New petition launched: Save DLA Mobility Component
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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.
DLA Mobility Component helps to meet the higher costs of accessible public transport (where available), or makes you eligible for an adapted vehicle through the Motability scheme.
Without DLA Mobility Component thousands of adults of all ages with severe disabilities who are supported by the state to live in residential care will be unable to retain voluntary employment or simply to visit family and friends. Many families with children attending residential schools will not be able to fund their own adapted vehicle, and as residential schools only provide transport for the start and end of term, with no extra provision for weekends or holidays, disabled children may end up stuck as a prisoners in their own home during school holidays, unable to take part in leisure activities, or even attend essential hospital appointments.
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To remove DLA from those in care or residential homes removes independence, the very thing thing that DLA is designed to encourage. Benefit reform should be intended to improve, not to take giant leaps backwards
As you may be aware the Government are cynically abolishing DLA and
replacing it with something called PIP. This means ALL those currently getting High Rate Mobility potentially could lose it, not just those in Care Homes etc.
The debate should not be about how to implement PIP but on how to save DLA.
Therefore please encourage all your members to sign the following Petition:-
http://www.petitiononline.co.uk/petition/petition-the-minister-for-disabled-people-to-recall-the-public-consultation-on-dla-reform/569
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Petition the Minister for Disabled People to Recall the Public
Consultation on DLA Reform
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