Disability benefit cuts will affect Wales disproportionately, campaigners say

Disability benefit cuts planned by the UK government will disproportionately impact the lives of people in Wales, campaigners have said. The proposals, which are still at the consultation stage, would further compound poverty and exclusion for disabled people in Wales, according to the chief executive of Disability Wales, Rhian Davies. The proposed changes would have a markedly uneven impact across the UK, earlier Policy in Practice analysis found. More than 3m UK households will be hit by the changes to disability and incapacity benefits starting from next year. The DWP also took part in a recent inquiry into Wales’ outsized disability employment gap, which Davies of Disability Wales said made the proposed cuts “all the more perplexing”.