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Delays, denials, debt and the growing privatization of Medicare

Medicare Advantage enrollees report treatment denials and delays in payment, leading to harmful outcomes in healthcare

The Guardian - US

Syrian father with traumatic brain injury repeatedly refused disability benefits

Exclusive: The 27-year-old is partially blind, has lost hearing in the right ear, and cannot leave the house unless in a wheelchair

The Independent UK

Researchers find a single, surprising gene behind a disorder that causes intellectual disability

Scientists have found the genetic root of a disorder that causes intellectual disability, which they estimate affects as many as one in 20,000 young people

The Independent UK

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How Micron’s powerful disability ERG improved accessibility standards for the whole company

The semiconductor manufacturer's Capable ERG helped create a global disability accessibility standard for its workplaces.

Fortune

Burnt out? This is how your employer can help you return to work for the better

The working world can be a pitiless one, as competition in the marketplace can put significant pressures on employees. Relentless deadlines, shrinking resources and shifting priorities all take their toll on employees’ well-being and mental health. In my home country of Belgium, more than two thirds (66.4%) of individuals on…

The Conversation

Stewart McGough obituary

Other lives: Architect concerned with disability access who provided design expertise during the London 2012 Olympics

The Guardian - UK

Deaf man awarded £50,000 damages after mistreatment by jobcentre officials

Tribunal rules Paul Rimmer was subject to ‘character assassination’ and was not given specialist help

The Guardian - UK

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China Wheelchair Users Claim Outdoors With Hand-cranked Bikes

Speeding along crumbling roads past dusty villages and herds of sheep, a team of cyclists turns heads in China's Inner Mongolia with their unusual equipment.

International Business Times

Mad Max: Fury Road was a pioneering portrayal of disability. Furiosa is a letdown

Furiosa, the latest instalment of the Mad Max franchise, has arrived a decade after the release of George Miller’s groundbreaking reboot Fury Road (2015).

The Conversation

Major Financial Benefits for Military Veterans and Their Families

These financial support programs help military veterans and their families with home loans, disability and survivor benefits and more.

Kiplinger

‘It feels like contempt’: DWP tells 85-year-old dementia patient to repay £13k

Cypriot-born Sia Kasparis, who speaks limited English, was not told about disability premium overpayment for several years

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Romeo & Juliet; Richard III; Passing Strange review – no fault in these stars

Jamie Lloyd’s youthfully intense staging gives us a Juliet for the ages; Michelle Terry’s king rises above the disability row; and the European premiere of a Broadway musical rocks but doesn’t soar

The Guardian - UK

'Party is over': crackdown on costly NDIS plan rorts

The government has vowed to stamp out unscrupulous NDIS providers encouraging participants to spend their funding too quickly and on non-disability supports.

AAP

Assisted dying legislation will not harm disabled people

Letters: Charles Warlow and Prof Ben Colburn respond to an interview with Liz Carr who campaigns against assisted dying

The Guardian - UK

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Promise of NDIS 'under threat', commissioner warns

Australia's disability discrimination commissioner has slammed proposed changes to the NDIS, saying it would reduce participants to their impairment.

The Guardian - UK

Inquiry to begin into DWP’s treatment of ill and disabled people on benefits

Some eligibility decisions have been linked to deaths of vulnerable claimants, and EHRC will examine if ministers acted unlawfully

The Independent UK

Richard Whitehead says Paralympians should be in the spotlight for longer

The two-time champion believes disability is “lagging behind” other minority groups.

The Guardian - UK

‘The level of hate was dangerous’: Michelle Terry on the backlash to her casting as Richard III

Artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe says much of the anger about a non-disabled actor playing the role has been misogynistic

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Newcastle Herald

Last-minute disability service funding decision 'No way of doing business'

Disability service providers' long wait on funding grants outcome

Evening Standard

Richard Whitehead backs calls for Paralympic Games to return to London as new portraits unveiled

The gold medallist says there is ‘a long way to go’ in boosting the profile of disabled sport, and access to it

Bored Panda

Dad Annoyed He Has To Pick Up Adult Daughter, She Reminds Him He’s A Parent To A Disabled Child

Disabled woman whose dad said he gets annoyed at having to drive her around told him he just has to live with it. The post Dad Annoyed He Has To Pick Up Adult Daughter, She Reminds Him He’s A Parent To A Disabled Child first appeared on Bored Panda.

Evening Standard

'Terrified' London family evicted from home on day daughter started exams

A single mother of four, whose son has a disability and whose daughter was sitting GCSE exams, has been evicted from her Merton house

The National (Scotland)

Universal Credit and other claimants to receive early DWP payment this week

DWP Universal Credit, PIP, and other benefit claimants may find their payments dates change this week

International Business Times

Paralympics Should Put Disability Back On Global Agenda, Says IPC Chief

The Paris Paralympics are expected to give the movement the biggest boost since the mould-breaking 2012 London Games - and organisers hope they will help to move the rights of disabled people to the top of the list of global priorities.

The Conversation

Why autistic people must be at the heart of autism research

When the term “social model of disability” was coined by British sociologist Mike Oliver in 1983, it helped form the basis of the disability rights movement.

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