Iain Duncan Smith aims to reduce the number's receiving Disability Living Allowance's replacement the 'Personal Independence Payment' by 500,000 'in a bid to combat fraud and abuse'.   It's tempting to trot out official government statistics regarding DLA and fraud (less and half of 1% if you're interested, so around 15000) but this is to re-enforce the government's framing of the issue, employed by Duncan-Smith and hungrily supported by various media organs.  
 
Recognise instead that disabled...
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