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SOPHIE WALTERS of Disabled People Against Cuts, asks — why were disabled people not given this option many years ago?
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THE coalition and Tory governments since 2010 have wrought immense pain and suffering on the disabled community, forcing so many of us into abject poverty with the deeply cruel benefits cuts.

More than 130,000 deaths have been directly caused by austerity, a large proportion of them of disabled people suffering the consequences of the deeply cruel government we find ourselves under.

A study published in December showed that homelessness among disabled people had increased by over 50 per cent in the span of a year.

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