title: People with learning disabilities are hit hard by funding cutbacks.
abstract: Thank you for publishing Ken Mack's letter (March 5) drawing attention to the suffering and distress caused by welfare reforms and cutbacks, and how people with disabilities and their families are being hit particularly hard.
authors.affiliation: Wolverhampton.
authors.forename: Charlie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hughes
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012946:Social Welfare / Q000191:economics*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics*; D006113:United Kingdom