The benefits heist: how sick and disabled people have paid the price for the anti-welfare craze

In this episode, we take a look at: 

• Political attacks on sick and disabled people in the last 10 years
• Claims that benefit money is easy to get when it is categorically not
• Liz Kendall's stunning lack of imagination for devising welfare policy that brings out the best in us, rather than the absolute worse
• How anti-benefit claimant rhetoric runs so deep that people who are meant to help sick and disabled people claim benefits believe it. 

Not very long ago, I interviewed a frontline universal credit staff member who actually said that homeless people and people who claimed benefits needed to look lively and model themselves on Elon Musk.

True story. I'd be interested to know what you think of him when you hear that bit.

More to come. 

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