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Disability Cuts Outrage: My Story
The Socialist
|Issue 972, 23-29 November 2017
A Derby Socialist Party member
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I am a 49-year-old woman who has been managing the progressive disease multiple sclerosis for 19 years. I am unable to work and receive disability benefits.
In the year 2000, following an appeal process with the support of a welfare rights officer, I was granted Disability Living Allowance, highrate care, high-rate mobility, indefinitely. It was a relief knowing that I had this benefit, enabling me to enjoy a better quality of life.
This story is from the Issue 972, 23-29 November 2017 edition of The Socialist.
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