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Elon Musk's public disability shaming highlights a bigger workplace problem

A conversation between Musk and an ex-Twitter employee with a disability says a lot about vulnerable workers' struggles.

Fortune

Georgia's disability community worries lack of services is driving desperate acts

ATLANTA — In early January, workers at a nonprofit that cares for disabled Georgians were stunned to learn that one of their former clients was killed in a suspected murder-suicide.

Tribune News Service

PIP claimants most-likely to receive an ongoing award with a 'light touch' review after 10 years

An award for PIP can last anywhere between a few months and up to 10 years.

Daily Record

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Calls for industry to do more to realise potential of $3.3 billion accessible tourism market

Accessible tourism is the fastest-growing travel sector in the country, but critics say many Australian hotels are still failing to offer comfortable accommodation for people with disabilities, despite it making good financial sense.

ABC News

Perth woman Ro-Anne Steele helping people with a disability get behind the wheel

Ro-Anne Steele makes an immense difference in the lives of people living with a disability, increasing their confidence and independence — by teaching them how to drive.

ABC News

Edisons of the 'burbs: Michael's 'bindozer' is just one of his many creations that support people with disability

ABC Science is out to find Australia's backyard inventors. In part three of our series we meet Michael Green, who volunteers his time to help people with disabilities tackle everyday problems.

ABC News

Judy Heumann obituary

Disability rights activist who helped shape global protocols and played a decisive role in fighting discrimination in the US

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People in Scotland with one of these 21 health conditions could be due up to £627 each month

Around 329,334 people in Scotland were claiming PIP in October of last year with over two million in England also claiming for it. Meanwhile in Wales, over 200,000 people also claimed the benefit with a total of 3,166,864 claimants in the UK.

Glasgow Live

Living with a disability in France: How tech is changing lives for the better

In this edition we report on the latest technological innovations for disabled people in France. Founded by Nicolas Huchet, who lost his right hand in a work-related accident, My Human Kit is a company aimed at transforming the lives of those living with a disability. From prosthetic hands to electric…

France 24

New petition calls for people on certain benefits not to lose payments for living with partner

The petition argues that benefit rules mean that disabled people have to choose either ‘happiness or financial independence’.

Daily Record

State Pension payments of up to £203 each week for nearly 3m older people from next month

All the increases to weekly and monthly payment rates for those on the Basic and New State Pension.

Daily Record

Mechanic modifying motorcycles to help veterans, people living with disability return to riding

Sharine Milne is mastering the "art form" of modifying a motorcycle to reignite the passion of people who may not be able to operate a conventional vehicle because they are living with a physical disability or "life injury".

ABC News

Susana Mendoza urges legislators to mandate full pension benefits for cops, firefighters who survive COVID-19

The Illinois comptroller choked up telling a House panel how her brother, a Chicago cop, was left disabled by COVID but denied full disability benefits.

Chicago Sun-Times

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.

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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

Daily Record

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.

The Texas Tribune

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.

Daily Record

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.

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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.

AAP

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.

ABC News

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.

Belfast Live

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"

Salon

Baby Yoda a portrait of fluid disability

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

Axios

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.

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