Parents of disabled children face over £20,000 annual income loss, study reveals
A leading charity is calling for the Government’s Child Poverty Strategy to recognise that families caring for youngsters with physical or mental disabilities are being forced out of work and into hardship Daily Express :: News Feed
Labour’s winter fuel payment cuts set to hit 84% of disabled pensioners, poll shows
Exclusive: New poll reveals 84% of pensioners with a long-term health condition or disability are set to lose the lifeline. Daily Express :: News Feed
‘I refused to give up my plane seat for a disabled couple – it’s not my problem’
A man said he refused to swap seats with a ‘disabled’ couple on a plane as he wanted to sit next to his girlfriend – and people have defended him. Daily Express :: Travel Feed
Disabled woman lived ‘nightmare’ life for year after ‘cowboy builders’ ruined her home
Mary Lukins was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2016 and wanted to make her semi-detached house “more accessible” by building a rear extension. Daily Express :: News Feed
‘I can’t provide for my daughter’: Disabled mum slams Universal Credit as ‘not enough’
Thousands of families with children have been forced to turn to informal lenders or loan sharks in the last six months due to high energy costs. Daily Express :: Finance Feed
‘Make it simpler’: Mum worried to claim DLA for disabled son as process too ‘complicated’
The cost of living crisis has been widely reported as hitting disabled households even harder due to the cost of their care even with the Disability Cost of Living payment. Daily Express :: Finance Feed
Dad-of-two skipping meals for his son as disabled Britons ‘dying behind closed doors’
Many disabled Britons are unable to make the necessary adjustments to save money during the cost of living crisis, leaving families forced into “medieval” choices to survive. Daily Express :: News Feed
‘Humiliating’ Ryanair kick disabled man, 18, off flight as wheelchair would ‘ruin plane’
RYANAIR have reportedly kicked a disabled man off a flight after claiming his electric wheelchair could “ruin the plane”. Daily Express :: News Feed
Disabled are rail victims
AT 29, I’m lucky that I’ve managed to check off everything on the life list I’d hoped to achieve: a successful career in digital journalism, sharing a home with the man of my dreams and enjoying an active and exciting social life. Never did I expect to not only fall severely ill with meningitis this […]
North Korean parents ‘kill disabled children at birth’, a sickening new report reveals
PEOPLE with disabilities in North Korea are killed at birth, often by their parents, or sent for obscure medical experiments at the secretive and terrifying “Hospital 83”, a new human rights report declared. Daily Express :: News Feed