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Legal aid for people with diabetes is under threat

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The government is changing the rules so that legal aid cannot be used to help people challenge benefit decisions. This will particularly affect over 78,000 disabled people a year who rely on legal aid to help them get the correct levels of benefit, including people with diabetes.

Help prevent disabled people being pushed into poverty because of inaccurate benefit decisions by joining the new campaign by Scope and Justice for All at http://bit.ly/lordshelpus
 
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