• Serbian railways gave free tickets to mostly anti-independence Montenegrins living in Serbia to go home to vote.

    ECONOMIST: A minnow emerges

  • While warlords rarely die of old age and few, barring newspaper editors, may mourn IB's passing, his death shows the Kalashnikovs have not yet been laid to rest in Abidjan and after 50 years of independence a living can still be made from gunpowder plots and scheming.

    BBC: Ibrahim Coulibaly: Ivory Coast's serial coup-plotter

  • The results come three years after the Government's National Service Framework for Long-Term Conditions, which pledged to improve quality of life and independence for people living with chronic conditions.

    BBC: Many patients pay for wheelchairs

  • Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has veered from being one of the country's most powerful politicians in its post-independence history to living a quiet life of self-imposed exile in London and Dubai.

    BBC: Profile: Pervez Musharraf

  • The UK government has said the Welfare Reform Bill would save billions of pounds by replacing Disability Living Allowance with a personal independence payment and replacing a range of other benefits with a single universal credit.

    BBC: Welfare Reform Committee 2

  • People on Disability Living Allowance (and the Personal Independence Payment replacing it) will be among those exempt from the cap.

    BBC: Benefit cap 'will encourage people to work'

  • But many of these folks are living this unique style of financial independence decades away from a traditional retirement age.

    FORBES: Less: The New More

  • So the call has gone out to everyone in Scotland and beyond - not forgetting that independence would affect people living and working in the rest of Britain as well - to contribute their views.

    BBC: What is the cost of conversation?

  • It also introduces tougher sanctions for those who refuse work and replaces the disability living allowance with a new Personal Independence Payment, which requires claimants to go through regular assessments of how their condition affects them.

    BBC: Welfare Reform Bill clears Parliament

  • The bill also introduces tougher sanctions for those who refuse work and replaces the disability living allowance with a new Personal Independence Payment, which requires claimants to go through regular assessments of how their condition affects them.

    BBC: Paralympian warns of welfare bill loophole

  • In Kuala Lumpur, the Salaam Wanita eco-basket making project is a social enterprise through which local women living below the poverty line seek economic independence.

    BBC: Sustainable travel in Malaysia

  • The bill would also replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with a personal independence payment.

    BBC: NI Assembly backs Welfare Reform Bill

  • Excerpt: In Lincoln's hands, the Declaration of Independence became first and foremost a living document for an established society, a set of goals to be realized over time, and so an explanation less of the colonists' decision to separate from Britain than of their victory in the War for Independence.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Living beyond your means leads to dependency instead of independence, and dependency leads to degradation.

    WSJ: What Would Margaret Thatcher Do?

  • It mustered a 16 vote majority against Crossbencher Lady Grey Thompson's amendment calling for an independent study and pilot programmes before the new Personal Independence Payment for disabled people replaces Disability Living Allowance.

    BBC: Voting with the heart - and stomach

  • The disability living allowance (DLA) is being replaced with Personal Independence Payments (PIP), which require up-front medical tests and regular health re-assessments for claimants.

    BBC: Welfare Reform Bill

  • And also I conveyed the His Excellency that the position of Indonesia is clear that we need a resolution on Palestine-Israel in a permanent, sustainable manner, a two-state solution and independence for the people of Palestine who are living in peace with the people of Israel, and must be supported by the international community.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Yudhoyono Press Availability | The White House

  • The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will replace the existing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) in April.

    BBC: Man's hand on wheelchair

  • Again, in an effort to distance itself from the likes of Brian Cox and Alan Cumming's contribution to pro-independence argument, the Better Together film featured the voices of people living across Scotland, from all professions and walks of life.

    BBC: Scotland politics

  • With the precise date of a referendum still to be set, but the SNP ruling out votes for Scots living abroad, the Scottish American community appears to be as divided about the merits of full independence as Scots themselves.

    BBC: Scottish independence: The American perspective

  • Disability Living Allowance will start to be replaced for new claimants in the north of England from today by the Personal Independence Payment.

    BBC: Minister responds to disability benefit reform concerns

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