(Westminster) The Coalition Government plans to scrap the Disability Living Allowance in next week’s Budget which will be introduced by Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne in the House of Commons in Parliament. The Government plans to save over £1 billion pounds in the budget by scrapping the disability living allowance by 2014/15.
The Coalition Government wants to introduce a new Personal Independence Payment and with it new medical tests and new assessments. Huge momentum is gathering against the plans to scrap the disability living allowance – a lifeline to the disabled including Britain’s Autism Community. Autism campaigners are urging David Cameron, the UK Prime Minister to save the disability living allowance. A range of UK charities have voiced their serious concerns in the national and local media, over the plans to scrap the DLA.
The UK Autism Foundation has appealed to Prime Minister David Cameron to keep the disability living allowance, stating that ‘if they scrap the DLA it could drive parents, carers and people with autism deeper into poverty.’
It is still not too late to join the Save the Disability Living Allowance Campaign:
*You can write to Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and DWP Secretary Iain Duncan Smith urging them to keep the DLA.
*Contact your member of parliament in the House of Commons about your concerns. Ask to meet your MP.
*Contact your local media about the Save the Disability Living Allowance Campaign. Share your stories.
*Join the massive campaign on twitter – just mention welfare reforms, disability living allowance, dla on Twitter.
* Use Facebook to send a clear message to the Coalition Government about the disability living allowance.
* Tweet about the welfare reforms and the disability living allowance on the United Nations World Autism Awareness Day 2011 Twitter Storm on Saturday 2nd April. Thousands of people are planning to tweet for autism to mark the international event.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackAt this particular time of finding this out I am ASHAMED to be British! I too am disgusted with this latest attack on the vulnerable! if both my daughter or son lost their DLA it would be the end to any independence they have achieved. DLA gives the disabled a voice! it helps them integrate as much as is possible in the community, should DLA be stopped all the good work that goes on to give the disabled as comfortable a time as their needs allow will be gone/wasted,
removing every last piece of dignity they have removing the DLA is a personal attack on the disabled! does the government want to revert back 100’s of years to where the disabled were institutionalised, forgotten about because without this this is exactly what will happen!
This money is a life line to a lot of families, what is wrong with this government? the rich keep getting richer the poor and vulnerable keep being spat on! I am so annoyed, the government should stop wasting money on this bloody war, stop wasting money on sending every household for example that useless CENSUS FORM!, start listening and treating the vulnerable and disabled with the dignity they deserve and keep their DLA !!!
Sandra, please join the ACT NOW campaign Autism Campaigners Together in the UK on Facebook. They also have a blog and are very active http://www.autism campaigners.blogspot.com
Thank you for this campaign on the DLA. Why are the majority of MPs not listening to us? According to news stories even Ed Miliband supports the abolition of the DLA. So where do we stand? The Conservative/Lib Dem cabinet are full of multi-millionaires, so is the Opposition front bench. So do they know what it really means to be poor, what it really means to make ends meet plus having autistic children? Do they really care? I think not. They will push for cutting everything for the disabled – no skin off their backs – many of them are probarbly having off shore bank accounts.
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