Charity Warns Cuts Will Push Disabled People Into 'Severe Hardship'

Welfare cuts will push hundreds of thousands into severe hardship, Trussell warns

Charity warns cuts will push disabled people into 'severe hardship'

According to analysis by the Trussell Trust, 25,000 people in disabled households across Wales could require food bank support if cuts go ahead

15,000 people in NI disabled households could need food bank after benefit cuts

Charity Trussell calling on Government to reverse planned cuts to personal independence payment and universal credit

Disability cut impact could be even worse than expected warns food bank charity - The Mirror

Research commissioned by food bank charity Trussell found that 340,000 people in disabled households will be pushed into severe hardship by benefit changes being brought in by the Government

Welfare cuts likely to see tens of thousands more face severe hardship – charity

Stocks of food at a foodbank. Photo Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The impacts of the UK Government’s welfare cuts are likely to push tens of thousands more people into poverty than previously predicted, a major foodbank charity has claimed. Trussell said 340,000 more people in disabled households could face hunger and hardship by the end of the decade. Dozens of Labour MPs last month urged the Prime Minister to pause and reassess planned cuts, saying t…