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Solicitors believe that up to 13,000 disabled people in the UK have been affected by the change and may be entitled to make a claim to retrieve lost benefit payments.

Countries with such high levels of inequality as the UK have higher levels of ill health, obesity, drug and alcohol addiction and lower levels of trust and educational attainment, says the Equality Trust.

Wealth inequality is almost twice as high as income inequality and, having fallen for most of the 20th Century, has increased over the past decade, says the Resolution Foundation. 

Church Action for Tax Justice is calling on voters to ‘remember the poor’ as they consider how to vote in the general election.