"Two out of five people with disabilities cannot heat their homes while a third reduce their food intake"

A 44% income gap means people with disabilities are more likely to have less money than the rest of the population - and a study shows that they are almost three times more likely to live in material deprivation

Nearly half of adults with disabilities say they had to reduce their energy consumption this winter (

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Two in five people with disabilities can't heat their homes this winter and a third have been forced to cut back on food spending, new research shows.

A 44% disability income gap means people with disabilities are more likely to have less money than the rest of the population.

The Resolution Foundation report used a YouGov survey of approximately 8,000 working-age adults, 2,000 of whom had a long-term illness or disability, to compare the experiences of people with disabilities and non-disabled in the face of the cost of living crisis.< /p>

The study found that people with disabilities are almost three times more likely to experience material deprivation than the rest of the population (34% vs. 13%).

Nearly half (48%) of adults with disabilities say they had to reduce their energy use this winter, compared to almost a third (32%) of people without disabilities.

Activists have called on the government to "act now" (

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One-third of adults in the lowest household income decile have a disability, compared to less than one in 10 adults (9%) of adults in the highest household income decile.

This underlying income gap excludes income from disability benefits with additional cost,...