Some 400,000 disabled people across England have been stripped of the right to free insulation that could bring down their heating bills, in a move quietly slipped out by the government on Friday.
Disability equality charity Scope today slammed the cut as “bitterly disappointing” and showing “total disregard” for the needs of disabled people, who they warn are the “hardest hit” by fuel poverty and face “sky high” energy bills.
Under the new version of the government’s flagship energy efficiency scheme – the ‘Energy Company Obligation’ (ECO) – access to help is being cut from nearly half of all disabled people as their income is judged to be too high, documents released on Friday revealed.
