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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

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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

Wales Online

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.

AAP

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

The Independent UK

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.

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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

Daily Mirror

‘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

The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Mirror

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.

ABC News

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

Daily Mirror

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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

WEKU

The Wisconsin Supreme Court says ballot drop boxes aren't allowed in the state

The decision lays out ground rules for absentee voting a month ahead of Wisconsin's statewide primary elections.

Daily Mirror

'Yes, disabled people enjoy sex -too but the subject still makes some nervous'

Writer Penny Pepper speaks candidly about sex as a disabled person - beginning when she asked a childhood pal about her experiences during a hospital visit when she was 14

Glasgow Live

Over 60,000 DWP Attendance Allowance claimants could be due money back

According to new research about the Department for Work and Pensions, approximately £230 million of the Attendance Allowance benefit has been underpaid to claimants

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Nottingham Post

DWP could owe money to thousands due to underpayment of benefit

An estimated £230 million was not paid out

Liverpool Echo

UEFA treating disabled fans as 'afterthought' in Champions League final review

Disability access charity Level Playing Field said fans are "sick and tired" of being "under prioritised"

Daily Mirror

Eight commonly held beliefs about disabled people debunked as mere myths

These (mis)understandings contribute massively to the ableism and poor treatment of disabled folk, which often results in individuals being treated as though they are nothing more than their disability

Daily Record

More than 60,475 older people claiming Attendance Allowance could be due money back from DWP

Thousands of pensioners across the UK have been underpaid by an estimated £230 million.

The Guardian - UK

Magic Weekend loaded with possibility for playoffs and relegation

The 15th Magic Weekend will throw the spotlight on learning disability teams and green initiatives while St Helens continue their push for the title

The Guardian - AU

‘This was indignity’: passenger with disability left without wheelchair at Sydney airport

‘We were left completely alone, I couldn’t find anyone at all,’ says wife of man living with severe spinal cord damage

Daily Mirror

Disabled Coronation Street star reveals prejudice from taxi drivers, doctors and public

Cherylee Houston, 47 - who plays Izzy Armstrong in Coronation Street - writes candidly about her experiences of disability as part of the Mirror's Disabled Britain: Doing It For Ourselves series

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