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Despair of the disabled in UK

jeudi 30 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The UK's policies make disabled people struggle to qualify for the benefits they used to get. Some of them think about suicide.

Many disabled people have been put in inaccessible apartments, so they can't get out unless people come to help them.

The effects of privatization are visible in the lack of training of their assessors. I suppose that the companies that contracted to do this committed to hire qualified people for the job. But the state does not sue them or punish if they don't carry out that promise. In practice, privatization leads to unaccountability, and it shows.