The Latest Breaking News from Disability

The DWP have announced a Christmas bonus as well as the usual Winter Fuel Payment among other bonuses.

The federal government has named human rights advocate Rosemary Kayess as Australia's new disability discrimination commissioner.

Over 93% of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ annual spending funds pensions, compensation, medical care, and education programs for veterans.

The UK chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has unveiled new rules for welfare benefit claimants. Under the government’s back to work plan, £2.5 billion of funding is to be allocated to employment support schemes with the aim of getting over 1 million people with long-term health conditions or disabilities, as well as…

Most women with disabilities who face domestic violence find it harder to seek help due to the attitudes and systems within support services.

Greens and David Pocock question why expert panel will not have members with lived experience of economic exclusion and disability

Over the ten years since the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was launched, its design, operations and costs have been scrutinised by governments, the media, the legal system, researchers and people with disability and their advocates.

An estimated 370,000 people will be ineligible for incapacity benefits and forced to look for work, Jeremy Hunt announces

The Chancellor said many unemployed people ‘can and want to work’ but the ‘system makes that too hard’.