DWP provides up to £156 each week for people with these 70 neurological conditions

Lorraine Kelly has admitted SAS: Who Dares Wins would be the only reality show she'd consider doing - but has one small catch.

Netflix has been forced to defend the conditions on its upcoming Squid Game: The Challenge reality series following reports of freezing cold temperatures and a contestant having to be stretchered off during the Red Light, Green Light game.

A Dumbarton man with epilepsy has hit out at the DWP for insisting he’s fit to get a job – despite saying his deteriorating condition makes it impossible for him to work.

The latest figures from The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence show that there are now 5.4 million people across Great Britain receiving treatment for asthma, including 68,000 people (one in 14) living in Scotland. The statistics also show that approximately 160,000 people across the country are diagnosed with asthma every year and that roughly 250,000 adults and children are living with severe asthma.

More than 1.4 million people over State Pension age are receiving regular financial support for a health condition from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Attendance Allowance is a benefit which currently provides 123,786 older people living in Scotland with daily living expenses of either £61.85 or £92.40 each week.

An estimated 19.2 million families and 39.8 million individuals across Great Britain currently in receipt of State Pension or benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will see their payments go up by 10.1 per cent later this year.

State Pension currently provides essential financial support for 12.5 million older people across the country, including more than one million retirees living in Scotland. This regular payment is available for those who have reached the UK Government’s eligible retirement age, which is now 66 for both men and women, and have paid at least 10 years' worth of National Insurance Contributions.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently announced that 11.6million Winter Fuel Payments and Pensioner Cost of Living Payments - support worth a total of £4.6billion - have been made to older people across the UK, including 973,604 living in Scotland.

Basic and New State Pension payments will increase this year by 10.1 per cent for some 12.5million older people across the UK, including 992,052 living in Scotland. The honouring of the Triple Lock rule was confirmed last month by the UK Government and means that older people are set for an income boost of up to £75 per month from April.

Last week we left acclaimed children’s author and storyteller Tony Bonning singing songs and telling tales at Glenlochar playgroup, a chance pastime which was in time to become his vocation.

Two pensioners have been left in a 'serious' condition after a horror road crash on the A96 this afternoon.

Chronic or persistent pain is pain that carries on for longer than 12 weeks despite medication or treatment. Most people get back to normal after pain following an injury or operation, but sometimes the pain carries on for longer or comes on without any history of an injury or operation.

A man has been rushed to hospital after being 'hit by a bus' in Edinburgh city centre.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has issued a new scam warning to millions of people due to receive cost of living payments over the coming months to help ease the financial pressure of soaring energy bills and rising inflation. More than eight million households are set to receive the first part of the £900 means-tested cost of living payment this spring, worth £301.

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 replacing Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for those aged under 65 on April 8, 2013.

Schools across Perth and Kinross will close for three days over the next week as teachers resume strike action over pay and conditions.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has said there are “currently no plans” to revise the arrangements surrounding the annual £10 Christmas Bonus which has been paid to millions of benefit claimants since it was launched by Ted Heath’s Conservative Government in 1972.

The latest statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that, by the end of October 2022, there were more than three million people across Great Britain claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP). The regional breakdown includes nearly 330,000 claimants living in Scotland, 2.6million in England and 226,000 in Wales.