Stop the Abolition of DLA

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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.

Stupid yes

Astonishing sadly no

Though in fairness I don;t think it's too bad egre for that sort of thing but Assembly cuts a year behind apparently

£3 million!

Lenin - what are they expecting parents to do to get their children to these much needed school places? My God, it's hard enough getting a disabled child a place in mainstream or special school, with the support that they need, you fight and fight just to get that.

It takes months and months of form filling, waiting, fighting just to get the most basic of help and give a child with SN/LD the right to an education.

And now they cut the budget for getting children to the schools?

This is just getting worse the more I read.

What can we do?

People think why should they get a taxi to school you see so they get away with it. I don;t think many relaise we are whole famillies not simple mum- dad- sn child entities.

But ds1 will attend a base ten miles one way from September; ds2 the local primary; ds3 a base twn miles in the opposite direction, ds4 the infants of lcoal primary (pre-school)

I can't even pick one up as I have to be there for the other getting home. And still pick up ds4 obviously; ds2 couldwalk home alone, not so sure about a 3 year old LOL.

Well, if DH packed in his career I guess we could pick one up but that would the state a FORTUNE.

Luckily the SEN dept here get the whole more than one child issue so I think would still help us.

I cpuldn't home ed ds1 and ds3 together and guarantee ds3's safety so I might do an ostrich on this one for the time being LOL

'Why are people so obsessed with low taxes?'

becasue
It Couldnt Happen To Them

It's just so atrocious.

There'd have to be a bbus for ds's to use it; ds1 could technically get to central depot then catch one but couldnt manage

ds3 would ttake hours, and would never arrive, dependent on escort

Hsve you seen Leonard Cheshires campaign around cuts to DLA mobility allowance. They have petition people can sign here www.lcdisability.org/?lid=15392

and lots of info around the campaign
www.lcdisability.org/?lid=14585

hannahdla

It's a good idea to sign that petition along with the one I posted above - the Leonard Cheshire one is just about the mobility allowance, whereas the wider reforms should be objected to as well.

I have signed every petition on this page. Thank you everyone. I am very scared; my DLA is the only benefit we claim. Our income is less than 15K. There are people in our area who are worse off than we are; we're managing because of the DLA but without it we won't.

Jux, please don't worry too much. The Broken of Britain is going to fight this tooth and nail, and you're not alone. I'm putting together a consultation submission for the group. If you want to, click on the link I pasted above and take part in crafting the submission. I'm looking for testimonies, especially from Mums and family carers, so maybe you can help me.

Jux - can you not get Tax Credits? Or Housing Benefit/Council Tax reduction?

Sorry, just thinking out loud. Obv I don't know your situation.

FioFio
"This is all incredibly depressing".

In my opinion "incredibly depressing" is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to describing what it's like.

In my opinion for me it's awful especially not having been officially diagnosed with mental health and neurological problems I have to cope with most days.

The position I am in now in regards to how I feel is not good, I just see my future as a bleak wasteland.

Anyway onto a more positive note if there is really such a thing, I am glad to have found this place through mention of it on the BBC Ouch! Messageboards.

Rather disappointing that the petition hasn't even got 4000 out of 10000 yet but I guess there is still time, after all the petition was started in December 2010.

Hope I didn't come across as self-involved my voicing how I currently feel. I am really not a person who is selfish and self-involved, I just needed a little moany vent.

Rhydian - just to say thanks for all the work on the Broken of Britain etc. I am trying to get my head round the DLA consultation (just reading the document makes you lose heart.........). Your letter to Maria Miller really says it all.

Has there been any answer to the question about the ridiculous timing of the consuluation (the short curtailed-by-Christmas-and-the-weather period) and the fact that it is so poorly publicised. I first came across news of it on here and from there found B of B and BenefitScroungingScum. But otherwise I would have been in ignorance of the whole thing. The Guardian (bless them!) seem to be the only mainstream media that are covering it. The BBC news website did not even cover the opening of the consutation. (Shame on them!)

I am in receipt of DLA and am lucky to have some time on my hands to pursue this. It could have been so different.

in answer to you question about my mother, she died, in an accident, when i was young, this bieng one of the reasons i attended a military boarding school. as an adult i decided that killing for a living was not for me so while there is no consscription the queen looks after my guns

happy now?

Good to read the info and see that people are posting and signing the petitions. I will write another blog post this evening.

Can I ask those who have spent more time with this something?

My Dad gets DLA due to his COPD and chronic asthma conditions. I told him that he has to look into the reforms, and what it would mean to him.

He said that the reforms are only to root out those who are of working age and should be working.

Which tells me we need to do more to show the general public what the reforms will really do.

But do you know if it is true that they will not reassess retired DLA claimants? He maintains they won't reassess him.

what is happening to the sick and disabled now makes me ashamed to be british. cameron said that he new how hard it was to fill in the forms and get dla why did he need to claim he is a millionair. seems to me that the tories and hitler would have got along well. we must stop the changes to dla because if you have it now it is a cert that it will be taken away on your renewal date. if we do not protect the sick and disabled then we are on the slippery slope to god knows what. up the revolution.

Mme - that would make sense wouldn't it? If your dad is of retirement age, I can't see that they'd for him into actively seeking work.

Well, you'd like to hope not.

Can you ask anyone for him?

I thought that you couldn't get DLA over the age of 65?

you can not claim dla if you are 65 or over but it does not stop when you reach 65.