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Young people caring for someone with a health condition could be due annual payment worth nearly £360

The Young Carer Grant is for Scots aged 16, 17 or 18 who provide up to 16 hours of care each week.

Daily Record

Disability campaigners hit out at ‘unacceptable’ 500 closures in a year of Tube lifts that were working

Five-fold annual increase in time lifts taken out of service on London Underground as a safety precaution – despite being in working order

Evening Standard

UK's most accessible beaches ranked including Bournemouth, Brighton and Weymouth

The accessibility of UK beaches was judged based on their Disability Rights UK Survey score, how much a wheelchair costs to hire, and the cost of disabled toilet access

Daily Mirror

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Older people with any of these 57 health issues could be due up to £407 each month

More than 1.4million older people are receiving extra financial help through Attendance Allowance from the DWP.

Daily Record

North East NHS Trust to host recruitment day in Morpeth, to show people their job and training opportunities

The Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest providers of mental health and learning disability services

Chronicle Live

The government says NDIS supports should be 'evidence-based' – but can they be?

The federal government and National Cabinet has committed to rebooting and fixing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for people with disabilities. It plans to invest more in the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), which administers the scheme, and drive change to support participants better.

The Conversation

Dis Life: How can you be Disabled if you can’t be diagnosed with a disability?

It's incomprehensible that the North Yorkshire and York Health and Care Partnership is removing access to autism and ADHD assessment and diagnoses for adults

Daily Mirror

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Top Golfers With Disabilities To Compete In Inaugural G4D Open

The Duchess Course at Woburn Golf Club in England will host the 54-hole stroke play event

Golf Monthly

People with any of these five health conditions may be due up to £691 each month

Over 540 conditions are supported through Adult Disability Payment and PIP.

Daily Record

Politics with Michelle Grattan: NDIA chair Kurt Fearnley on 'fundamental' reform of the disability scheme

The federal government is trying to contain the exploding cost of the landmark National Disability Insurance Scheme – especially difficult given the fears of vulnerable people who rely on it.

The Conversation

Six-year-old exposed to dirty needles in Griffith accessible toilet, sparking debate on keys

The floor was littered with used needles, but disability access advocates say a special key may be the solution to stopping vandals and drug users from littering bathrooms.

ABC News

Alicia has lived with long COVID for a year and she's one of a growing number who say they are now disabled

In Australia, long COVID is not automatically classified as disability, but advocates want that to change.

ABC News

Brits claiming DWP disability benefits issued £1,122 cost of living warning

Scope found that disabled households need to find an extra £12,000 a year to achieve the same standard of living compared to non-disabled households due to the cost of living crisis

Daily Mirror

New cost of living support for people claiming disability benefits to be debated by MPs this month

MPs will debate proposals in two petitions calling for the £650 payment and an energy grant for people on disability benefits.

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Nottingham Post

DWP PIP and DLA claimants issued monthly cost of living warning

A charity has called for action tackle the additional costs of living with a disability

Daily Mirror

Full list of 56 health conditions which could make you eligible to claim £400 a month from DWP

Attendance Allowance is one of the DWP's most underclaimed benefits with around 3.4million people in the UK eligible to claim but not

Newcastle Herald

Disability support pensioners only just 'scraping' by in private rentals

"We applied for a hundred different places and ended up in a tent."

The Canberra Times

Barr, Davidson at odds on NDIS spending targets

The ACT's Disability Minister is against the proposed target.

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The Times of India

DNA repository in Pune has proved vital in ascertaining identity of victims of on field accidents: Armed forces medical chief

PUNE: The DNA repository at the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) in Pune has been used successfully so far in 12 cases to ascertain the identities of the officers and men who died in action or in accidents on field.

Irish Mirror

Man loses discrimination claim after calling vet receptionist ‘horrible human being’ in Covid mask row

At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), the man admitted that he may have called the receptionist 'a horrible human being' or an 'ignorant human'

Wales Online

DWP explains the 57 health conditions that qualify you for over £400 a month in attendance allowance

Millions of people are entitled to the money

Daily Record

New PIP plans include sharing health assessment report with claimant before award decision is made

DWP said PIP claimants will be able to ‘clarify evidence’ so that it can make the right decision as early as possible.

Bristol Post

DWP explains if PIP claimants get new £900 cost of living payments

The initial £301 pay out is being given to people who currently receive benefits

The Conversation

NDIS cost scrutiny is intensifying again – the past shows this can harm health and wellbeing for people with disability

Those in the disability field have been expressing a sense of whiplash since Friday. Many had felt buoyed by reassurances from Bill Shorten, minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), at the National Press Club the previous week that a reboot would ensure the scheme was “here to stay”.…

The Guardian - AU

If Labor bulldozes ahead with NDIS cuts that hurt disabled people, we will fight against it

The disability community feels blindsided by the government’s announcement of a growth cap on the scheme. We need to be included in decisions that affect us

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