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DISABLED workers are more likely to be employed in lower-paid and non-home-working jobs, according to new analysis today.
About one in seven care workers and home carers in England and Wales have a disability, the Leonard Cheshire charity found.
One in six are retail cashiers, check-out operators, work in call centres or as crossing patrol officers, it revealed.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
