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Disabled people ‘will lose more than £28 billion in benefits’

30/03/2013 – 3:09 pm

Disabled people are set to lose more than £28 billion in benefits by 2018 as a result of government cuts and reforms to the welfare system, according to new research.
The research – by the disability charity Scope and the thinktank Demos – calculates that 3.7 million disabled people will lose out as a result [...]

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Government’s ‘secret plan to strip claimants of DLA’

22/03/2013 – 3:00 pm

The government appears to have a secret plan to reassess disability living allowance (DLA) claimants who have “indefinite” awards, in a bid to sidestep delays to implementation of its benefit reforms.
Three disabled people, who all work or volunteer as welfare advisers in different parts of the country, have described to Disability News Service (DNS) what [...]

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