‘How can I not charge my wheelchair?’ The real effects of benefit cuts for millions of disabled people

Adam Gabsi, co-chair of Inclusion London. Photograph: Anna Gordon/the Guardian

Adam Gabsi is unequivocal on the subject of his personal independence payment: “It really is an essential lifeline. I don’t feel that I would be able to function without it.”

Gabsi receives his Pip disability benefit for multiple sclerosis, with which he was diagnosed 18 years ago, when he was 21.