Mat is deaf and says that his job has become almost impossible. He says, “Access to Work promised funding for the interpreters I need to do my job. Much of my time in the last six months has been spent responding to Access to Work cuts and endless requests for information on what I do each minute of the day, or about project users which I am not at liberty to share. It’s been a real challenge to deal with the workload of all this, let alone the work I’m expected to do in my day job.” They have withheld payments, and the interpreting agency Mat uses is now owed more than £10K. He says, “I rely on my interpreting service. It’s very important that I’m not seen as a ‘bad debt’ and it’s unfair on a small agency to ask them to keep delivering when they have not been paid.”