Tick the Box, Pay the Price? Travel Insurance When You’re Disabled
Declare a medical condition and many travel insurers refuse you, exclude it or hike the price. The Equality Act says they need relevant, reliable evidence to do that, and FCA rules say they must point you to specialist cover. Here’s how to insure yourself, and your wheelchair, without being fleeced.
Right to Choose: The Legal Route Round the ADHD and Autism Waiting List
In June 2026, up to 959,662 referrals that may be for an ADHD assessment were open in England, and waits run to years. If you live in England, the law lets you choose who assesses you. Here’s how to ask your GP, and what to do when they say no.
The 1968 List: Free Prescriptions, Medical Exemptions and the £9.90 England Still Charges
England is the only UK nation still charging for prescriptions, at £9.90 an item, and the list of conditions that makes you exempt was agreed in 1968. Here’s who gets free prescriptions, how to claim a MedEx, and how to avoid a £100 penalty.
Your Degree, Your Rights: DSA, Reasonable Adjustments and the Abrahart Ruling
Around one in five UK students has a known disability, and in 2024 the High Court upheld a ruling that a university’s discrimination contributed to a student’s death. Here’s the money, the law and the complaint routes that make adjustments happen.
Dementia Doesn’t Cancel Your Rights: Attorney, Council Tax, Benefits and the Help Nobody Mentions
Around 982,000 people in the UK live with dementia, and more than a third have no diagnosis. Families routinely miss a council tax exemption, a benefit that isn’t means-tested, and the one legal document that has to be signed early. Here’s the checklist.
North York Moors and its steam railway: an honest access guide
Steam trains, heather moorland and medieval abbeys don’t sound step-free. More of the North York Moors is within reach than you’d think, if you know which stations have steps, which trains need ten days’ notice, and where the Changing Places toilets are.
Motability: Turning a Benefit Into a Car, Scooter or Powerchair
If you get the enhanced mobility rate of PIP, you can exchange it for a leased car — insurance, servicing, breakdown and tyres included — or a scooter or powerchair. How the scheme works, what it really costs, and the decisions worth thinking through first.
Universal Credit and the Work Capability Assessment: The Other Points Game
PIP is not the only assessment maze. If illness or disability limits your work, Universal Credit runs its own — the Work Capability Assessment — with its own form, its own descriptors, and around £400 a month riding on the outcome.
Attendance Allowance: The Benefit a Million Older People Never Claim
Not means-tested, no assessment visit for most claims, worth thousands a year — and vast numbers of eligible pensioners never apply, because nobody told them arthritis, breathlessness or memory problems “count”. They count.
The Carer’s Deal: Allowance, Leave, and the Assessment You’re Owed Too
Millions of people prop up the care system unpaid, and most never claim what little exists for them: Carer’s Allowance, a legal right to unpaid leave, and a council assessment of their own needs — not just the person they care for.