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'Deficit of dignity' in disability benefit system
SCOTS with disabilities face a “deficit of dignity” under the jiggery-pokery of Britain’s benefit system, an MSP warned yesterday.
The chair of Holyrood’s welfare reform committee urged ordinary people to “shine a light” on the coalition’s latest welfare wheeze by giving evidence to his panel.
Labour’s Michael McMahon said he wanted to hear first-hand experiences of claiming the Con-Dems’ new “personal independence payment” (PIP) — launched in 2011 after axing the longstanding disability living allowance.
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