Attendance Allowance myths which stop people of State Pension age claiming up to £407 each month

22 Kids and Counting star Sue Radford has packed her bags and taken off on yet another trip, just a matter of days after her daughter Millie gave birth to her third child with her mum by her side as they put their long-running feud to bed.

For the average family, getting away on holiday is a massive expense and a luxury lots can't afford, but for Britain's biggest family, the Radfords - complete with 22 kids - it's a regular event. Sue Radford, mum of the 22, and her husband Noel whisked their children away for an action-packed and fun-filled weekend in a luxury £40,000 motorhome - affectionately known to the family as Betsy.The time away for the large family, who boast 517k followers on Instagram, is the 19th holiday they've enjoyed in less than two years.They've also recently enjoyed making family memories on a usually once-in-a-lifetime holiday in Florida, which at the time was their 18th holiday in 20 months.

Kirkman’s widow Heidi Berinstein Kirkman confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that he died of congestive heart failure following a long illness. He is survived by his daughter Sasha, his son-in-law and two grandchildren.The Association formed in 1965 and were famed for their ‘sunshine pop’ sound which focused on tightly woven vocal harmonies and light, melodic songwriting.Their highest charting single in the UK was 1968’s ‘Time for Livin”, which reached Number 23.

Queens Of The Stone Age have announced more tour dates across North America this December – see the newly announced dates below.Earlier this week, the band took to social media to announce their new show dates, which will see them close out their 2023 run of shows in North America this December.The newly announced North American leg of the band’s The End Is Nero tour will see them perform eight shows across the United States of America between December 5 and December 16. Shows have been confirmed for Phoenix, El Paso, Austin, Houston, Irving, Albuquerque, San Diego and Los Angeles.See the full list of tour dates below.A post shared by QOTSA (@queensofthestoneage)A Live Nation pre-sale for the new dates begins on September 21 at 10am local time using the code STUDIO, while general sales start on September 22.

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, an illustrated adaptation of Frank’s indispensable, historic book The Diary of a Young Girl. In the passage, the then-teenaged author and victim of the Holocaust described her genitals and attraction to other females.Frank, a German-born Jewish teenager who died in 1945, just months before Germany’s defeat in World War II, wrote the diary during a two-year time period when she and her family were in hiding to avoid being sent to Nazi death camps, remaining ensconced in a secret annex above the Amsterdam warehouse for the company that her father had owned.The graphic novel, which hews closely to the text of the unedited, original version of Diary, contains portions of Frank’s diary that had previously been edited out of the book’s 1952 English edition, but were restored in the book’s 1989 republication, reports The Dallas Morning News.Those censored sections included passages where Frank wrote about her understanding of male and female genitalia — including the development of her own body during puberty — and where she expressed feelings of attraction toward a female friend.Pulling from those passages, the graphic novel adaptation depicts Frank asking a female friend if she’d feel comfortable exposing their breasts to each other, with her friend declining.

The latest statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that State Pension currently provides regular financial support for 12.6 million older people across the country, including nearly one million retirees living in Scotland. This payment is available for those who have reached the UK Government’s eligible retirement age, which is currently 66 for both men and women, and have paid at least 10 years' worth of National Insurance Contributions.

Pension experts are urging older people to check the interest rate they currently have on their savings accounts after new research indicated that at least half of retirees could be missing out on hundreds of pounds each year. Pension Bee warns those missing out most are people with an interest rate of three per cent or less.

Travellers arriving into the UK will soon need a travel permit as the British Government tightens up the country’s borders. In October the new ETA (Electronic Travel Authorisation)scheme launches for people planning to travel the following month and new countries will be added until all overseas nations are encompassed by the end of 2024.

State Pension currently provides essential financial support for 12.6 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 of National Insurance contributions.

Some 12.6 million older people across Great Britain may not get the bumper 8.5 per cent State Pension pay rise next April as the UK Government tries to reduce spending. On Tuesday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that earnings growth for the period between May and July was 8.5 per cent, but this figure includes employee bonuses.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) now estimates that 165,000 older people have been underpaid their State Pension by £1.2 billion due to historical errors affecting mostly married women, widows and those aged over 80. It also estimates 210,000 people may have been underpaid a further £1.3 billion due to historical issues relating to Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP).

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be able to apply for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) entirely online from next year. New claims for PIP have been replaced in Scotland by Adult Disability Payment and are no longer processed by the DWP.

Prince Harry is back in the United Kingdom — but it looks like his return home won’t be an opportunity for any father-son time (or possible reconciliation) with his dad, King Charles III.

TMZ, the artist’s death follows a long battle with his health in recent years, which saw him struggle with both Parkinson’s disease and dementia. The news of his passing was broken by his son, Justin, who confirmed to the outlet that his father died in his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California.Although no cause of death has been officially announced, his son shared details on his father’s recent health battles.He stated that while Wright had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s nearly six years ago – and Lewy body dementia shortly after – it was only over the past 12 months that the symptoms began to rapidly progress.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has shared new plans to improve disability health assessments for people with fluctuating conditions. The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, Tom Pursglove MP, told the House of Commons on Monday that through the ‘Health and Disability White Paper’, “we have advocated for a number of tests and trials, including one that focuses specifically on better capturing fluctuating conditions”.

Dallas star Gayle Hunnicutt has died aged 80.The Texas-born star, who resided in the UK, was best-known for her work on TV’s Fall of Eagles, The Golden Bowl the Return of the Saint. But it was perhaps most renowned for her role as Vanessa Beaumont in the TV series, Dallas, which ran from 1978 to 1991. Gayle's other notable acting feats include playing Irene Adler opposite Jeremy Brett, in the first episode of the TV series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ("A Scandal in Bohemia") in 1984.

Sue Radford, star of Channel 5 show, 22 Kids and Counting, is currently enjoying an action-packed holiday in Orlando, Florida, with husband Noel and some of their children.The family are staying in a villa, which means that the laundry is still down to her to do, and she took to Instagram on Sunday to show off some huge piles of clothes waiting to be washed, as she she said the 'washing never stops', whilst thanking her lucky stars for having two washing machines. Sharing a snap of the laundry room to her Instagram stories, Sue, 48, wrote: "The washing just never stops on holiday.

More than 34,000 people have signed an online petition calling for the State Pension to be paid to everyone in retirement at the same rate as the National Living Wage, despite an official response rejecting the proposal. According to map data on the petitions-parliament website, 34,062 signatures have now been recorded from every parliamentary constituency across Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The Scottish Government recently announced that a new devolved disability payment designed to provide additional financial support for people of State Pension age will not include a mobility component. However, it has also confirmed that the new benefit will not involve any face-to-face assessments as part of the application process.

Attendance Allowance is a benefit delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for people of State Pension age who need help with personal care or supervision due to an illness, disability or mental health condition. A successful claim for the benefit is worth either £68.10 or £101.75 each week, depending on the level of support someone needs.