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The Centre for Welfare Reform has shown comprehensively that 25% of the cuts fall on the 3% of the population who are most severely disabled. £9bn of the total £89bn deficit cutting programme affects ... Show more »The Centre for Welfare Reform has shown comprehensively that 25% of the cuts fall on the 3% of the population who are most severely disabled. £9bn of the total £89bn deficit cutting programme affects disabled people directly. The work capacity assessment is draconian and inappropriate for many people with severe or fluctuating conditions. You must be seeing many people in your surgeries who are on the breadline and who have lost or are terrified of losing the vital support they need to survive at the most basic level. Without proper but already insufficient, support, the weakest are often unable to leave their homes, pay basic living costs or in some cases wash or eat. For example, it has been reported that there are only 18 local councils left out of around 100 that provide social care for people with 'moderate' needs, who are defined as those needing assistance with bathing and eating. What is happening to people in other areas? The withdrawal of benefits has already lead to at least one known suicide as emotionally depicted at this week's demonstration at the ATOS head office in London. Proposed deep cuts to disability living allowance and the time limiting of Employment Support Allowance to only 12 months for people who had no way of knowing in advance of becoming ill, that the goalposts would change, will also have a huge negative impact on people who are already experiencing financial hardship and are struggling to cope with the basics of life. Even in your own borough of Richmond upon Thames, where disability living allowance is given by the Government with one hand, it is taken by the Council with the other hand to pay for personal care. For a young sick person trying to start out in life, struggling through a university course against the odds and hoping to find a way to earn a little income, this is cripplingly restricting as it takes away money she desperately needs to live and also will charge her, pound for pound for every little bit of income she ever manages to gain to try and improve her lot in life. You seem like a kind and decent man. How can you allow your party in government to support the measures currently being put forward that target those who are desperate and in need over those who can afford to pay? Show less »
Submitted by: smilingblue | 3 votes for this..
0 comments | Topic: Politics | Report |
Dear Vince Cable When will the coalition let overseas pensioners know exactly what is planned for their state pensions? Will they remain frozen or will the NIF surplus be used to make sure all pensions... Show more »Dear Vince Cable When will the coalition let overseas pensioners know exactly what is planned for their state pensions? Will they remain frozen or will the NIF surplus be used to make sure all pensions are indexed no matter where the pensioner lives in the world? Show less »
Submitted by: dianelvin | 5 votes for this..
Vince Cable’s letter to local authority chief execs and business leaders asks: 1.Business leaders to come together to consider forming local enterprise partnerships 2.It proposes that responsibility ... Show more »Vince Cable’s letter to local authority chief execs and business leaders asks: 1.Business leaders to come together to consider forming local enterprise partnerships 2.It proposes that responsibility for sector leadership, business support, access to finance and inward investment are to be handled nationally – not by local enterprise partnerships The business focus of local enterprise partnerships would appear to be the support of business start-ups, and working with local universities and colleges. Clarity on the following would be useful; 1.Which business leaders (or type) received this letter? 2.Who in business is to be consulted about the type of support BIS intends to provide nationally 3.The type of investors it aims to attract to the UK? See www.clarityfromgovernment.com for background on open questions Show less »
Submitted by: Clarityfromgovernment | 1 votes for this..
0 comments | Topic: Business | Report |
Why is overseas aid not being suspended until we are out of debt?
Submitted by: a440dc | 4 votes for this..
"Can you tell me please, if when the Lisbon Treaty is in force, this country will remain a Common Law Jurisdiction?"
Submitted by: gulrez | 6 votes for this..
Will Harriet Harperson's latest equality Bill not place untolerable burdens on already struggling small businesses and should small businesses, with say less than 100 employees, be exempted from the ... Show more »Will Harriet Harperson's latest equality Bill not place untolerable burdens on already struggling small businesses and should small businesses, with say less than 100 employees, be exempted from the Bill? Show less »
Submitted by: stevenb | 45 votes for this..
Why, in this very difficult financial period, we do not make use of our oil assets by imposing a max price of $50 per barrel that the oil companies can take from the N Sea oil and then the uk takes 100%... Show more »Why, in this very difficult financial period, we do not make use of our oil assets by imposing a max price of $50 per barrel that the oil companies can take from the N Sea oil and then the uk takes 100% of the rest (not just the taxes) until such future date that is deemed to be fit to allow the position to be reviewed. I do not believe this cant be achieved with the will of parliament, just think if the oil goes to $100 again the uk will have additional income of at least an extra $80million a day from this levy/tax, $4 Billion a year. Just to say i have sent this plan/idea to labour and liberal and have had a typical reply which says nothing from the Treasury. Show less »
Submitted by: rexburrows | 14 votes for this..
Should the government bring in strict regulation re-establishing the separation of high-street banking and high-risk investment banking or would this be damaging to the City?
Submitted by: naomi1 | 11 votes for this..
Why are the Pensions Credit Department so inefficient and incompetent? I was married on March 24th and more than four months later I am still waiting to receive my entitlement. My wife was born ... Show more »Why are the Pensions Credit Department so inefficient and incompetent? I was married on March 24th and more than four months later I am still waiting to receive my entitlement. My wife was born in Munich and it was nearly three months before they realised that she needed a National Insurance Number!! I have been provided with so much mis-information by the Pension Credit call centre on each occasion that I have phoned them that I have lost all confidence in their ability to even run a raffle. I am a full time carer for my wife, who has multiple sclerosis, and who is in a wheelchair (which the Pension Credit people know) and it would be my proposal that all carers should have their benefit claims fast-tracked. The financial needs of people who are as severely disabled as my wife are that much greater than those who are able-bodied. How are people in my position expected to pay their bills whilst the staff of the Pension Credit Department procrastinate every day, and in every way? Many thanks, in advance, for your time Regards Geoffrey Show less »
Submitted by: Ondaeus44 | 9 votes for this..
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