We Are Spartacus, an online campaign group about disabled people's views on the welfare system, analysed figures from the Department for Work and Pensions and Motability, the organisation that supplies lease cars and specialist converted vehicles to disabled people claiming the highest mobilityrate of Disability Living Allowance.
Lawson had claimed higher ratemobility allowance, intended for those who cannot walk, and lower rate care allowance, meant for those who need help in the home.
Divorced people "have more chronic conditions, more mobility limitations, rate their health as poorer than people like them in age, race, gender, education who've been married once and are still married, " Waite said.