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When Assistance Programs Update for the New Year, These Income Thresholds Quietly Shift

Every January, millions of Americans receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to their Social Security or disability benefits. While that extra money is meant to help with inflation, it can quietly push recipients over the income limits for key assistance programs. From food stamps to Medicaid, these programs update their income…

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MPs warn some disability claimants waiting more than a year for claims to be processed, damning report finds

Disabled claimants have come to expect ‘reliably poor service’ from the DWP, scathing review finds

The Independent UK

Illness is more than just biological – medical sociology shows how social factors get under the skin and cause disease

Health and medicine is more than just biological – societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical sociologists like me study these forces by treating society itself as our laboratory. Health and illness are our experiments in uncovering meaning, power and inequality, and how it affects all…

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Disability worker accused of causing patient's death

A disability worker has been charged over the death of a man in a house fire at an assisted living facility nearly five years ago.

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Paralympian Dani Aravich Says Her SKIMS x Team USA Collab Campaign "Means Everything"

"I am always proud to represent this disability community, and be a voice and advocate in the space."

Marie Claire

Thousands left dead or disabled due to shortage of stroke specialists, medics warn

A lack of specialist consultants in NHS hospitals is leaving stroke patients without essential care, experts have warned

The Independent UK

Scientists find remarkable link between healthy teeth and longer life

Frail oral health can reflect poor overall health in ageing people

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Shortage of NHS stroke specialists resulting in thousands dead or disabled, say doctors

Exclusive: Lack of consultants in UK health service means patients do not get drugs or surgery in time, say senior medics

The Guardian - UK

Centuries-old 'trophy head' from Peru reveals individual survived to adulthood despite disabling birth defect

A researcher has documented a cleft lip in an ancient mummified head from the Andes, a condition that may have been seen as a "blessing" rather than a disability.

LiveScience

Asda Pays Four-Figure Sum After Delivery Driver Told Disabled Customer 'You Don't Look Disabled'

Necati Ayhan, 22, receives a four-figure payout after an Asda delivery driver questioned his fibromyalgia disability, saying, 'You don't look disabled to me'.

International Business Times UK

Campaigner turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities

Exclusive: In letter declining proposed award, Tressa Burke, CEO of Glasgow Disability Alliance, accused government of ‘fuelling hatred’

The Guardian - UK

More than 700,000 disability benefits claimants transferred to devolved agency

Social Security Scotland now provides the vast majority of the payments north of the border.

Evening Standard

Disabled people in England ‘betrayed’ by cuts to new-build accessibility targets

Campaigners decry plan to reduce requirement for improved standards from 100% down to 40% of new homes

The Guardian - UK

Female, Breastfeed, Black & More: Trump Blocks 200 Words From Head Start Applications

Court documents show the Trump administration told Head Start providers to remove nearly 200 words like female, women, and disability from funding requests.

International Business Times UK

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Just 2 in 3 patients are treated on time in emergency departments. Check how your public hospital performs

If you arrive at an emergency department (ED) today, you’ll be triaged. That’s a quick judgement about how urgently you need care. Those in crisis are seen quickly, while others may wait hours.

International Business Times UK

Trump Proposes Slashing Disability Rights Lawyers as Advocates Warn Communities 'In Harm's Way'

Trump admin plans to cut disability rights legal funding from $148M to $69M in 2026, as DOJ lawyers quit or shift. Advocates warn vulnerable Americans risk losing protection from discrimination.

The Guardian - UK

‘You just feel so light!’: two wheelchair users – one 81, one 25 – on welfare cuts, housing and the joy of swimming

Technology has improved since the 50s and in the last five or six years especially, there has been a lot of progress. But the world is still too often designed without wheelchair users in mind

The Independent UK

Trump lawyers argue president being forced to use sign language interpreters could hurt his ‘image’

The Justice Department has appealed a November order requiring interpreters at many events

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40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations—but it’s become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate

Colleges are seeing unprecedented demand for disability accommodations as Gen Z faces continued struggles with mental health—and a desire to find new ways to succeed with the tools they’ve been given.

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Billionaire Palantir cofounder calls elite college undergrads a ‘loser generation’ as data reveals rise in students seeking support for disabilities

As top universities report a surge in students seeking disability accommodations, Stanford alum Joe Lonsdale warns founders to steer clear of grads using the status as a “leg up.”

Roll Call

Lawyers say new CDC policy may violate federal disability law - Roll Call

HHS policy would strip CDC supervisors of the ability to approve telework reasonable accommodation requests.

The Independent UK

Turner Prize winner celebrated by charity for ‘long overdue’ win

Scottish artist communicates with limited verbal expression, is the first artist with a learning disability to win the prestigious prize

Evening Standard

Disability charity praises autistic Nnena Kalu’s ‘long overdue’ Turner Prize win

Sense described the 59-year-old’s victory as ‘incredibly significant’.

The Independent UK

Supreme Court hears Alabama death penalty case for man with intellectual disability

Joseph Clifton Smith, 55, has been on death row roughly half his life

The Guardian - UK

Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’

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