Disability, Household Income and Expenditure : A Follow-up Survey of Disabled Adults in the Family Expenditure Survey

Are incomes and living conditions in households which include disabled people as good as those which don't?

What extra financial costs are incurred by disability?

How do the spending habits of the two types of household vary?

This report examines these issues by analyzing the income and expenditure patterns of households containing a disabled adult member in comparison with other households.

It finds that total gross incomes of the first category were considerably lower than those of other households, that the total spending of these households was substantially less than the others, and that disabled people generally experience a lower standard of living than their able-bodied counterparts.