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Osborne Budget Disables Us Further

28 July 2015 by Val Bowen

The Chancellor may not have done some of the things people feared in relation to disability benefits, but, says Prof Peter Beresford in an article in Disability Now magazine, his measures are likely to disadvantage us further. “While the political rhetoric is of moving disabled people off benefits into work, the budget does little if anything to help them secure jobs and careers….. Years of effective evidence-building by disabled people about the failings of welfare reform and high profile opposition, do not seem to have led to any serious understanding or response from policymakers. There is still no serious political recognition of the ‘costs of disability’, let alone the help that families need to support members with learning difficulties, mental health problems, or physical and sensory impairments. Read full article

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