tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050182808809196991.post2650927475231727389..comments2021-06-05T13:14:39.941+01:00Comments on Act Now For Autism: URGENT Call for Action!Act Now For Autismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06674964941976054998noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050182808809196991.post-52808335356758833122011-09-30T11:22:18.107+01:002011-09-30T11:22:18.107+01:00Hi Everyone this is a link that takes ed milliband...Hi Everyone this is a link that takes ed milliband to task at labour conference regarding benefits and the rhetorric they are using <br />http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2011/09/ed-m-handbagged-by-sickness-disability.htmlKyron Hodgettshttp://a4ehell.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7050182808809196991.post-38070312610321136102011-09-23T16:02:47.138+01:002011-09-23T16:02:47.138+01:00I actually got a signed letter attachment mailed b...I actually got a signed letter attachment mailed back, from Ed Miliband, though I had not given a paper address: and Margaret Curran, who is not my MP, answered with the same text. They said they voted against the Welfare Reform Bill at third reading. Had you checked that out? It seems an important fact go acknowledge. Said also, they tabled these amendments on PIP:<br /><br />· Scrap plans to abolish the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance for people in residential care homes who use this support to visit friends and family. This will affect around 80,000 people and could leave many with as little as £22 a week on which to live on. <br />· Retain automatic eligibility for disability benefits for people who have severe impairments<br />· Ensure that disabled people only have to wait 3 months before they can apply for the Personal Independence Payment, rather than the 6 months the Government proposes. <br />· Report and consult on the new assessment for PIP to ensure that the assessment is working properly and help is going to those disabled people that need it. <br />and amendments at committee stage:<br />· Extend the limit to at least two years<br />· Stop the Government from cutting the benefit for young disabled people<br />· Stop the cut from hitting immediately in April 2012<br /><br />and tried to at report stage too but the government guillotined it.<br /><br />Okay they defended ESA's introduction, but they gave ground on the WCA wexperience: "we recognise that there need to be changes to the Work Capability Assessment to make it fit for purpose, and support Professor Harrington’s review". Actually an admission that the WCA as first brought in, under Labour, was not fit for purpose.<br /><br />It is right to prod them to make all this better known, as obviously you have not heard much from them publicly about it. But I have my doubts that it was right to accuse them of "deafening silence", if it was this easy to get a clearly anti-bill position from them and find out they voted against the bill and made several worthwhile tries to amend it.ternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17710224070068773971noreply@blogger.com