PM criticised for personal independence payment review amid ‘spiralling’ disability welfare bill

The PM wants to strip GPs of power to issue sick notes but Labour says he has run out of ideas.

Closure of Work and Health Programme comes hard on heels of Rishi Sunak’s bid to end the UK’s supposed ‘sicknote’ culture

The Disabled People's Manifesto for the General Election in 2024, by a coalition of DPOs and disabled-led groups (DPO Forum England)

Labour has broken its promise to implement the UN disability convention into UK law if it wins the next general election, according to confidential party policy documents. The party was insisting u…

Hannah Cockroft says disabled people in Britain are being "almost criminalised" in the way they are treated.

Straight out of the 2010 playbook, the party’s plan to force disabled people into work is pure performative cruelty, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Benefit payments are "too low" to cover daily living costs and the government must act to increase financial support, MPs have found.

More than 60,000 people in England faced debt collection over home care last year, BBC research finds.

The UN has blasted the Government's record on disabled peoples' rights at a recent meeting in Geneva

Sunak's Government has been called to face a UN committee over the shocking conditions faced by some disabled people after years of austerity

Johnny Timpson says he wants to ‘take a stand’ after revelations thousands of unpaid carers are being forced to pay huge fines

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) should not have stopped the benefits of a disabled man who later starved to death, an updated safeguarding review has found after being shown information …

More than 20 disability and welfare rights organisations and charities have told MPs that a new legal duty must be introduced to force the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to safeguard the we…

The changes, affecting hundreds of thousands of people from 2025, would save £4bn in welfare payments.

Bristol's Fair and Affordable Care Policy and Social Care charges could have a major effect on your life. How can we campaign for change?

Jeremy Hunt also confirms the national living wage will rise as he makes his speech to party conference.

Michael Gove asked about Boris Johnson suggestion package to protect people with disabilities should be prepared ‘in slower time’

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has warned the UK government over its disability benefits system.

In today’s newsletter: ‘Demoting’ the role of minister for disabled people says a lot about the Conservative party’s priorities, says Frances Ryan

There are concerns that lowering the threshold for someone to be considered fit to work could see vulnerable people unfairly penalised and hit by benefit sanctions if they do not move into employment

Rishi Sunak denies it: but the government’s own figures tell us how the country’s health has been afflicted by austerity, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

DJ Calvert needs help to get showered and dressed but his carer is withdrawn over a funding shortage.

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The chancellor knows the anguish the welfare system causes Disabled people – and he knows his reforms won’t help

Disabled people’s organisations will gather next month for a crucial national conference that will discuss their policy demands ahead of the next general election. The conference is being organised…

Transport watchdog London TravelWatch has today (Tuesday 31 October) published its objections to train company proposals to close ticket offices. Nine train companies announced plans to close station...

People with disabilities continue to face discrimination in the UK, says a report.

Prevent more people falling into fuel poverty by implementing a social energy tariff. An energy social tariff based on household income and household energy consumption could lift millions out of...

If the policy is applied some disabled people living at home could be transferred to care homes to help with council costs. | ITV News West Country

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There has been a dramatic drop in public toilets in the UK. And it's impacting the disabled, homeless and vulnerable.

The government has unveiled its Disability Action Plan – but campaigners have said that the "proof will be in the pudding".

An organised gang has been prosecuted for the largest case of benefit fraud in history, but the DWP must not use this against claimants.

BBC newsreader tells women and equalities committee she was diagnosed with adenomyosis only after seeing private GP