The UK’s War Against Disabled People Part 4: ‘Dead People Don’t Claim’

Inthe first three parts of this series I’ve focused on the policy actions of successive governments, and the concerted (and successful) efforts of the private insurance industry to influence those policies, culminating in decades of systematic neoliberalisation and commodification of the UK’s welfare state. In this final part of the series, I will focus on the resulting assessment and ‘workfare’ practices, and the devastating outcomes of those policies for their intended target — disabled people. Content warning: the following includes details of mental distress and suicide. <a href="https://medium.com/@kaylinhamilton88/the-uks-war-against-disabled-people-part-4-dead-people-don-t-claim-b1a3e5255b80">Click Here</a>