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Small changes could bridge communication and cultural gaps for people from refugee backgrounds who need disability support

People with disability and their family members from non-English speaking refugee backgrounds come up against language and communication barriers when they try to access services, including the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

The Conversation

Senators seek to clear procedural hurdles on unfinished business

Senate leaders are looking to clear legislation that would expand veterans health and disability benefits after passing a semiconductor manufacturing incentives and science package, but getting both bipartisan priorities done next week will require cooperation from all 100 senators.

Tribune News Service

Meet the Rockets, the all-abilities Australian rules team changing lives and a community

For more than a decade, one Aussie rules team in regional Victoria has ensured all players are included in the experience, no matter their abilities.

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New disability payment replacing PIP will include ‘informal observations’ during the consultation

Applications for Adult Disability Payment will open in Fife, Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Moray, North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire or South Ayrshire on July 25.

Daily Record

Legacy benefit claimants can lose transitional payment protection after managed migration to Universal Credit

DWP shares three ways transitional protection can be terminated.

Daily Record

Claim PIP for these gastrointestinal conditions and you could get up to £627 each month from DWP

More than 25,360 people across the UK are claiming PIP for 25 conditions including Coeliac disease, Crohn’s disease and IBS.

Daily Record

DWP provides up to £156 each week for 384,000 people with these 70 neurological conditions

Thousands of people across the UK are receiving between £97.80 and £627.60 every four weeks through PIP.

Daily Record

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Love Island's Tasha crying a lot due to hidden side of disability, says her dad

Over the last few months, Love Island viewers have watched Tasha struggle with her emotions - most recently after the Snog, Marry, Pie challenge

Daily Mirror

Shortages put disability patients at risk

Disability workers are reporting being asked to postpone their leave and work excessive overtime to deal with staff shortages, exacerbated by COVID furloughs.

AAP

Ask Anna: Disability Pride Month questions about dating disclosures and resuming kinky lifestyles

July is Disability Pride Month — not to be confused with Disability Awareness Month, which is in March. DPM celebrates the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which ensures that people with disabilities have the same rights and protections as their abled counterparts.

Tribune News Service

India Sasha: NI TikToker and disability-rights activist's amazing success over past year

India says when she was younger she never saw anyone on the red carpet with a limb disability like her - but she has become 'that girl'

Belfast Live

DWP: Who is getting the Cost of Living payment in Nottinghamshire

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Nottingham Post

‘I see price rises of 25-50%’: how inflation is affecting people with a disability or illness

With the rate at 9.4%, UK households are feeling the pressure of the cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

Those on benefits in Lanarkshire council qualify for 40 hours free driving lessons this summer

Learner drivers will still need to pay for the costs of the theory and practical driving tests

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Claim PIP for migraines or headaches and you could get up to £627 each month from DWP

More than 1,480 people with dizziness are also receiving between £24.45 and £156.90 each week.

Glasgow Live

DWP benefits claimants can get 40 hours free driving lessons this summer

People in receipt of certain benefits from the DWP may be able to get up to 40 hours of free driving lessons through the Motability Driving Lessons Grant Programme

Daily Record

DWP rejects call to increase PIP and other disability benefits in line with inflation before next April

The rate of inflation rose to 9.4% in June from 9.1% in May.

Daily Record

People on certain benefits may qualify for 40 hours free driving lessons this summer

Learner drivers will still need to pay for the costs of the theory and practical driving tests.

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Uber agrees to $2m settlement in lawsuit over violations of Americans with Disabilities act

‘People with disabilities should not be made to feel like second-class citizens or punished because of their disability’, DOJ says

Daily Mirror

'Being proud of my disability means being proud of myself and what I can do'

Faith Martin says disability is not a negative of life, as some people believe - and she asks other people, including accessibility campaigner Dermot Devlin, what makes them proud to be disabled

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Disabled music fans should not be stuck in special areas during concerts'

Anna Morell, from Disability Rights UK, says disabled people want to be in the thick of life, like everybody else, not stuck in special areas so far from the stage during music concerts

The Hindu

Army personnel entitled to disability pension only if disability attributable to military service: Supreme Court

A Bench of Justices was hearing an appeal filed by the Centre challenging an order of the Armed Forces Tribunal which granted disability pension to Army personnel

Daily Record

Older people with any of these health issues could be due up to £369 each month

Successful Attendance Allowance claimants will receive either £247.40 or £369.60 every four weeks.

Daily Record

New disability payment replacing PIP in seven council areas next week involves no private sector assessments

Applications for Adult Disability Payment will open in Fife, Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Moray, North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire or South Ayrshire on July 25.

ABC News

Lack of disability housing in outback Queensland prompts fears more families will move away

The Ballards love their life in outback Queensland – it has been their home for more than 60 years. But a lack of disability housing may force the family to move hundreds of kilometres away.

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