Sweden cuts services for the disabled

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Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks0Austerity measures threaten to erode a successful social scheme in Sweden whereby people with disabilites are allocated personal assistants so that they can be largely self-sufficient in their home environment. The media have reported several cases in 2016 in which even people with severe disabilities have seen these services cut or their applications rejected entirely. Sweden's newspapers are furious.

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Sweden: Socialstyrelsen: The Swedish Disability Policy http://www.socialstyrelsen.se/disability

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