Disabled people ‘more likely to be poor’

PEOPLE with disabilities are twice as likely as the rest of the population to be poor, a study shows.

Disabled people are less likely to have a job and more likely to live in a home where no one works.

The ERSI study on Disability and Social Inclusion in Ireland, launched in Dublin yesterday by the Minister of Social and Family Affairs, Séamus Brennan, found that 38% of people with disabilities living in poverty get by without basic items.