Social exclusion in households with members with disabilities during the Spanish economic crisis

This article analyses the impact that the economic crisis has had on discrimination, poverty and social exclusion among people with disabilities and households with members with disabilities. For this analysis, a series of surveys conducted by the FOESSA Foundation in 2007, 2009 and 2013 were used. The effect of the economic crisis has not been as great among people with disabilities and households that include members with disabilities as among the overall Spanish population. However, the fact that poverty and exclusion levels among the former group remained higher than those of the overall Spanish population reflects the limitations of current social policies in changing this situation which affects the human rights of people with disabilities.