Many disabled people in Scotland are living in “completely unacceptable” housing conditions, according to a new report. The report’s findings are set to be discussed at a “ground-breaking” conference on the housing problems faced by disabled people, to be held on 28 February in Edinburgh. The conference will be hosted by Capability Scotland and Glasgow [...]

Health professionals who are using a controversial new test to assess disabled people for out-of-work disability benefits believe the threshold for claiming the payments has been raised too high, according to new government-funded research. Doctors and other healthcare professionals said the threshold for claiming benefits through the work capability assessment (WCA) had “risen significantly” compared [...]

Disability charities have launched a petition calling on the government to scrap plans to remove a vital benefit from disabled people in residential care. Members of the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) believe that removing the mobility component of disability living allowance (DLA) from all disabled people in council-funded residential care will have a “huge and [...]

Evictions and increased levels of homelessness among disabled people are an “inevitable” result of the government’s housing benefit reforms, MPs have been told. In a report on the likely impact of the reforms, the Commons work and pensions committee – which is chaired by the disabled Labour MP Anne Begg – called on the government [...]

The government has said it could scrap the legal duty for builders to provide written access statements, sparking concerns among leading access experts. Access statements lay out how developers and designers have addressed access issues when working on new or refurbished buildings. But the government has announced that it wants to “reduce the regulatory burden [...]