General Article Have you been on the end of scrounger abuse?

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It’s now almost a year since the Paralympics started and we’ve been asking disabled people and their families if they feel the games made a difference to their day-to-day lives. 

There’ll be a lot of discussion next week about legacy. Scope is going to be urging journalists and the Government to listen to disabled people’s views.

One issue that keeps coming up is ‘benefits scrounger rhetoric’, and how this leads to people being abused in the street and being trolled online.

We asked on Twi...

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