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Disability is not a lifestyle choice & 'Life not worth living' for disabled people facing benefit cuts

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Mon, 14/02/2011 - 5:03pm
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'Life not worth living' for disabled people facing benefit cuts

Campaigners say government plans to end automatic right to state support for independent living is causing many to despair

For Ella Findlay, the £400 a month in welfare payments she receives from the state is the difference between life and death. With the money she is able to live alone, work as an employment adviser and pay for a specially modified car.

Diagnosed as a teenager with progressive multiple sclerosis, Findlay is among 1.8 million disabled people of working age that the government is targeting in its aim to reduce by a fifth the £5bn cost of disability living allowance (DLA).

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Disability is not a lifestyle choice

The majority of people receiving disability living allowance truly need the money and desperately wish they did not

I like to think that I am a fairly intelligent person, and yet one thing continues to baffle me: the idea that disabled people enjoy claiming benefits. No disabled person chooses to be dependent on others, whether those people are family, friends – or tax payers.

Of course, some people claim benefits unjustly, but here is the key point: those people are not disabled. Those people – who are in the minority despite what the scaremongering media might lead you to believe – choose living off the state, despite being able to work for a living. This is just as offensive to the disabled as it is to the able bodied – if not more so.

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