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A route out of poverty?: disabled people, work and welfare reform
- Editors:
- PRESTON Gabrielle, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 132p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disability is both a cause and a consequence of poverty. Disabled people are more likely to be poor because they experience barriers to employment, high living costs, low wages, and inadequate benefits and tax credits. People living on a low income are also more likely to become disabled because of the close association between poverty and ill health. The book explores the evidence linking poverty and disability. Drawing on interviews conducted by CPAG, it also examines the experiences and attitudes of disabled parents to paid employment; whether disability benefits and support services are accessible, adequate and appropriate; and the impact government policy has had on their own and their children’s lives. The book is published in response to the Government’s Welfare Reform Green Paper, which aims to increase the employment rate of people who are sick or who have a disability and to reduce the number of people claiming incapacity benefit by one million. It argues that overcoming poverty is essential if the extent of disability and ill health is to be reduced. Support mechanisms, and the attitudes and behaviour of employers also need a major overhaul if welfare reform is to offer 2.7 million disabled adults and children a real route out of poverty.
Changing weights and measures: disability and child poverty
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Journal article citation:
- Poverty, 123, Winter 2006, pp.6-9.
- Publisher:
- Child Poverty Action Group
There has been a fall in child poverty from its peak of one in three children in 1998/99. The author looks at how children of disabled parents and disabled children themselves have fared relative to children not affected by disability.
Families with disabled children, benefits and poverty
- Author:
- PRESTON Gabrielle
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 14(1), February 2006, pp.39-43.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Families with disabled children are susceptible to poverty because low income is compounded by high costs. Combining caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant on benefits. But do disability benefits provide financial security for families who are susceptible to high levels of poverty and social exclusion? This article outlines the findings of a qualitative study: Helter skelter: Families, disabled children and the benefit system. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 20 families, each of whom had a disabled child who had recently been awarded Disability Living Allowance (DLA), it investigates the impact this additional income has had on their lives.