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Your mighty tendons help you sprint, jump and move – a genetic mutation in one key protein may increase athletic performance

The ability to move is an essential part of daily life. The locomotor, or musculoskeletal, system of the body consists of muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments, joints, cartilage and other connective tissue. Loss of motor function due to disease or injury can result in a lifetime of disability. In a rapidly…

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New disability benefit may be paid to some people at a daily rate instead of every four weeks

The daily rate of Adult Disability Payment is the equivalent to one-seventh of the weekly rate.

Daily Record

Second cost of living payment worth £324 due this autumn but no confirmed date yet

Millions of people are waiting on the payment window details to be announced.

Daily Record

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Lynn Schmidt: Disenfranchising real people with Missouri's new voter ID law

My adult daughter with a disability understands that most tasks are going to be harder for her to accomplish. Now she can add one more thing to her list: her fundamental right to vote.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

All the cost of living help available and how to get the payment

Poorer households are expected to be hardest-hit, while eldery people have reported having to choose between heating or eating

The Independent UK

Raghavendran’s peace mission flags off

A collector and a singer, Raghavendran V’s message is to not let disability stop you from achieving your dreams

The Hindu

List of DWP payments and money changes happening this week

We've rounded up the payment and money changes coming in this week

Liverpool Echo

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People of State Pension age may be due up to £600 heating bill help this winter

The £300 pensioner cost of living lump sum will be added to this year's Winter Fuel Payments in November and December.

Daily Record

Why suicide prevention support is crucial for people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a lifelong disability that affects the brain and body of people prenatally exposed to alcohol. New research is backing concerns raised by the FASD community about the high rates of suicidality among people with FASD.

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Disabled people are already cutting back on costs more than others – for many, the £150 cost of living payment won't do much to help

Even before the current cost of living crisis, disabled people were much more likely than non-disabled people to be in poverty and living on inadequate incomes. Now, spiralling living costs are adding to years of financial disadvantage. Our new analysis of YouGov survey data starkly illustrates the situation, showing that…

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Atai's New MDMA-Based EMP-01 Compound Moves Forward To The Clinical Stage

Atai Life Sciences' (NASDAQ: ATAI) wholly-owned subsidiary EmpathBio has received Medsafe central regulatory and the Health and Disability Ethics Committees (HDEC) approvals to begin participant enrollment in its Phase 1 trial of proprietary MDMA-based drug EMP-01

Benzinga

DWP could stop your State Pension or benefit payment if you do not report hospital stay this winter

Payments may be reduced or stopped if the relevant department is not notified, even if it's just one night.

Daily Record

10 major money changes in October including energy bill discount and benefits

All households need to be aware of these financial changes coming into force in October, including the new £2,500 energy price freeze

Chronicle Live

11 important money dates in October that will change your finances

Bills are going up, mortgages may go up, new inflation rates will be announced and Government payments are being made

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From Universal Credit to PIP - the DWP benefit payments and money changes due this week

Here is a round-up of the changes you can expect to see including the Administration Earnings Threshold and cost of living payments

Daily Mirror

Ten key money changes coming in October including new £2,500 energy price freeze

We round up ten financial changes you need to be aware of in October, as the cost of living crisis continues to squeeze household budgets and pile pressure on Brits

Manchester Evening News

DWP's list of payments and money changes due this week

Those on Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment and Attendance Allowance will be impacted

Bristol Post

DWP payments and money changes this week

From a Cost of Living disability payment and Household Support Fund, to the deadline for trading in your paper £20 and £50 notes

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A disabled NDIA chair is a great first move in the NDIS reset. Here's what should happen next

The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has a new chair and for the first time it is a disabled person – former paralympian Kurt Fearnley. His appointment, along with that of two new directors, Graeme Innes (former disability discrimination commissioner) and Maryanne Diamond (Australian Network on Disability board member), brings…

Daily Record

PIP providing 35,000 people with diabetes across the UK with up to £627 each month

A successful claim for PIP is worth between £97.80 and £627.60 every four weeks.

ABC News

Young people with disability great candidates to fill jobs during national labour shortage, advocates say

Working-aged people living with disability are two times as likely to be unemployed as those without disabilities. Advocates say there is no better time than now to change that.

The Independent UK

All the cost of living help available and how to get the payment

Poorer households are expected to be hardest-hit, while eldery people have reported having to choose between heating or eating

Daily Record

New petition calling for DWP to conduct full review of PIP health assessments due official response

The online petition has already received more than 10,450 signatures of support from across the UK.

Nottingham Post

8 most asked questions on DWP cost of living payments

The Department has answered them all

Chronicle Live

DWP says 'vast majority' of £150 cost of living payments coming this week

All disabled people eligible to receive the extra money should be paid by early October, says newsletter

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