Timed to coincide with the PBR and to highlight the need for consistent action, rather than reductions in support to disabled and older people, the manifesto highlights that:

• Disabled people are twice as likely to live in poverty as other citizens
• Roughly a third of all disabled people live in poverty – especially disabled people not accessing disability benefits:
• 29% of disabled children live in poverty
• A third of working-age disabled adults live in poverty
• 29% of disabled pensioners live in poverty in households not accessing disability benefits

Disability Alliance and and its partners believe this is avoidable and unacceptable and call for action from the main political parties in the lead up to the General Election.

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