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Disability

The DWP is pushing the benefit fraud narrative but disabled people know where the real problem lies
Disability minister Tom Pursglove wears a stab vest with a DWP badge in front of police car
Rachel Charlton-Dailey

The DWP is pushing the benefit fraud narrative but disabled people know where the real problem lies

DWP job centres 'not equipped' to help disabled people find work
Disability rights

DWP job centres 'not equipped' to help disabled people find work

Vulnerable people face 'mental distress' to get on the priority services register
priority services register
Cost of living crisis

Vulnerable people face 'mental distress' to get on the priority services register

'We just want our homes not to hurt us': Disabled people trapped in temporary accommodation
disabled/ accessible home
Accessible housing

'We just want our homes not to hurt us': Disabled people trapped in temporary accommodation

Young disabled people are shut out from housing and forced to live with their parents
disabled people
Disability

Young disabled people are shut out from housing and forced to live with their parents

Disabled people fear 'cruel sanctions' as Spring Budget aims to drive people back to work
Businesswoman and businessman HR manager interviewing woman. Candidate female sitting her back to camera, focus on her, close up rear view, interviewers on background
Spring Budget

Disabled people fear 'cruel sanctions' as Spring Budget aims to drive people back to work

Will Jeremy Hunt's 'back to work' budget be on the money?
Spring statement

Will Jeremy Hunt's 'back to work' budget be on the money?

'£3.3billion for them. Debt and starvation for me': Vulnerable customers on British Gas's record profits
British Gas
British Gas

'£3.3billion for them. Debt and starvation for me': Vulnerable customers on British Gas's record profits

No one should have to ask whether they can 'do without' medication. But that's where we are as a country.
Rachel Charlton-Dailey

No one should have to ask whether they can 'do without' medication. But that's where we are as a country.

A disabled woman has been left without a toilet or shower for months by her healthcare provider
Faith/ disabled/ hoist
Disability

A disabled woman has been left without a toilet or shower for months by her healthcare provider

It's time the government stepped up to help disabled people in the cost of living crisis
Disability rights

It's time the government stepped up to help disabled people in the cost of living crisis

Energy costs leave millions living in 'Dickensian conditions' over Christmas
Energy bills

Energy costs leave millions living in 'Dickensian conditions' over Christmas

David Aguilar: Forget pity, I needed to change perceptions of disability
David Aguilar
from the author

David Aguilar: Forget pity, I needed to change perceptions of disability

Legacy benefits court case: Why claimants are still fighting for the £20 universal credit uplift
legacy benefits
Legacy benefits

Legacy benefits court case: Why claimants are still fighting for the £20 universal credit uplift

Ralph and Katie: ‘I said from day one we were going to change the world’
Leon Harrop and Sarah Gordy as Ralph and Katie
TV

Ralph and Katie: ‘I said from day one we were going to change the world’

£150 cost of living disability payment is not enough, charities warn
Cost of living crisis

£150 cost of living disability payment is not enough, charities warn

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'Using less energy isn't an option': Disabled people set to be hit hardest when bills soar again
Energy bills

'Using less energy isn't an option': Disabled people set to be hit hardest when bills soar again

'There's no support for us at all': The realities of caring for a disabled child during a heatwave
record temperatures/ carers of disabled children/ image of child in wheelchair
Heatwave

'There's no support for us at all': The realities of caring for a disabled child during a heatwave

The south London café helping people with learning difficulties into work
Cafe Van Gogh
Hospitality

The south London café helping people with learning difficulties into work

'A landmark moment': Arthur Hughes on being the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the RSC
Theatre

'A landmark moment': Arthur Hughes on being the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the RSC

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