The Disability Benefits Consortium has written to Parliament (the Select Committee on the Merits of Statutory Instruments) to highlight the significant risk that new regulations under the Employment and Support Allowance could leave some disabled people worse off, because those who move from from Incapacity Benefit to Job Seekers' Allowance could lose a range of other benefits. RADAR supports the overall policy goals of welfare reform, to enable more disabled people to have careers and fully participate in society - because disabled people generally want to work. However, disabled adults are the one group for whom poverty has increased in the last decade - and it is essential that welfare reform reduces these shocking poverty levels. Policies that could exacerbate disabled people's poverty should be nipped in the bud.
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