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'Yellowstone' actor charged with disability payment fraud

Officials say “Yellowstone” actor Q’Orianka Kilcher has been charged with illegally collecting nearly $97,000 in disability benefits while working on the TV show

The Independent UK

Not just ramps and doorways – disability housing is about choosing where, how and who you live with

Home ownership among young people is falling sharply, while renters face worrying insecurity. Nowhere is this more pronounced than for the 4.4 million Australians living with a disability and, in particular, the 660,000 plus Australians with an intellectual disability.

The Conversation

Long-COVID sufferers unable to access disability payments say they need more support

Australians with long COVID have had their lives turned upside down, but there is very little support or relief available. Sufferers say that needs to change.

ABC News

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NDIS failed in remote areas, inquiry told

The disability royal commission has been told the National Disability Insurance Scheme has failed in remote Indigenous communities.

AAP

Cost of living payment: exactly how much you'll get and when you'll get it

Millions will start getting money into their accounts later this week

Wales Online

Tory leadership candidates’ voting records - from Brexit to taxation

What have Boris Johnson's potential replacements voted for

Evening Standard

Migraine sufferers have treatment choices – a neurologist explains options beyond just pain medication

Migraine headaches currently affect more than one billion people across the globe and are the second-leading cause of disability worldwide. Nearly one-quarter of U.S. households have at least one member who suffers from migraines. An estimated 85.6 million workdays are lost as a result of migraine headaches each year.

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NHS worker 28, in wheelchair from chronic pain survives on £700 a month disability allowance

Georgy Hibbert, 28, of Epsom, Surrey, who has launched a GoFundMe said she can no longer "remember being pain free," adding: "It’s been a constant living nightmare."

Daily Mirror

New benefit replacing PIP in seven areas this month aims to get award decisions right first time

Existing PIP claimants will start to transfer to the new benefits system this summer.

Daily Record

DWP updates £326 cost of living eligibility to ‘improve clarity’ as first payments start this week

Millions of people receiving seven types of benefits will see payments land in bank accounts from July 14.

Daily Record

Indigenous boy featured in NDIS promotional material placed in state care after funding cut

Disability royal commission begins hearings in Alice Springs focused on NDIS for First Nations people

The Guardian - AU

Cost of living payments you're entitled to as families struggle to make ends meet

A number of initiatives have been announced by the Government to help people who are having financial difficulties, including an energy discount and cost of living payments

Chronicle Live

CQC highlights 'unsafe' staffing issues at Hebburn NHS unit for people with learning disabilities and autism

The region's biggest mental health and learning disability NHS trust has been forced to implement a "robust action plan" after criticism of services at Rose Lodge in Hebburn.

Chronicle Live

The cost of living payments you're entitled to as bills soar

The UK Government is offering some cash to many people struggling with the cost of living

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Disabled Indigenous boy in NDIS 'stolen'

A teen was forced to leave home once his support funds were slashed, the disability royal commission has heard.

The Independent UK

Florida woman accused of hiding mother’s body in freezer so she could keep receiving her disability checks

Autopsy revealed Marie Hoskins died from natural causes and was dead for around two weeks before her body was placed inside the freezer

Tribune News Service

Florida woman kept mother’s body in freezer so she could collect disability checks, police say

A Florida woman allegedly kept her dead mother’s body on ice for weeks so she could keep cashing the elderly woman’s disability checks.

Daily Mirror

Disabled TikTok star lifts lid on horrendous jokes and messages she can now laugh off

Shelby Lynch uses her platform to share snippets of living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, with 440,000 followers and aims to change the perception of disabled people

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The Guardian - UK

‘They gave her a bed to die in’: family of woman with Down’s Syndrome denied intensive care seek answers from Covid-19 inquiry

Susan Sullivan’s hospital records suggest she was denied potentially life-saving treatment because of her disability. Now her family are demanding answers

Daily Mirror

Cost of living payments: What to do if you don't get first half of £650 this week

Consumer rights champion Martyn James has explained everything you need to know about all the cost of living payments - including what to do if you don't start to receive any cash from next week

Daily Mirror

Secret inquiry launched into deaths of 140 disability claimants under Boris Johnson

The probes are linked to deaths associated with actions from the Department of Work and Pensions and are so private that even families are not told of the findings

ABC News

From radio to TV to books, Elaine Harris refuses to be pigeonholed for her lack of sight

Elaine Harris is reluctant to call herself a trailblazer. After all, she's just a hardworking broadcaster and writer who just so happens to also be blind. But her work with ABC did make a difference for those who came after her.

ABC News

Netflix hit Stranger Things slammed for using Nazi prison and brutal asylum in new series

Netflix has used sites of past atrocities as locations or inspiration for its nostalgic hit show Stranger Things — including a plan to let fans book a themed cell in a former holocaust prison on Airbnb.

Daily Mirror

Universal Credit claimants could be eligible for another benefit worth £624 a month

Around three million Brits are already receiving this additional cash, available to any claimant who needs help due to a mental health condition such as anxiety, stress or depression, disability or illness

The Guardian - AU

Welfare penalties paused after new Workforce Australia app struggles to cope

Welfare recipients say they have been unable to log on to the new app to log job search efforts required to maintain their benefits

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