A man took his own life after worrying about how he would survive after his benefits were stopped, a coroner has said. Nicholas Barker, a former fa...

A community worker caring for a man who was found fit for work despite previously suffering a brain tumour and having an amputated leg has describ...

Scottish doctors have slammed controversial French firm Atos over the 'fit to work' tests they carry out for the Department of Work and Pensions, with...

Accessible Work For All (AWFA) finds and vets thousands of jobs every single day in an effort to alert the disabled community of roles that are right for them. These roles could be in a local company or working from home as a freelancer.

A man has died by setting himself on fire outside a job centre in France after being denied unemployment benefit. Djamal Chaab, 43, sent a letter ...

A company contracted to help the disabled and unemployed get back into work, has come under scrutiny after a former staff told the BBC claimants were ...

A disabled man has described his distress after being left stranded inside an Atos centre when the fire alarm went off. Geoff Meeghan, 32, suffers ...

A man who suffers from physical disabilities and mental health problems but was judged fit to work by private government contractors is holding a week...

A teenage boy’s harrowing letter about the cruel effects of Atos’s fit-for-work tests has been passed on to Iain Duncan Smith. Kieran McArdle w...

A disability campaigner who set up an e-petition to stop government benefit cuts has vowed to continue her fight, after gaining more than 62,000 signa...

Disabled people insist the Disability Living Allowance is a “lifeline” and impending changes to the benefit are a “huge worry” after a report ...

A royal marine who lost his leg in a roadside bomb in Afghanistan has had his disability benefits cut after being assessed by private firm Atos. A...

The parents of a man who suffered from epilepsy and died after being stripped of his benefits have blamed his death on the stress of being found 'fit ...

A nurse who used to work for government contractor Atos has apologised after describing how she was forced to “trick sick people out of their benefi...

One in five recommendations by the Atos IT firm that suggest benefit recipients are "fit for work" are overturned at appeal. Of the claimants which...

In the weeks leading up to the Paralympics the air was filled with a familiar, silent contradiction. The predominant line focused on how inspiring it was going to be, seeing athletes perform and overcome, despite their disabilities. At the same time, a ComRes poll found that sixty-six percent agreed that "people with disabilities are often regarded as second-rate citizens".

Hate crimes against disabled people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland went up by 33% in 2011, figures have shown. More than 2,000 crimes took ...