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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Rachel Charlton-Dailey

'Disabled workers earn £3,700 less each year - the government must close the wage gap'

How much do you think you’ll earn between now and Christmas? Well if you’re a disabled person you essentially won’t earn anything compared to your non-disabled colleagues.

If this sounds a bit extreme, I must impress it’s only hypothetical - the disabled people are still getting paid, for now.

However thanks to the pay disparity between disabled and non-disabled people, today is the day that the average disabled worker stops getting paid for the rest of the year, that’s 54 days less pay than non-disabled workers.

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