Survey confirms what we all suspected: Welfare reforms will hit people with disabilities the hardest

The Hardest Hit, a coalition of over 90 disabled people’s organisations and charities, today produced the report ‘The Tipping Point’, which brings together a survey of over 4,500 disabled people, a poll of more than 350 independent welfare advisors, and more than 50 in-depth interviews with disabled people with varying conditions and impairments.


Here are some of the statistics revealed in the report:
  • 85% claim losing their Disability Living Allowance (DLA) would drive them into isolation
  • 95% fear that losing DLA would be detrimental to their health
  • 65% of disabled people felt that ESA assessors did not understand their condition
  • 90% of welfare advisors said that too many disabled people are slipping through the net and are left without adequate support by the welfare system
Read the full report here.

This has to stop.

Help support the Hardest Hit campaign this October by taking action today. Contacting your MP could make a huge difference and will only take a few minutes.

Help The Hardest Hit now: 

http://thehardesthit.wordpress.com/take-action/

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