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Voices: ‘I feel like an expensive pet’: Independent readers open up on the human cost of disability cuts

Voices: ‘I feel like an expensive pet’: Independent readers open up on the human cost of disability cuts

Our community says disability benefit cuts will ‘break people,’ leave carers ‘destitute,’ and cause a human cost many say is being ignored

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