Be 'more open' with disabled clients - Tanni Grey-Thompson

'I’m disabled, I’m not sick'

Sophie King
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As part of the effort to end disability discrimination, multiple gold medal-winning Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson has called on financial advisers to be 'more open' when working with disabled clients.

Speaking to Professional Adviser at our sister publication Cover's health and protection summit this month, the 11-time paralympic gold medalist described how difficult it has been to get to see a financial adviser, suggesting it seemed as if they did not want to work with disabled people. "As soon as you tick 'disabled' - not even what the condition is - it will be 'right, no, we don't cover people like you'," she said. Government statistics suggest there are some 11 million people with a disability living in the UK and almost half of those (45%) are above the state pension age. In a...

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