Cost of living crisis: Disabled people hit hardest by rising costs, charities warn - and help is needed

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The increase cost in energy prices and the general cost of living is driving many families to debt

It's led to mounting debt for the family as Dave's income is stagnant despite the costs rising.Helen said:"I don't have extra money. I work full-time but as a single parent, I don't have additional funds. So anything extra goes on credit cards and then every three or four years that's converted into a consolidation loan.

Some of the unavoidable extra costs she faces include higher insurance rates, having to rely on taxis due to the inaccessibility of public transport and tailoring clothes to fit her.Shani told Sky News these basic needs are becoming unaffordable for many. "My biggest fear is that more disabled people fall into poverty and not have a way to get out of it because your capacity to get out of poverty is largely based on your capability to work. Disabled people are twice as likely to be unemployed."Worst of food price rises 'yet to come' - Tesco bossCharities like Disability Rights UK and Scope want to see targeted support to help disabled people with the rising cost of living.

 

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It’s ok tho the government have given Ukrainian government 400million in aid 🤣🤣 they don’t care about the uk people

The government don't care about that ,they know people will be enslaved to working all hours until they drop

pls put this to the top of the news agenda , we understand the war is bad but , push the gov to help the needed here !!!!

£5M a day on hotels for economic shoppers, borders softer than 2002 under Tony Blair, Boris telling us to welcome everyone

This Government’s broken energy policy allows soaring profits at the expense of basic need, while bills skyrocket.

‘We can’t help everyone because it’s too expensive,' 'so we're doing what we always did and helping ourselves’

Grow your own garden, get a log burner and cut down a tree....

Yup and the likes of HSBC_UK while in debt, still charging huge interest rates on overdrafts while claiming they have to be “responsible” biggest load of bs and screwing over so many!

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Vote Boris, they said.

Its essentially having overkill parasites feeding from tax payers money 💰 House of Lords is useless Parliament is useless and corrupt and then we have local governments aswell why so big it’s not needed at all there all milking us it must cost billions for nothing waste of money

This can be applied.

Everyone including myself will have to cut back on unnecessary luxury items, alcohol, cigarettes and holidays to pay rising energy prices - cut your cloth and you should be fine!

Parliament and political parties and MPs are not needed its an unnecessary cost to tax payers we could have power redistribution to local governments and mayors wedontneedparliament its a drain on tax payers money 💰 why do we allow it

An absolute disaster for families already on the line and if the government doesn’t take action soon then I’m afraid the impact will be felt for years.

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