Disability advocates fight DOGE cuts

Disability advocates fight DOGE cuts

Cuts are already making it harder for people with disabilities to live in their communities

Americares Appoints Disability Advocate Shweta Rawat To Board

Americares, a leading health-focused relief and development organization, announced the appointment of Shweta Rawat to its Board of Directors. Rawat, founder and chairperson of the Hans Foundation, has extensive experience in social impact program development, philanthropy, and advocacy.As a champion for disability inclusion, women’s leadership, and economic empowerment, Rawat has supported Americares for more than a decade. Her organization, th…

Advocates defend exclusion of quotas from disability rights legislation - Barbados Today

Debate on its omission of mandatory employment quotas for people with disabilities under the landmark Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, took another turn on Thursday with a sharp pushback against critics who argue that the legislation falls short of addressing high joblessness among disabled citizens.   One of the lawmakers who helped pass the legislation, Edmund Hinkson, defended the decision to exclude employment quotas from the law ami…

'The wrong way to go' - Colchester politicians react to disability cuts

COLCHESTER residents and politicians have had their say on Labour’s plan to save billions in welfare including proposed disability cuts.

Duration of reading 3 minutesA flat amount for people with disabilities is deducted as allowances from the income to be taxed. All people who have a degree of disability (GdB) of at least 20 receive it. What is the flat amount? The flat amount depends on the degree of disability. It starts at GdB 20 with 384 euros per year, is at GdB 30 with 620 euros, at GdB 40 with 860 euros, at GdB 50 with 1,140 euros, at GdB 60 with 1,440 euros and at GdB 70…