The energy industry is to investigate how it can improve its standards of care and support for vulnerable customers. Trade association Energy UK has launched a new independently-chaired commission which
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More than £100 million has been spent by the Department for Work and Pensions on administering reviews and appeals against disability benefits in little more than two years, new figures
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A company which provides cars for disabled people has stockpiled £2.4 billion of taxpayers’ money and pays its chief executive £1.7 million a year, it has been reported. Motability, a
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A Government minister has described claims from an SNP MP that people have “taken their own lives as a result of Government’s benefit policies” as “appalling and unsubstantiated”. Work and
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A woman in her late 60s who was “locked into the end stage” of multiple sclerosis died in late 2015 after a Court of Protection judge allowed medics to cease
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The Government is going to review all 1.6 million claims for a disability benefit after it decided not to contest a High Court ruling. Ministers previously said accepting the decision
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More than 220,000 people have been given “zero scores” in both parts of the test for disability benefits in only 18 months, according to new figures. Labour’s Angela Eagle called
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Some 60% of people claiming the main long-term sickness benefit believe the amount of money they get is not enough to live on, according to a major new survey. Labour
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Insurance companies risk creating a “genetic underclass” by excluding those who suffer with rare neurological conditions from cover, MPs have heard. SNP MP Gavin Newlands told ministers that action was
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Scientists have created an algorithm which can detect a side effect of Parkinson’s treatment that causes involuntary jerking movements. Prolonged prolonged exposure to the dopamine replacement drugs can lead to
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