UK benefit cuts to affect the disabled

The famous boast of Britain's welfare state was that people would be looked after, from the 'cradle to the grave', yet the proposed cuts by the government may have a detrimental effect on those who need them the most.

The Broadhead family, made up of Matthew, Dominic, and their mother Lisa, who is suffering from an aggressive form of multiple sclerosis, are currently living off toast.

Matthew has to prove to the government that he works 35 hours a week caring for his mother in order to receive the grand total of $75 a week to live on.

Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from Leeds, United Kingdom.

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[cazqab]

To all the idiots commenting on here . Be in there situation for one day then talk !!!!!

[gulbirk]

To all the nasty comments I just have one thing to say. FUCK YOU. You should try living in their shoes for a couple of weeks and see how good you would do. The lack of empati from right wingers is just amazing. Im looking forward to the day in which the system compleatly collapses so we can all see the utter failure of egoistical ideologies.

[leny41]

all of those leaving the nasty comments, i hope you gain some sort of degenerative condition or get crippled in some sort of accident so then when you have to live through something like this, you'll eat your own words. matty stays home to look after his dying mum yet you say he should go out and work? who'd look after her then? dom goes to 6th form, he's getting an education so that he has more chance of a job. if you lived in their lives for one week, you'd see how hard it is

[handysmerf]

Ma name Iz jerry Jackson an welcomz to ma house

[GtrDudeL]

@LILoRUBE U'r is an modern (texting based) abbreviation U fucking moron.

[GtrDudeL]

@LILoRUBE I don't give a shit if U and U'r idiotic numb nuts agree or not... shove it up U'r ass U fucktard! U worthless little piece of shit.  Society needs to rid itself of worthless scum of the like of U. Fucking pathetic little piece of entitlement/gimmi bullshit. get a fucking job U freeloading worthless shill.

[LILoRUBE]

@Abcflc Exactly what I thought!

[LILoRUBE]

@GtrDudeL Are you just thick? "U'r" ? What the fuck does that mean. What do you mean get all I deserve? I don't have a "fucked up entitlement mentality" either. At least attempt to explain your pathetic comments. Nobody agrees with you, nobody thinks you're cool... know why? Because you're not. I hope YOU get all YOU deserve, which is a slow painful death after a lonley life of suffering :) Now, piss off you pathetic peice of dirt.

[Abcflc]

my god is there no empathy left in the world?

[andie2244]

cute cat

[GtrDudeL]

@policechaser kiss my ass U fucking maggot.

[policechaser]

@GtrDudeL U'r mother...what are you, twelve years old? Go troll somewhere else, little wanker.