5 d. ago Nearly 40,000 North Lanarkshire children and families received £2.8m towards heating bills last winter

Social Security Scotland's Winter Heating Payment is paid automatically to people who get certain low-income benefits, including households with young children, disabled people or older people.

Society

5 d. ago Over 17,000 West Lothian families receive £1.34m towards heating bills last winter

Winter Heating Payment is paid automatically to people who get certain low-income benefits, including households with young children, disabled people or older people.

Economics

5 d. ago DWP confirms Universal Credit rule change set to boost income by £420 for over one million households

An estimated 2.8 million households see deductions made to their Universal Credit award to pay off debt each month.

Economics

6 d. ago DWP issues update on calls to scrap planned cuts to disability benefits

Titled "Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits", the petition called for the government to scrap its proposed plans for the disability benefit PIP and the health element to Universal Credit

Politics

6 d. ago Families, pensioners and disabled people due between £59 and £305 in one

More than half a million children and families received heating payments last winter.

Economics

7 d. ago DWP benefit and pensions payment dates for May Day bank holiday

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed the dates when people claiming benefits will be paid over the upcoming May bank holidays

Economics

8 d. ago Free driving lessons for people on PIP, ADP or other disability benefits

Learner drivers just need to pay for the costs of the theory and practical driving tests.

Politics

8 d. ago Young disabled people using a wheelchair may need driving licence under UK Government rules

UK Government legislation refers to wheelchairs as ‘invalid carriages’.

Politics

8 d. ago Kemi Badenoch suggests transgender people use disabled toilets after Supreme Court ruling

Kemi Badenoch suggested transgender people can use disabled toilets after the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.

Events

8 d. ago DWP confirms early State Pension and benefit payments due to bank holiday next week

Full list of DWP, HMRC and Social Security Scotland payments changes due to bank holidays in May.

Economics

9 d. ago ANDREW PIERCE: Is hotel inquiry key to Watson's attack on union?

Before Watson became deputy leader - when Jeremy Corbyn was Labour boss - he pocketed £100,000 from Unite to support his political work.

Events

9 d. ago Fire destroys seven minibuses used by disabled people and school children

Police and fire crews were called to the incident at Silk Mills Park and Ride in Taunton, Somerset, shortly after 7.50pm on Saturday.

Events

1 week ago Full list of people who qualify for disabled Blue Badge parking

Blue Badges allow eligible people to park in disabled car park spaces, generally meaning a shorter walk to their destination

Politics

1 week ago Disabled people detained by Ice sound alarm over overcrowded jails

Rodney Taylor, whose legs were amputated as a toddler, just one of many people with disabilities at risk from detentionIn his three months locked up at Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia, Rodney Taylor has missed meals and showers, lived with increasing pain in his hips, developed a swollen thumb on his right hand and blisters on the stumps where his two legs were amputated when he was a toddler.Taylor’s mother brought him to the US from Liberia on a medical visa as a small child. He went through 16 operations and is a double amputee. He has two fingers on his right hand. Now 46, he has lived in the US nearly his entire life, works as a barber, is active in promoting cancer awareness in his community, and recently got engaged. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago DWP confirms PIP changes won't apply to group of 700,000 people

Minister for Social Security and Disability Sir Stephen Timms, has confirmed that people of state pension age won't be impacted by the changes to PIP

Politics

1 week ago DWP confirms new PIP changes will not apply to specific group of nearly 700,000 people

Nearly 700,000 existing PIP claimants will not be impacted by planned reforms starting in November 2026.

Politics

1 week ago Danny Dyer tearfully reveals wife Joanne still controls all their finances 25 years after his wild youth which saw him cheat on her and go on drug

The actor, 47, gets a grilling in ITV 's new show The Assembly, which sees a celebrity face questions from a group of autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people.

Events

1 week ago Danny Dyer takes cheeky swipe at his 'nepo baby' kids as he defends parenting decision

EastEnders star Danny Dyer took part in a new series called The Assembly, where he answered questions from autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people

Politics

1 week ago Producers wanted to avoid being ‘unpleasant’ to interviewers on The Assembly

The show sees celebrities interviewed by a group of autistic, neurodivergent and learning disabled people.

Politics

1 week ago Assisted dying coercion risk greater for disabled people – Tanni Grey

Discrimination against disabled people in society has ‘risen remarkably’ in recent months amid discussion of welfare reforms, the peer said.

Events