We must learn to love our disabled young people for who they are

Taking disability allowance off a disabled young person will not take away that young person’s disability, writes Victoria White.

People are not disabled because the State is paying them to be so. They will not take up their beds and walk into a job because their disability allowance is removed.

In its 2017 report, Making Work Pay for People with Disabilities, the Government is arguing with a straight face that paying a disability allowance to disabled young people aged 16 to 18 is condemning them to a life of welfare-dependency.