Disabled people 'hit by multiple benefit cuts'
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The charity says the Government’s welfare reforms will lead to up to 3.7 million disabled people losing a total of £28.3 billion by 2018.
A study carried out by the think tank Demos for Scope looks at cuts to disability living allowance (DLA), employment and support allowance (ESA), housing benefit and the so-called ‘bedroom tax’.
It reaches the conclusion that the changes, which come into effect in April, will hit ‘the same group of disabled people over and over again’.
Scope Chief Execut...
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