6 h. ago Nearly all University of Oxford students screened for ADHD are told they have it after just 90 minute assessment

Statistics show the UK's top university has an increasingly higher number of disabled people than the rest of the higher education sector - amounting to nearly 1 in 3.

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12 h. ago 'Disabled people are starving to death and taking their own lives, when will DWP learn?'

The Mirror's Real Britain columnist Ros Wynne Jones takes Labour's benefits overhaul to task as she sheds light on the horrors that the most vulnerable members of our society could now face

Events

20 h. ago Cafe owner slammed for using 'fatties' jibe to advertise £35 bap challenge

The Belfast Breakfast Baps Facebook page posted a picture of a mobility scooter with a caption stating that 'morbidly obese' people are 'not disabled - you're fat'

Economics

41 h. ago 'Moral case' to slash Britain's benefits bill as Keir Starmer faces outcry from backbenchers

Diane Abbott, the Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP, says cutting money for disabled people ‘is not a Labour thing to do’

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43 h. ago Keir Starmer faces outcry from backbenchers as Labour prepares to slash 'unsustainable' benefits bill

Diane Abbott, the Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP, says cutting money for disabled people ‘is not a Labour thing to do’

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45 h. ago The TikTokers who show people how to pretend to be disabled to get a 'free' car as questions grow over Motability

The Mail revealed on Saturday how a record 815,000 claimants made use of the Motability scheme last year.

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51 h. ago Scots comedian calls on Glasgow Comedy Festival to support disabled performers

James Gardner has urged fellow comics and organisers to engage with disabled people amid the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

Culture

57 h. ago Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled

PM faces backlash over plans to tighten eligibility, potentially leaving more than 600,000 claimants £675 a month worse offKeir Starmer is to defy growing anger by driving through welfare cuts for some of the UK’s most severely disabled people, with an overhaul that could see more than 600,000 benefit claimants lose out on an average of £675 a month.Ministers are set to ditch plans to freeze personal independent payments (Pip) amid a backlash. But they will still tighten eligibility criteria for the benefit under big changes to be set out by the work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Labour's benefits crackdown 'set to cut disability payments for 1 million people'

The huge changes to the welfare system, due to be announced next week, will see only the most severely disabled people qualify for support amid an overhaul of eligibility criteria.

Economics

3 d. ago Disabled people to get ‘right to try’ work without risk of losing benefits

In an attempt to stave off a growing Labour rebellion, the government has offered up a concession in its plan to slash the welfare bill

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3 d. ago Starmer should apologise to disabled people over cuts uncertainty, says SNP

Kirsty Blackman MP said any planned cuts to disability payments should be scrapped.

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4 d. ago Labour's benefits crackdown 'set to cut disability payments for 1million people'

The huge changes to the welfare system, due to be announced next week, will see only the most severely disabled people qualify for support amid an overhaul of eligibility criteria.

Economics

6 d. ago Starmer faces backlash in the Commons over potential welfare cuts

Labour MP Richard Burgon said disabled people are ‘frightened’ as he pleaded with the Prime Minister to make the ‘moral’ choice.

Politics

6 d. ago Labour MP clashes with Keir Starmer over DWP benefits cuts plan

Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced anger form his own Labour benches at PMQs over reports the Government is planning huge cuts to benefits - including those for disabled people

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8 d. ago BBC senior managers who tick 'diversity' boxes are paid more than their peers, figures show

Figures from the Corporation's annual report show that ethnic minority, LGBT, disabled and female senior bosses get paid more than people who are not from these categories.

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8 d. ago Voices: I know how to get sick and disabled people back to work

The government’s proposed ‘ruthless’ cuts to the welfare payments won’t fix our broken benefits system, says disability rights campaigner Kamran Mallick – instead, some targeted investments would actually pay dividends

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8 d. ago DWP 'sledgehammer' bank account policy warning for disabled people

Critics of new proposed powers for the DWP warned that it could disproportionately affect those claiming disability benefits

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8 d. ago Starmer braces for rebellion over welfare cuts as Labour accused of ‘pushing disabled people into poverty’

Labour backbencher warns of ‘deep, deep concern’ from colleagues over planned cuts

Politics

1 week ago New DWP plans to help thousands of sick and disabled people on benefits into work

DWP will provide additional support for around 65,000 sick and disabled people to help ‘unlock the benefits of work’.

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1 week ago The Scottish government must do more for disabled people, with many being forced to food banks

Our governments must not balance the books on the backs of people struggling to get by.

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