How will ADA policy change affect Region residents with disabilities?

Sick and disabled speak on Labour’s welfare cuts: “Enough to drive people to suicide”

Starmer’s moral crusade is a smokescreen to impose cuts designed to get up to 1.2 million disabled people off disability benefits and cause untold misery to hundreds of thousands of people in Britain.

The system is broken - but cutting benefits from the poor and blaming it on the vulnerable won’t fix that

As I wait for confirmation of more government cuts, I’m feeling frightened and angry.

‘I’m terrified’: Disabled benefit claimants on the impact of Labour’s £5 billion cuts

Welfare recipients tell The Independent what losing their health-related benefits would mean to them

‘The government needs to think about people’: A PIP recipient reacts to Labour’s plans to cut disability benefits

“I feel it’s a huge concern, and it’s going to have a huge impact on people with learning disabilities,” says 47-year-old Ismail, who works full-time and receives Personal Independence Payment (PIP).  PIP helps Ismail to cover the extra costs related to his health needs and his learning disability. “It helps me be part of my community and takes me to places I need to reach,” Ismail says. Through the Motability scheme, Ismail’s family member leas…

How will ADA policy change affect Region residents with disabilities?

The Department of Justice removed what it described as “unnecessary and outdated” red tape guidances for businesses to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. “Avoiding confusion and reducing the time spent understanding compliance may allow businesses to deliver price…

How disability benefit cuts will affect people

MANY vulnerable disabled people within our community will be understandably worried about the government’s recent proposed changes to the welfare…