The Disability Penalty

This three-part series by disabled journalist Punteha van Terheyden looks into the unfair financial penalty disabled people and their families pay every month on top of the usual bills and expenses. As the cost-of-living crisis bites, the Daily Mirror’s week of Disability Stories shows the hardships our community face each and every day…

Read about the parents who sold their family home to pay off £100k medical debt and to continue paying for their daughter’s life-changing medication.

Find out about the disabled worker who cannot afford to pay for food and the neurodivergent podcaster who had to take the DWP to tribunal to get the Personal Independence Payment she was entitled to.