Disability

Hi, I have several chronic illnesses (Crohn's Disease, Fibromyalgia, Long Covid, Stage 2 Chronic Kidney Disease and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea) and was migrated from WTC to UC with transitional protection last year and this has just ended today as we have savings over the limit. My partner is disabled and retired and is on…

Looking to make new friends that would understand me better

Hi my award was recently increased at tribunal and I’m owed £3000 back pay. The dwp have sent this to debt management for a historical social fund loan- which I have a payment plan for in place for last 5 years. I have called debt management and told them I’m behind on priority bills plus was counting on the money to pay…

Due to illness cancer. My work as give options. 1.terminate me on ill health exit I will get 3 notice and 3 days holiday. Should I receive my holidays for this year 26 days on top. 2.look into ill health retirement. 3.entitled to 28 weeks of Ssp . Can anyone help me with legal positions on this .25 years service on…

I am on benefits disability & pip high rate. Also on universal credit. At the moment it is me and my husband and daughter. She is 16 in college. We have a three bedroom house. Which we all occupy one room each. I have incontinence so that's why separate rooms. The problem is my son is moving in with us and wife and two…

Hello, I'm in the ESA support group and have been for a few months now. I've been thinking about going to university in order to gain qualifications for a new career that will adapt to my limitations. Do I have to fill a Work permit form while doing less than 6 hours a week physically in university and the rest distance…

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Hi Everyone, I would like some insights into your experiences with disability support in your region. I have ataxic/spastic cerebral palsy and moved to Wales from Reading because I was led to believe that disability support was much better there. I sold my flat, and moved in with my mother while I looked for a place…

Are there any maths and English online courses for an 18 year old.

Hello I have tried to find on the Internet, how much time is reasonable? We currently live in a bungalow, it was adapted for me 10 years ago, ramps, wet room, hand rails, higher toilet. Social Housing. As time has passed unfortunately our health has deteriorated too, I now need a special toilet that cleans you. I had an Ot…

Hi im new here just joined today I’m looking for advice how to start dating again and making new friendships I was in a 33 year realsionship so alien to the dating game I am also in a wheelchair have been disabled for 14 years it be nice to be able to speak to people also have disabilities and looking online for…

my son dla has stopped I have no letter about it he his 5 years old I did the renewal back in November I haven’t received any money since December and my care allowance has stopped too any idea on what to new please

Well what can I say, being ill sucks. Parenting a child while disabled and ill. Seeing your past partner move on and enjoy his future. I had not always been disabled, we met I was perfectly healthy. He left when the going got tough, I just get to bring up his son. My family really don't get it, they forget I'm not who I…

Hello everyone, I’m reaching out to the Scope community because I’m struggling to process a situation that has had a serious impact on my mental and physical health, and I’m hoping to hear from others with lived experience or knowledge in this area. I live with multiple long-term conditions that significantly affect how I…

Wheelchair users in the UK are being invited to join The Wheelchair Collective – the first national council of wheelchair users. Led by the Wheelchair Alliance, the initiative will give wheelchair users with lived experience the power to influence how wheelchair services are designed, delivered and improved. Backed by…

In 2021, Kerry Evans’ dream became reality when Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney invited her to join Wrexham AFC as a full-time employee. Today, she’s helping raise the bar for accessibility in football. Kerry will be speaking at Naidex on 25-26 March 2026 at the NEC Birmingham. Read the full story

Hi Just a bit of general advice, if anyone could please. Looking at a HA property to rent, it has some disabled adaptations going in for me. Apparently, there is a service charge of approx £5 per adaptation per week, so W&D toilet, each ceiling hoist, stairlift, it's going to add up! From what I can gather from the…

Hi my adult daughter has special needs including health conditions, her mental age is about 12y.old and I want to get LPA ( both) but don’t know if I need to do it through a solicitor or myself online since her understanding and decision making is limited, but not nonexistent. Many thanks

I've been disabled for about six years now. Mobility is an issue, as is mental health. As is pain. Not had any social life for about 10 years. Came here to see if there's anything I can do to improve My independency and feelings of isolation.

Hi. I'm Steph. When I was a teenager, I absolutely thought that, at best, in the future, I'd be living in a flat with a carer. I believed that that would be my life. Man, was I wrong…. It wasn't because I thought that I couldn't do it, i just didn't even consider it because, unfortunately, society told me that it wouldn't…

Hi, I am completing my PIP review form and have typed all of my responses. I am going to print this off along with my evidence but l'm a bit confused how or where I should attach it. Sorry if I don't make sense, I'm stressed and autistic so likely overthinking this. I have typed all of my responses and will print them…

Hello👋 We’re a small team of MSc Forensic Psychology students from Kingston University, currently conducting an ethically approved study on the psychological impact of online and offline harassment experienced by young adults (18–25) with physical disabilities. This area is still massively under-researched, and our mission…

After the high court ruling against the DWP and disability discrimination after not paying SDP from legacy benefits, they have done it to me since April 2024. I've been through the MR and the 1st tier tribunal and proved I was in receipt of SDP. They have still not paid the underpayment and compensation for the loss of…

Today we tried to call WHD as hubby hasn't heard anything. He's on pip and esa support group. The Energy bill is in my name. Phone line to us to email. Reply from email call them. We are sitting in front of a coal fire as its too expensive to run heating all day. Any ideas which direction to go?

A major international exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of the disabled artists movement is to be held in London in the spring, The Standard reports. The event, called 'Defying Limits, Defining Art: 70 Years of the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists', will give visitors a rare opportunity to meet some of the world’s…

hello everyone my name is Angela, I’m 60 yrs young and retired due to my ill health.

A new education law came into force in Wales on 1 September 2021. The Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 changes how children and young people aged 0-25 years with additional learning needs (ALN) will have their needs assessed, planned and monitored. These changes have been gradually…

Hi all. I have been on benefits (housing, esa lcwra -now new style esa- and part UC) for over 20 years and am in the unusual position, for me, of feeling like I could work again being a dog walker. Only trouble is I don’t know where to start, what my options would be regarding if I have a bad week and can’t work, would the…