Disability

How to navigate DWP disability benefit applications and PIP assessments
DWP disability benefits
DWP disability benefits

How to navigate DWP disability benefit applications and PIP assessments

Just 5% of people with a learning disability are employed. This woman is out to prove the world wrong
Aisha/ Learning disability
Learning disability week

Just 5% of people with a learning disability are employed. This woman is out to prove the world wrong

This Strictly Come Dancing super-fan has big dreams and wants to bust myths about Down's syndrome
Dance/ Strictly
Learning Disability Week

This Strictly Come Dancing super-fan has big dreams and wants to bust myths about Down's syndrome

From benefits cruelty to child hunger, The Full Monty shows a welfare system stripped bare
Robert Carlyle as Gaz in The Full Monty carrying a mattress
TV

From benefits cruelty to child hunger, The Full Monty shows a welfare system stripped bare

'I had to sell all my possessions just to feed myself': More of your stories on DWP PIP rejections
A person in a wheelchair
Letters

'I had to sell all my possessions just to feed myself': More of your stories on DWP PIP rejections

The DWP's record on disability benefits is a disgrace. We're here to shine a light on it
A person with a walking stick
Paul McNamee

The DWP's record on disability benefits is a disgrace. We're here to shine a light on it

'Truly sickening': Your stories of the DWP rejecting PIP disability benefit appeals
A miniature figurine businessman looking down on an information booklet for department for work and pensions
Letters

'Truly sickening': Your stories of the DWP rejecting PIP disability benefit appeals

DWP accused of 'denying people their rights' after rejecting 90% of disability benefit appeals
Disability

DWP accused of 'denying people their rights' after rejecting 90% of disability benefit appeals

The government is failing to support disabled people and we are paying the price
Close Up Of Senior Woman In Wheelchair With Energy Bill By Radiator In Cost Of Living Energy Crisis
Rachel Curtis

The government is failing to support disabled people and we are paying the price

Disabled people are being left out of the climate conversation
two wheelchair users on a subway platform in Taiwan
Environment

Disabled people are being left out of the climate conversation

More people are off work sick than ever before
Employment

More people are off work sick than ever before

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.