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Big cash injection for disability services

The federal budget includes an extra $8.8 billion for the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with extra frontline staff to be rolled out.

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Brisbane Paralympian Karni Liddell's car, wheelchair stolen seven months after home was flooded

Karni Liddell's specially fitted car — which contained her wheelchair — was stolen from an apartment complex, leaving the disability advocate to wait six months for a replacement.

ABC News

Ellen Keane on her hopes of making a splash with 'The Big D' - and in her final years in the pool

The Tokyo medallist wants to 'poke a bear' and change the status quo with podcast conversations with people who live with disabilities

Irish Mirror

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DWP benefits including Universal Credit and ESA could be hit with 'permanent cut'

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to unveil a Medium-Term fiscal Plan on October 31

Liverpool Echo

Paralympian gold medalist Ellen Keane launches new podcast exploring the world of disability

The ‘D-Word’ will explore the world of disability through conversations with leaders in their field who live with a disability or are involved in the disabled community

Irish Mirror

Struggles beneath the surface for Tupou Neiufi

WATCH: A Paralympic gold medallist in the pool, Tupou Neiufi reveals the struggles she's had to overcome - mental, physical and cultural - in this Loading Docs documentary.

Newsroom.co.nz

Disability support charity gains local feedback on new £25 million facility planned for Perth outskirts

Capability Scotland has built a sample full-sized model apartment to let residents get a taster of the proposed new Bertha Park-based project

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ScotRail staff 'exhausted, embarrassed and ashamed' of alleged lack of disability access care

"It's very disheartening for us staff to tell the people we have been helping for years, that we can no longer do so at the same standard. We want ScotRail to be a success, it's our jobs."

Glasgow Live

Young business owners challenge perspectives on disability, create meaningful work life for themselves

Megan, who is autistic, and Devin, who is also a young person with autism, have each turned to entrepreneurship to access meaningful employment and connection in their communities.

ABC News

Why are we still waiting for equal pay after 50 years?

On the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, we need to not merely prohibit but instead prevent discrimination in pay on the basis of sex, ethnicity or disability, says Dr Claire Dale

Newsroom.co.nz

Woman charged with killing 87-year-old mother in CHA senior apartment on South Side

Mae Brown was killed days after arguing with her daughter over disability checks, prosecutors said.

Chicago Sun-Times

How Strictly is challenging the way people think about dance

At the beginning of every British autumn we mark the turning season with three immutable certainties: bright chilly mornings, the start of a new academic year and the launch of Strictly Come Dancing. This year sees the 20th series, with a line-up that has sparked nationwide conversations about gender, sexuality…

The Conversation

DWP issues update over missing £150 cost of living payments

Most people should have received the money but the Queen's death means some payments might be missing

Wales Online

All the cost of living help available and how to get the payment

Poorer households are expected to be hardest-hit, while eldery people have reported having to choose between heating or eating

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Why surging bills are bringing extra worry for people living with a health condition or disability

Charities have warned that rising living costs will impact on many people’s health this winter. Vicky Shaw finds out more.

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Are you financially vulnerable? This calculator will reveal your level of risk

Income-based measures of poverty can be too simplistic, so a more-sophisticated measure of financial stress is needed.

ABC News

Centrelink's Disability Support Pension application process 'a hate crime', says Sophie Reid-Singer

Sophie Reid-Singer has a congenital bone disease causing chronic pain and fatigue. She says having to prove her disability to access welfare support is "a hate crime".

The Canberra Times

Nurse banned after 'disregard for most fundamental needs' of man with disabilities

The nurse had already been convicted after pleading guilty to one charge.

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Belfast mum's pride as daughter with Down Syndrome does first catwalk

Linzi wants to show that "having a child with a disability doesn't mean they cannot achieve great things"

Daily Record

DWP confirms no plans to provide additional cost of living cash support for people on disability benefits

Around six million people received the £150 disability cost of living payment in September.

Daily Record

Lanarkshire theatre to stage powerful play starring Down's Syndrome actress

The Scottish play challenges perceptions on love and disability with Abigail Brydon leading the cast

Daily Record

Chancellor urged to raise benefits in line with inflation before next April

Disability charities said a decision not to uprate benefits by inflation would be ‘disastrous’.

Daily Record

Albino woman wears fake tan to hide condition after being 'abused, bullied and spat on'

Billie-Jo Randall says she has been physically attacked in public because of her disability and has "rude comments hurled at her" whenever she leaves the house.

Manchester Evening News

Who is eligible for a DWP Cold Weather Payment and how much you can claim

The government will provide extra financial help this winter when temperatures reach their coldest

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Disabilities are overlooked when school attendance rates are scrutinised'

Anna Morell, from Disability Rights UK, says while poverty is a factor in looking at the plummeting school attendance rates - taking into account disability is imperative to ensuring future generations are able to succeed academically

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