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The Latest Breaking News from Disability

People on PIP, Adult Disability Payment or DLA could be due up to £691 every month tax-free

Full list of new weekly and monthly rates for disability benefits including devolved payments.

Daily Record

Blind man documents experience getting stuck in inaccessible hotel elevator

‘I don’t feel disabled when I fiddle around for stuff, but when things are inaccessible, I’m forced to live in my disability,’ singer Mario Bonds says

The Independent UK

People with any of these 21 health conditions may be due up to £172 each week

More than 540 health conditions are supported through Adult Disability Payment and PIP.

Daily Record

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Millions of households to see series of benefit payments rise from tomorrow

A wide variety of elements and Tax Credits will see an increase at the same rate of September's inflation

Manchester Evening News

Scottish benefits to be paid early this week due to Easter bank holidays

Payments of Adult Disability Payment and Scottish Child Payment could arrive early for some people.

Daily Record

Richard Whitehead: Too many disabled athletes are known for reality TV shows

The double gold medallist has called for change in the exposure successful disabled athletes are getting.

The Independent UK

People making new claim for PIP may see payment reduced if they are on certain other benefits

The overlapping benefit is always paid in full and PIP or ADP is reduced by the amount of the overlapping benefit.

Daily Record

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People of State Pension age could be due every new cost of living payment worth up to £1,350

The first cost of living payment for £301 will start landing in bank accounts from April 25.

Daily Record

New DWP payment rates start this week for State Pension, PIP, Universal Credit and other benefits

HMRC has also confirmed the new payment rates and thresholds for Tax Credits.

Daily Record

The Paralympic classification system is unjust. It's time for an urgent overhaul

As the Paralympics has grown more popular, it has strayed from its fundamental purpose. Changes are needed to restore fairness for athletes with disability, dual Paralympic gold medal-winning cyclist Peter Brooks writes.

ABC News

Claim PIP for any of these gastrointestinal issues and you could be due up to £691 each month

Some 29,050 people are claiming PIP or ADP for 25 conditions including Crohn’s disease, Ulcerative Colitis and IBS.

Daily Record

Millions of Brits will start to receive £301 cost of living payment from NEXT WEEK

The money is the first of three instalments that make up the £900 cost of living payment, designed to help those on certain means-tested benefits cope with rising bills

Daily Mirror

Disability service faces action over woman's burn death

The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission has started civil penalty proceedings against LiveBetter Services Limited.

AAP

Industry leaders push for government, employers to boost work outcomes for people living with disability

Industry leaders are calling on all tiers of government and the private sector to do more to boost the employment participation rate for people living with disability.

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The Independent UK

Voters with disabilities often overlooked in voting battles

Advocates for the disabled say access for voters with disabilities remains a challenge at polling places throughout the United States

Belfast Live

DWP confirms who will get spring cost of living payments

Households across the country claiming means-tested benefits will automatically receive the first payment this month

The Guardian - AU

Ageing and the mortality alarm: ‘I started panicking about future me’

The moment you realise you are entering your ageing years is confronting, especially if you still feel young. Might that burst of anxiety be a door into a different kind of old age?

Irish Mirror

Larissa Nolan: 'With celebrities sharing their autism diagnoses, it’s coming across more as a gift than a disability'

'The vast majority of the diagnoses today are at the lower end of the spectrum – whereas previously they were only made in severe cases of 'classic' autism. But have we widened the spectrum to be so broad it is now meaningless?'

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Glasgow Live

Glaswegians could be entitled to more money as 12 government benefit rates increasing

There's a number of benefits included in the 10.1 per cent increase which comes into effect from Saturday, April 1, and they include the adult disability payment and winter heating payment

Nottingham Post

DWP health conditions most likely to lead to £172 PIP payment

From April 10, a successful claim for PIP or ADP is worth between £26.90 and £172.75 each week in additional financial support

ABC News

Disability advocate Tilly Aston fought for blind and low-vision people to 'hold their own' in a prejudiced society

A by-election being held in the federal seat named after Tilly Aston is garnering attention from far and wide, but the story of how she improved the lives of many thousands of blind and vision-impaired people has been lost to time.

The Guardian - UK

Lady Masham of Ilton obituary

Tireless disability campaigner, Paralympian and longest-serving female member of the Lords

Glasgow Live

Glasgow disability groups 'not being listening to' on street design

A Labour councillor has claimed a forum, set up to get feedback on plans such as cycle paths, has been 'very heated' as council officials aren't listening.

Daily Record

PIP health conditions most-likely to be given a weekly payment of up to £172 from DWP

A new claim for PIP or Adult Disability Payment could help with daily living or mobility costs.

Nottingham Post

DWP benefits changed in April 2023 including Universal Credit, pensions and income support

What you will get paid after April 10 when the rates are set to rise

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