The Latest Breaking News from Disability

A range of financial support will be available to households across Scotland and the UK in the coming months to help ease the burden of the worsening cost of living crisis

Around six million people on qualifying benefits will receive the payment from September 20.

There will be a number of payments coming into your bank account over the next few months

More than 313,620 disability benefit claimants started transferring this summer.

The additional payments will be made to people claiming certain benefits to help with energy bills, rising inflation and ever-increasing prices on food and petrol

Youths living with disability are proving how access to swimming lessons and coaches can change their lives and create new goals and aspirations.

People on the disability pension will be able to work extra hours without losing their benefits under changes to help boost the labour market.

Former chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a host of new measures after criticism the government was not doing enough to address economic hardship

The daughter of a woman who lay dead for more than two hours on the ground of a supported residential service calls for changes to the system that "failed" her mother, after giving devastating evidence at the disability royal commission.

The package includes a £400 discount on energy bills

Disability campaigner Anna Morell says when Tony Blair came to power, his mantra was education, education, education - but we know that education budgets have been squeezed for well over a decade