Petition re mobility component of DLA

[rosemary]

Please read the details here

The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign has launched a new petition to call on the Government to drop proposals to remove the Disability Living Allowance Mobility Component for people living in residential care – including children attending residential schools.

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[charles47]

Signed.

[rosemary]

Thanks Charles

[Parsifal]

Done with strong message in the comment section.

[rosemary]

You little beauty Annie, many thanks

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[Parsifal]

Easy, it could me in the future, but I added the message that removal of the DLA component to those in residential care would be a return to the ghettoisation of the most severely disabled in institutional care, hidden from public view and unable to participate in wider society which I had already identified as a need which the DLA mobility component meets.

[Myrtle]

Done

[jbarleycorn]

DLA is being scrapped anyway so any debate about the mobility component would seem redundant.

[Parsifal]

"Scrapped" would suggest that it will no longer exist in any form, the proposals are to change its name and change the eligibility criteria thereby cutting the number of people with entitlement, I believe that the ill-thought-out, unjustifable intent to completely remove entitlement to the mobility component from a specific group needs fighting as much as the equally ill-thought-out, unjustifiable proposals currently out for consultation.

[jbarleycorn]

"Scrapped" would suggest that it will no longer exist in any form

That's correct

[Parsifal]

"Scrapped" would suggest that it will no longer exist in any form

That's correct

That may be the long-term intention but the current proposals are to remove entitlement from many, not all, of those who receive it or would have been entitled to it in the future, you can only fight the current proposals not something which may or may not happen. If completely scrapping DLA is the ultimate intention, and there is no tangible evidence at the moment that it is, surely that gives us all the more reason to oppose every unjustified cut in entitlement or do we say go ahead, keep cutting entitlement until so few receive it government can argue that there is no justification for its continued existence? You only have to look at the changes in entitlement leading to the closure of the ILF to realise how important it is that those who need it continue to receive it in its current form.

[jbarleycorn]

Winning a short term victory (which is unlikely as Milliband supports all of Cameron's Welfare Reforms) would be futile as DLA in its entirety, including any entitlement to High Rate Mobility allowance as it seems to be known, would be abolished in 2014 anyway.

Unless there is some big opposition from Milliband then DLA will be abolished in due course, consultation or not.

They are not duty bound to take any notice of these "consultations" anyway. Its all just a smokescreen to cover up the cuts to pay for the banks, both here and in other countries it would seem now.

We (that includes this and other charities) need to say loud and clear "get lost Tories we don't need to make any cuts in benefits".

I doubt somehow that will happen as the Tory government has offered c £14,000 per claimant any charity "helps into employment". Tends to buy the silence of many charities.