PPT-Fuel poverty and disabled people: sustaining a warm home in the context of welfare reform

Aims Funded by Eaga Charitable Trust to investigate The existing evidence base on the relationship between fuel poverty and disabled people The needs of disabled people living in fuel poor . Justifying Disability Benefit Reforms. Libby . McEnhill. and Vicky Byrne. Institute . for Research in Citizenship and Applied Human . Sciences, University of Huddersfield . 1. Structure. T. he Welfare Reform Act (2012) and the media. Overview. Context – biggest shake up of welfare system since it was created. Potential Impact – significant problems with roll out mean in some areas . we are . still looking at potential rather than actual impact. American Free Enterprise. Chapter 3 Section 4. Key Terms. poverty threshold. :. an income level below that which is needed to support families and households. welfare. :. government aid to the poor. Landlord Forum . 1 July 2015. What is Fuel Poverty?. A household is in fuel poverty if it is on a low income and faces high costs of keeping adequately warm and . accessing other . basic energy services. . Justifying Disability Benefit Reforms. Libby . McEnhill. and Vicky Byrne. Institute . for Research in Citizenship and Applied Human . Sciences, University of Huddersfield . 1. Structure. T. he Welfare Reform Act (2012) and the media. – Update and future developments. There for You . Welfare Seminar . Croyde. . Getting Households Out of Fuel Poverty. Oliver Rothwell. Marches Energy Agency. Award . winning social . enterprise and charity . Train, educate, inspire, challenge, in the field of . energy . efficiency . When the B. everidge Report was published in 1942, its recommendations amounted to a comprehensive attack on what Beveridge called the ‘five giants standing in the way of social progress’. He identified Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness as the main problems facing post war society.. poverty. The . role of partnership working. Christine Liddell. Professor of Psychology. Households who are in deepest fuel poverty. Northern Ireland survey of high risk areas . 2,145 participants . from 18 of 26 Council areas in NI. Warm & . Well . . Ruth Davey . Partnerships Coordinator. Email: warmandwell@severnwye.org.uk. Severn Wye Energy Agency. Not for profit organisation. Registered educational charity. Work . with schools, businesses, communities and . How is the public health sector tackling the symptoms and causes of fuel poverty ?. R. egulatory framework in the UK. Examples of good practice – England and Northern Ireland. Jenny Saunders and Pat Austin NEA. Overview. Context – biggest shake up of welfare system since it was created. Potential Impact – significant problems with roll out mean in some areas . we are . still looking at potential rather than actual impact. William Baker, Consumer Focus. Understanding fuel poverty. Emergence of ‘energy poverty’ in EU. single liberalised market. accession of former Soviet Union states. rising energy prices, cost of addressing climate change. Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ethiopia By Habtamu Fuje Fuel subsidy reform • Increased diesel prices Indirect channels: • Distribution cost Grain prices • Low in remote rural distric