The worsening situation of disabled people and their careers

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This is an article from the guardian.co.uk published  on twenty-seventh december two thousand and twelve whose main subject is the worsening situation of disabled people and their carers.

The difficult conditions of the caring profession do not take away from the enrichment of the profession due to the contacts and exchanges it provides. In spite of this, the social welfare system is becoming stricter. This makes their situations all the more complicated to overcome. Cuts in public spending greatly affect social assistance, which can no longer provide for basic needs such as drinking or eating for people with disabilities.

The inequalities in the system are so great that in the professional world it becomes complicated to work as a disabled worker. For example, aptitude tests are not fair between a person who has no disability and one with a disabling condition. With the reductions in benefits people have no choice but to continue working because their income does not allow them to live properly.

Great Britain is divided into several categories. There are those who find that the system is not tough enough. There are the pensioners who do not receive social assistance when they would be entitled to it. And the carers who observe without being able to do anything has a deterioration of their working conditions.

To conclude, the British welfare or health care system is not yet ready. There is a lot of imbalance in the population and too great a gap in the standard of living between people. Reductions in public spending are necessary but not to the detriment of the population.

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