Rachel Chiu reflects on the importance of lived experience as she takes up a new role with SSAC
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I grew up in a first-generation immigrant household, and having experiences of homelessness and disability within our family, we were supported by social security benefits which provided a stepping stone out of poverty, but also demonstrated to me some of …