More than 305,000 benefit claimants in Scotland will start to see their Personal Independence Payment (PIP) replaced by the new Adult Disability Payment by the end of August, following the launch of a ...

Hundreds of thousands of claimants are to lose their disability benefits as Britain’s bloated welfare budget takes the strain of public spending cuts. More than £1billion is due to be slashed from the ...

GPs are conducting rising numbers of health checks in patients with learning difficulties, but most are still missing out on the annual assessments, say researchers. The figures come despite a ...

The latest figures from Social Security Scotland show that by the end of October 2022, merely 3,500 people across Scotland were receiving Adult Disability Payment. The new disability benefit is ...

The health secretary has written to GPs to encourage practices to make full use of additional income provided for ensuring learning disability registers are up to date and carrying out annual health ...

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Nursing and charity leaders have welcomed new funding from the Scottish Government to introduce annual health checks for people in the country with learning disabilities. Health boards will receive ...

Hundreds of millions of pounds are being paid in disability benefits to people without a face-to-face assessment of their needs, figures have revealed. By James Kirkup and Jameskirkup 11 November 2011 ...

All adults with a learning disability will be offered the vaccine against coronavirus after new advice from government experts warned they were at greater risk from the virus. The decision is a major ...

A new company given the contract to assess disabled people for a sickness benefit has told the BBC it will do one million assessments this year. Maximus is being paid £595m over three years to carry ...

Changes to disability benefits are starting to come into force meaning people applying for help in the north of England will face new checks. The new system, which will be rolled out across England by ...