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In Touch: The Cost of Living Crisis; Discontinuation of Sonata

The Cost of Living Crisis; Discontinuation of Sonata

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, The Cost of Living Crisis; Discontinuation of Sonata

We discuss how the cost of living crisis is continuing to impact visually impaired people.

Kim Jaye tells us how the cost of living crisis is impacting her and the RNIB tell us what they are doing to help. The BWFBF are discontinuing the Sonata Internet Audio device.

Our new Prime Minister, Liz Truss hasn't yet offered assurances to people receiving disability related benefits during the current rises in inflation and wider cost of living increases. This has concerned visually impaired grandmother and benefit receiver Kim Jaye. We invited her onto the program to explain her current situation and her added costs due to her visual impairment. The RNIB only last week handed in a petition to the Department for Work and Pensions about how the cost of living crisis is impacting visually impaired and blind people. Their Director of Insight and Customer Voice, David Aldwinckle explains the contents of the petition and their future plans to help blind and partially sighted people through the cost of living crisis. 

The British Wireless for the Blind Fund have announced that they are to be discontinuing their Sonata Internet Audio service by the end of October. Kim O'Neil uses the service and explains to us why the device offers such an important and unmatched service and the Fund's Jenny Cameron tells us the reason behind the discontinuation.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Beth Hemmings	 
Production Coordinator: Liz Poole 
Website image description: Peter White sits smiling in the centre of the image. He is wearing a dark green jumper with the collar of a check shirt peeking at the top. Above Peter's head is the BBC logo, Across Peter's chest reads "In Touch" and beneath that is the Radio 4 logo. The background is a series of squares that are different shades of blue.

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