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Please try and check, what's so hard about that?

No wonder people in this country believe disabled people are inherently scroungers, receiving money for nothing, when we are greeted by headlines in national newspapers and on the TV, like the ones I have seen today, saying that our welfare benefits are to be cut by £150 per week in next week's Budget. Benefits that we receive for being sick and disabled. Benefits that are supposed to help put us on a level playing field with our non-disabled fellow citizens. Benefits that we ourselves, or our families, have contributed to by way of taxes and NI contributions. No wonder we are being vilified and thought of as living a pampered life of luxury when we're not. No wonder we get shouted at and abused in shops and on the streets by people who are also struggling in the gloom of austerity. No wonder when misinformation such as that I have seen and read today are being quoted on Social Media and by the media as being fact.

29 Mar 2016
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Bus Conduct regulations: No change on wheelchair access rules

Disability Rights UK made suggestions for changing the law following the recent court decision concerning wheelchair access on buses Following the decision on Firstgroup Plc v Paulley it was established that a driver has no power, under the Public Service Vehicles (Conduct of Drivers, Inspectors, Conductors and Passengers) Regulations (the 'conduct regulations') to compel any passenger who is not a wheelchair user to move from a designated wheelchair area.

23 Mar 2016
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