Millions of people with disabilties rely on carers to help them get out of bed, wash and go to the toilet. Their needs must not be ignored in this election, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Not since Margaret Thatcher have we seen such an all-out assault on our social fabric, nor one that has caused such harm

Being hit by the bedroom tax is bad enough, but losing your sickness benefits too is even harder

A terminally ill man is leading the fight against the flagship welfare reform that is leaving disabled people hungry and housebound

The Conservatives claim the UK is a world leader in disability rights while penalising disabled people and failing to act on its own promises to help them into work

Severely disabled people, like Philip, are losing their lifeline as disability benefits disappear in the rollout of universal credit

The austerity rhetoric may have softened but the policies haven’t as latest government figures show 70,000 disabled people had benefits stopped

Despite the Tories’ ongoing brutal assault on disabled people’s living standards, there’s been no attempt to get voters with disabilities engaged in politics

A new army of ‘presenting officers’ is to help the Department of Work and Pensions at benefit tribunals, while the disabled person making the appeal is left to struggle alone

It’s in the government’s interests to keep promoting the very myths that keep the benefit fraud hotline ringing – and distract us from real social problems

A government consultation aims to cut welfare further by arguing that some people claiming disability benefits aren’t actually disabled

The damning parliamentary report into the government’s plan to reduce out-of-work disability benefits shows that this is policy drawn up on the back of austerity’s fag packet

It was a novel experience to be on a disability panel at a feminism conference. This shouldn’t be the case. We need to fight discrimination on both disability and gender

The Visit England campaign to improve disabled access to tourist attractions sets an example many venues need to follow

By cutting disability and sickness benefits the Conservatives’ welfare bill will worsen the lives of people who have little chance of finding another source of income

Life costs on average £550 more a month if you are disabled. Taxing the funding disabled people get to help with these costs would destroy one of the pillars of the welfare state

How could the father of a severely disabled child who died oversee policies that have left other severely disabled children hungry, cold and stigmatised?

Frances Ryan:If you tamper with the support disabled people rely on to work, being in the office with a personal assistant soon becomes being trapped at home, staring at the kitchen walls

Frances Ryan: Can’t afford the heating? Pneumonia. Can’t afford petrol? Hospital appointments are cancelled. Is this a crisis yet?