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The local impact of disability benefits reforms

Disability benefits changes will hit the North and Wales the hardest, and the 10 councils impacted the most face economic costs five times higher than the average, says Deven Ghelani.

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Last week we at Policy in Practice published headline findings on the expected impact of disability benefit reforms, highlighting the removal of the Work Capability Assessment and the likely effects for councils and the NHS. Here we dig deeper to reveal how the changes are expected to affect individual regions and local authorities across the UK.

We've broken down the expected human and economic impact in every local authority, showing just how unevenly the effects will be felt.

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