Disability and poverty: to live with the allowance is not enough

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A question that remains on the edge

When we talk about disability, the public debate focuses almost always on work, school, sports, and everyday life. Fundamental issues, but that often left in the second floor, a central issue: the poverty.

Living with the sun bonus

Many people with disabilities live exclusively with the disability pension and the accompanying bonuses, others only with the pension disability. It is necessary to say with clarity: live with dignity, with only the entitlement to these benefits is not possible.

The cost of living and expenses related to the disability make this condition is unbearable.

The poverty invisible

Poverty related to the disability, is often invisible, because it is rarely recognized as a direct result of the lack of equal opportunity. Talk about inclusion without addressing this theme means to stop the words.

The work as a means of dignity

The work represents a fundamental tool of autonomy and dignity. Support people with disabilities inaccess to employment the appropriate means to offer a real chance of getting out of a poverty forced.

Inclusion policy: you need reality

Policies inclusion must go beyond the formal obligations and economic incentives. Serve concrete paths, mentoring and real attention to the quality of the work, so that the inclusion does not remain only on paper.

Without dignity, economic, there is inclusion

Without economic security, the inclusion remains incomplete and fragile. To address the issue of poverty is a necessary step to build a society that is truly inclusive.

Call to action

If we want a society that is truly inclusive, it is time to get our act together.

Join, share, and take the position: we support include paths work in real and claim policies that put at the center of the dignity of the economic of persons with disabilities.

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