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The Autumn Budget 2025 could bring changes to disability support, with Motability reforms under speculation (Photos: Pexels/Getty Images)

Autumn Budget could bring changes to PIP and disabled drivers scheme

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Neurodiverse Edinburgh Fringe show reflects on how the system still feels stacke...

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Controversial PIP voucher plan update as new reforms threaten support

Liz Kendall MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has said welfare changes are 'never easy and rarely popular' (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Labour reforms will only harm disabled people's work prospects

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Labour's benefits shake-up - my takeaways as a finance specialist

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Universal Credit: health element changes and above-inflation rise news

Gregor Poynton MP, speaking in the House of Commons.

Gregor Poynton MP backs Labour welfare reforms

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall making a statement on welfare reform in the House of Commons

Explainer Benefits overhaul: How does the welfare crackdown impact Scotland?

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PIP reforms - what changes to disability benefits could mean for you

DWP issues update on 'light touch' PIP reviews that need no assessment

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Martin Lewis reveals how pensioners can claim up to £5,600 annually

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5 common conditions that make you eligible for £470 monthly PIP help

PIP designed to improve the quality of life of those suffering from long-term physical disabilities or mental health conditions and could be an additional boost for many especially during the cost of living crisis.

The 21 health conditions that could entitle you to £156 a week

Motability Operations adapts vehicles for disabled drivers. Picture: Jon Super/PA

‘Indefensible’ cost of disabled vehicle conversions – government advisers

More than 300,000 Scots receive disability payments, including those living with cancer and other terminal diseases

No ‘degrading functional examinations’ for disability benefit applicants

DWP issues scam warning to everyone due £326 cost of living payment

Benefits payments will rise in April (Photo: Adobe)

New rates for Universal Credit as payments rise from today

Maxine Thompson, a Masters student at Glasgow University with MS.

Charities call on Scottish Government to scrap 'cruel' benefits rule

You could be eligible for monthly PIP benefit payments - here’s how to check if ...

Benefits payments will be paid earlier this May bank holiday (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is when May Bank Holiday benefits will be paid - including Universal Credit

Therese Coffey has suspended all face-to-face assessments for benefits.

Coronavirus: Face-to-face assessments for social security benefits suspended

MS Society is urging Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd to scrap the 20 metre rule. Picture: Getty

MS charity criticises UK government for ‘squandering’ millions on benefit rule

Barbara Hogarth

Benefits cuts to Multiple Sclerosis sufferers will ‘cost more’ for UK government

Alexandra Mitchell, 68, who has both legs in calipers, is to lose her Motability car after a new benefits assessment ruled she no longer qualified. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Disabled Edinburgh driver threatened with losing her mobility car - again

Disabled wheelchair user Stephen Scott,52, who has been told he will no longer receive the benefit he uses to pay for his mobility car after he managed to pass an assessment by Department of Works and Pensions Picture: SWNS

Humiliated disabled man says DWP took away mobility car after '˜agonising assess...

A patient receives chemotherapy treatment. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Woman having chemo for stage 4 cancer '˜not sick enough' for benefits

John Casserly, Mental Health and Money Advice Adviser

John Casserly: Money's too tight to mention for many with mental health issues

Andrew Strong, Assistant Director (Policy and Communication), Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (The ALLIANCE)

Radical and swift change needed in social security system

Double amputee Mintlaw man told to prove he is disabled

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Disastrous chancellor serves interests of the rich at the expense of the disable...

Terry Wogan. Picture: Jon Savage

Leaders: Why benefits revamp worth pursuing | Terry Wogan

A Blue Badge. Delays in paying the PIP are leaving many without enough money to afford essential living costs. Picture: Neil Hanna

Benefit delay leaves disabled without enough money

Thousands of sick and disabled Scots face poverty over delays to crucial benefits. Picture: TSPL

Thousands of Scots hit by benefit delays

Better Together have claimed proposed changes could cost £750m. Picture: TSPL

Scottish independence: £750m welfare bill claim

David Cameron's welfare changes for disabled people in Scotland, England and Wales have been delayed. Picture: Neil Hanna

Welfare changes for disabled people delayed

UK government ministers insisted that the system needed to be reformed to ensure that the 'right benefits were going to the right people'. Picture: Getty

Scots charities warning over changes to benefits

Half a million on disability benefits set to lose out under DLA changes

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MP slams carers’ benefit cuts

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Letters:

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Shake-up of benefits hits most at risk

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Disability charity seeks guarantee over concessionary travel

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Maria Miller: Reforms will aid disabled
Following the Hardest Hit march in Edinburgh last weekend, I wanted to reassure disabled people what our reforms actually mean to them.

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Cancer patients struggle to make ends meet

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