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RE: DISABILITY BENEFITS

‘We are in exactly the same position!’

Readers continue to share their stories in response to our articles about how the benefits system is failing those it exists to support

• We are in exactly the same position [as Keisha Holmes (above), the 19-year-old with MS forced to use food banks, Issue 1576, 7 August]. My son was born with a learning disability.

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