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Detainees with disabilities in 'spiral of hopelessness' after cancelled United Nations visit to Australia

Advocates are concerned people with disability in detention settings across Australia have been forgotten following the cancelled visit of an international torture prevention group.

ABC News

Pensioner's shock bill lets slip that thousands have no effective protection on heating costs

Karen Butler-Lynch, who lives on disability allowance, and pensioner Anette Manning went to the Commission of Regulation for Utilities, when they got a €815 heating bill for a four week period

Dublin Live

Nearly half a million people of State Pension age claiming PIP worth up to £627 each month

A successful claim for PIP or Adult Disability Payment made before reaching retirement age will continue.

Daily Record

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Texas executes Arthur Brown Jr. for Houston slayings despite claims of innocence, intellectual disability

Brown’s appeals ran out after almost 30 years on death row. Defense attorneys claim Harris County prosecutors hid evidence pointing to another suspect in the 1992 shooting deaths of four people in a Houston drug house.

The Texas Tribune

Specific groups of people on benefits who will not receive £301 cost of living payment due this Spring

The first part of the £900 means-tested cost of living payment is due in the new financial year.

Daily Record

A Woman With A Disability Has Detailed Her Shitty Experience At Harry Styles’ Brisbane Concert

"To go in and be in a seat where I couldn't even see was very disappointing."

Pedestrian.tv

A Perth Family Was Nearly Deported Bc Their Son Has Down Syndrome How Is This Still A Thing?

The family was told their son's disability made him a "burden to the taxpayer". JFC.

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NDIS has 'failed' Aboriginal people with a disability

The Yoorrook Justice Commission, Victoria's first truth-telling inquiry, has heard how Indigenous people with a disability are not being adequately supported.

AAP

Harry Styles fan with a disability paid for reserved seats, but saw nothing. What are your rights when buying event tickets?

Norah Sweeney, who has a disability, paid extra for reserved seats to see Harry Styles perform — an emergency barrier blocked her view. When she asked for a refund she was denied. Here's what your rights are when buying concert tickets.

ABC News

Strangford Playing Fields to get new gates and paths for disability access

“For a long long time Strangford Playing Fields was mired in mud, and there was a rickety little gate"

Belfast Live

Baby Yoda a portrait of fluid disability

Sometimes Baby Yoda floats and sometimes walks. And no one questions it

Salon

Elon Musk apologizes after mocking Twitter worker with disability

Musk's attacks on the employee began after the worker asked for clarity about his job status at Twitter.

Axios

Elon Musk backtracks after mocking disabled Twitter worker in baffling sacking scandal

Elon Musk has apologised for speaking dismissively of Haraldur Thorleifsson's disability in a surreal exchange after the former Twitter employee tweeted the CEO to find out whether he had been fired or not

Daily Mirror

DWP Cold Weather Payment - another cash boost could be due as temperatures across Notts drop

The forecast for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire over the next few days could see temperatures as low as -3

Nottingham Post

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Wales Online

What needs to happen for you to get your £25 Cold Weather Payments as temperatures drop

A blanket of snow has covered Wales as temperatures dropped but eligibility for the payments is complicated

Daily Mirror

Paralympian Claire Cashmore opens up on disability as she explains turning point

Paralympic gold medallist Claire Cashmore - who transitioned to Paratriathlon from swimming after the Rio Games - has become the person she is thanks to sport as she shares her experience on International Women's Day

WEKU

Elon Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off Twitter employee with disability

The billionaire owner of Twitter apologized after publicly questioning a Twitter employee's query about whether he had been laid off and speaking dismissively of that employee's disability.

Al Jazeera

Elon Musk apologises after mocking disabled ex-Twitter employee

Twitter CEO had questioned former staffer about his work, disability and need for accommodations.

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The Guardian - US

New York mayor’s message to bodegas: ban shoppers who won’t remove masks

Spokesman for city’s corner stores defends plan as disability advocates say it breaks federal law

ABC News

Aneesh family facing deportation because of son's Down syndrome allowed to stay after minister intervenes

The parents of a little boy living with Down syndrome speak of their joy after the immigration minister intervened to stop their deportation.

ABC News

Elon Musk apologises after mocking laid-off Twitter worker, questioning his disability

Elon Musk apologises to a laid-off employee after publicly calling into question his disability and need for special working conditions.

Daily Record

People claiming PIP never need to tell DWP about any of these six changes in their circumstances

Not every change in circumstances will affect your entitlement to PIP which is worth up to £627 each month.

The Conversation

‘The number one barrier has probably been stigma’: the challenges facing disabled workers in the Australian screen industry

The stories of people with disability rarely make it onto Australian screens. This isn’t surprising when we look at the ways disabled people are treated in the Australian screen industry.

The Independent UK

Elon Musk mocks laid-off Twitter employee with disability

If you’re not told you are fired, are you really fired

Fortune

A disabled former Twitter employee Elon Musk tried to call out just brutally shut down the CEO and his chaotic reign at the company

Twitter's Elon Musk attacked the disability of a former employee, Haraldur Thorleifsson, when he asked to confirm being laid off from the company.

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