‘We will track you down’: how the UK government is reviving the troubling ‘scrounger’ stereotype
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The biggest drain in Britain isn’t disabled people. It’s the myth that we’re “benefit scroungers.” Most disabled people didn’t choose this life. We didn’t wake up and think, “Yes, I fancy poverty, surveillance, and being humiliated by the DWP.” Benefits don’t fund luxury. They barely fund survival. The real cost isn’t disabled people, it’s a system built on suspicion, stigma, and the lie that needing support makes you a problem. We’re not scroungers. We’re surviving in a country that keeps movin
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The biggest drain in Britain isn’t disabled people. It’s the myth that we’re “benefit scroungers.” Most disabled people didn’t choose this life. We didn’t wake up and think, “Yes, I fancy poverty, surveillance, and being humiliated by the DWP.” Benefits don’t fund luxury. They barely fund survival. The real cost isn’t disabled people, it’s a system built on suspicion, stigma, and the lie that needing support makes you a problem. We’re not scroungers. We’re surviving in a country that keeps movin
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