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Stop the Abolition of DLA

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Glitterknickaz · 16/01/2011 13:19

The government are proposing to get rid of DLA in favour of PIP. full consultation here

Riven started a fantastic thread in Chat with the very pertinent point that this applies to everyone, that every one of us could be just one step from disability themselves.

There is NOTHING in the media about this. These proposals could mean poverty for the disabled and their families in this country. It could leave some in residential care completely isolated from their families and support networks through the removal of the mobility component.

My family has already been hit three times through the NHS, education and aiming high, via the cuts, if they now remove the money from our pockets we are going to be in a heat or eat situation.

Please MNHQ do something, as many are oblivious to these proposals and what they will mean, including those who themselves already claim DLA.

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sleepysox · 16/01/2011 16:34

I'll back you! I've posted a message to you on my thread.

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Maelstrom · 16/01/2011 16:35

Marking my place

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bigcar · 16/01/2011 16:37

missed the other thread but I'm in Smile

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sarah293 · 16/01/2011 16:38

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ThatVikRinA22 · 16/01/2011 16:40

fucking hell - they want rid of DLA now? ill back you aswell. marking this thread for later when i can get back to see what i need to do

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sarah293 · 16/01/2011 16:43

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noddyholder · 16/01/2011 16:44

This govt seem prepared to stop at nothing If they keep going like this the student riots and flying fire extinguishers will be the least of their worries.I really feel people are going to take to the streets

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ilovesprouts · 16/01/2011 16:45

im in ive post on the other thread too !!

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Glitterknickaz · 16/01/2011 19:05

Sorry I didn't realise you weren't supposed to post here unless it was an agreed campaign Blush, but please don't delete MNHQ.

We need a voice and the media are not giving us that.

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cornslik · 16/01/2011 19:15

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ANTagony · 16/01/2011 19:19

I'm in. I wish they'd stop confusing DLA and incapacity benefit. Because we all know that you just phone up and they dole out DLA its that easy! (excluding the pile of reports too thick to fit in the post box, 5 additional independent reports they requested from various specialists and rather complex form)

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jooseyfruit · 16/01/2011 19:23

what can we do? does anyone know of any protests being organised? this makes me so so angry.

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GooseFatRoasties · 16/01/2011 19:25

I support this too.

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MrsShrekTheThird · 16/01/2011 19:26

count me in :)

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Northernlurker · 16/01/2011 19:40

Oh LOrd! jUst read the bit about them taking in to account aids and adaptations. Angry

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sarah293 · 16/01/2011 19:48

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MrsShrekTheThird · 16/01/2011 20:02
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bullet234 · 16/01/2011 20:06

Count me in as well.

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cleanandclothed · 16/01/2011 20:09

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daisy5678 · 16/01/2011 20:10

I'm (obviously) backing this.

The consultation gives a few reasons for getting rid of adult DLA and for considering changing children's:

  1. we will change it to PIP instead of DLA because some people believe you can't work on DLA (wonder why that is - maybe because politicians keep linking DLA with worklessness), which kinda implies they want more people to realise that they can claim it (ha) which contradicts...

  2. we want to save 20%

  3. we think the current system's crap.

    I agree with number 3, but surely the way to solve that isn't to chuck it all away and spend huge sums of money that we apparently don't have on re-branding and assessing it.

    I think number 1 is cynical and number 2 frankly disgusting when the pensioners are still awash with heating payments that many of them don't need, especially if they're in Spain or loaded. So it's OK for pensioners to carry on as they were but not disabled people? Makes me Angry.

    The idea that you judge a civilised society on how it looks after its most vulnerable is, I hope, giving the Coalition sleepless nights over shite like this. However, the scariest thing is that I suspect most of them won't give it a second thought.
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daisy5678 · 16/01/2011 20:13
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MissQue · 16/01/2011 20:16

Don't forget the removal of mobility allowance for people in residential care. Because if you're in a care home you don't need independence, you don't need to get out and about, to work or socialise or deal with your own everyday business or get to hospital and doctor's appointments, or....

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madhairday · 16/01/2011 20:27

Adding my total support here.
Just to add that the new system will be even more against those with fluctuating and invisible conditions. Again the most vulnerable being penalised.

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MissQue · 16/01/2011 20:41

Absolutely madhair, people with mental illness, autism, epilepsy, all kinds of debilitating and life affecting conditions will suddenly find themselves without essential assistance. It's the most evil cut of all. At least students can work to pay their student loans, middle class parents can do without £20 a week etc.

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