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The present document is an article taken from The Guardian, a British daily which has a left of centre political trend, published on October 27th, 2012. It was intitled « The worseming plight of the disabled and their carers ». Written by Savitri hensman, it talks about the financial difficulties of the disabled and their carers since the welfare reform.

Social reform is supposed to reduce public spending on social assistance at the expense of the living conditions of people with disabilities and their carers.

On the one hand, carers are stressed because their working conditions have deteriorated. On the other hand, the disabled and their families are in danger and for the most vulnerable, et may lead to suicide.

This new system of social protection is very unpopular and causes outrage in the United Kingdom. The government’s objective is to reduce public spending, but in fact it hurts the economy.

Although most British people believe in this political ideology and believe that the poor are responsible for poverty, carers are aware of the plight of people with disabilities and the more tragedies will accumulate, attitudes will change. In the meantime, the situation worsens.

A big change for the British social security system. The welfare reform translates into the introduction of universal credit, the objective of which is to ensure that work is always more financially advantageous than inactivity.

The worsening plight of the disabled and their carers

While cuts in public spending are becoming more unpopular, outrage at the underfunding of care is limited

•Savitri Hensman 27/10/2012

•guardian.co.uk,

Being a carer can be hard work but has its compensations – a smile, a touch, companionship with and delight in those we love. Recently, however, many carers in the UK have found their situation getting tougher, in ways that leaves them more stressed and marginalised. Indeed, sometimes it feels as if carers and disabled people on low to average incomes are living in a parallel universe to neighbours with whom they apparently share beliefs and values.

A bizarre and brutal welfare system, and public spending cuts that affect social care and NHS support in meeting needs such as help with eating and drinking, are putting many at risk. Much has been written recently about the human cost of these harsh, ideologically driven measures, supposedly aimed at cutting public spending but whichare actually damaging the economy.

For instance, a GP survey revealed the extent to which unfair fitness-to-work tests are harming the mental health of the vulnerable and leaving some people suicidal. Charities report that many families with disabled children are already at breaking point as a result of cuts in services. For example, researchers were told: "The thing that most worries me is not being able to afford heating in the winter. I am cold nearly all the time, and could not survive with less."

But, while cuts in public spending are becoming more unpopular, outrage at the underfunding of care that leaves so many people to suffer avoidable pain, hunger, thirst and squalor is limited. And most people in Britain believe, not that the welfare cuts affecting unemployed and disabled people are too harsh, but rather that they are not harsh enough.

Many disabled people hit by benefit or care cuts continue to go to work and pay tax and national insurance, or contribute to society in other ways, but are widely viewed simply as a drain on resources. In England, churchgoers and the non-religious alike tend to regard poverty as being usually the fault of the poor, though clergyhave radically different views.

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