Dispatches: Britain On Benefits
Monday 18 Feb, 8pm, Channel 4.
The Disability Living Allowance helps more than three million people lead useful lives. It pays for transport and carers, meaning that disabled people can work and lead independent lives.
But the benefit bill has to be cut, and the government plans to take more than half a million claimants off DLA. What will that mean for those who depend on it?
Talking to fellow Paralympians, disabled army veterans and disabled people in work, wheelchair basketball ace Ade Adepitan goes in search of answers, and asks if this hugely ambitious and expensive plan to reassess disabled people has been properly thought through.
Updated 13 Feb 6pm: This programme has been postponed in favour of one on the Horsemeat Scandal. I’ll update this post again as soon as I know the new date.
I hope he challenges the ‘truism’ that the welfare bill has to be cut. The Nordic countries specifically protected the vulnerable and made those who had created the crises and recession pay.
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