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Disability charity Scope said its national helpline has experienced a surge in calls from disabled people concerned about changes to disability benefits.
The welfare bill includes several welcome proposals - including extra money for disabled children and young people - but three unacceptable changes to disability benefits.
Changes to disability benefits are set to cut the income of about 600,000 people.
"But people feel very worried about the changes to disability benefits".
Large savings were supposed to come from changes to disability benefits, but the coalition stumbled badly.
Infirm and elderly people in Consett may also be hit disproportionately by changes to disability allowances, because of the legacy of the steel industry.
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The cross-bench peer has previously been highly critical of the Government's disability policy and warned that changes to the disability living allowance could see disabled people "ghettoised and excluded from society".
Her son Sam is seriously disabled, and she is worried about proposed changes to the Disability Living Allowance.
To highlight the impact of proposed changes to the Disability Living Allowance (DLA), we asked our users receiving DLA to send us videos of themselves, explaining the importance of this allowance.
That the changes to the disability benefit were coming was lurking in the back of Angela's mind when she looked for work: because of the way PIP is linked to other benefits, she knew that if her husband was rejected for PIP, she'd lose the carer's allowance and income support anyway.
She says that changes to the disability living allowance (DLA), a payment worth between £20 and £131.50 a week which helps disabled individuals meet extra costs of transport, food and other special requirements, could undermine the legacy aim of involving more disabled people in sport.
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