Crippled

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Frances Ryan. Crippled

CRIPPLED

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

CHAPTER 1. Poverty

CHAPTER 2. Work

CHAPTER 3. Independence

CHAPTER 4. Housing

CHAPTER 5. Women

CHAPTER 6. Children

Conclusion

AFTERWORD. A Fairer Society in the Age of Coronavirus

Notes

Help and Resources

Index

Table of Contents

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Austerity and the Demonizationof Disabled People

Second Edition

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Over the following years, this is set to further take its toll. While the implementation of the first wave of disability cuts is completed, latest measures – ushered in by a succession of Conservative-led governments – will roll out. As of 2017, new recipients of one category of ESA have seen the benefit shrink by almost a third – down to seventy-three pounds a week – with half a million people who are too disabled or sick to work set to lose over £1,500 a year each.23 Universal Credit – the all-in-one benefit system scheduled to be rolled out to eight million households by 2023 – is due to make 450,000 disabled people financially worse off,24 with some losing as much as £4,000 a year from the changes. At the same time, wider austerity measures, from ongoing benefit freezes to the gutting of local council services – relied on heavily by disabled people – will add to the burden.

The EHRC calculate that by 2022, the combined tax, social security and public spending policies carried out since 2010 will put a particular burden on disabled people. Families with a disabled adult as well as a disabled child will shoulder annual cash losses of just over £6,500 as a result of tax and benefit changes (or about 14 per cent of their net income).25 Grimly, the study found that households of people with the most serious disabilities actually stand to lose the most.

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