Less than half of people with a disability are in employment

People in employment who are affected by a range of disabilities including chronic illness earn a median income of above €20,000. File picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews

Workers with a disability are paid far less that those without, while a third of people with a disability receive long-term payments and have no employment income.

Those are just two of the findings of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in its latest Income, Employment and Welfare Analysis of People with a Disability which was published to coincide with the UN International Day of People with a Disability tomorrow.