The Government has announced a one billion pound cut to Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
Next week in parliament, MPs will debate plans for a new system which could make it much harder for adults with autism to claim DLA. We have a chance to make them think again.
Our Who benefits? report demonstrates what a lifeline DLA is for many adults with autism and their families.
We need to do everything we can make sure the Government’s plans do not unfairly disadvantage people with autism.
We need you to ask your MP to help protect this crucial benefit for people with autism.
Thanks for your support.
Jane Asher
President
National Autistic Society
P.S. Following a survey of our campaigners, you now can send an email using an easy read form.
The DLA has enhanced my life and given me Independance and has also helped me to inprove my life. I use the DLA To help me to pay for a councellor which has increased my sense of well being as well as my mental health and my socialising skills.
This Regime is Worse than Depressing it is Depressingly Destructive.
The Expenses Gravy Train For Politicians Needs to
be Ended Not Disability Living Allowance which Needs
to be Increased
This Mantra and Politician Soundbite of a ” Big Society ” is Rather Orwellian .
This subject is very poignant in my local community right now. A lovely, talented young man aged 16 took his own life two weeks ago by jumping in front of a mainline train. He had an autistic spectrum disorder. He and his family coped so well that many people may not have been aware of it. We need a compassionate society where what people suffer in private is taken into account. Not just knee jerk reactions about whether someone is physically able to work or not.
My MP is in full support of the changes and will not listen to reason. I am at a loss as to what to do now.
The Problem is MP’S They are Politicians .
Better a Billion Pound Cut in Politicians Salaries than upon any
Benefit or Service
They Politicians are Neither a Benefit or Service .
From Tuition Fees to a Wide Range of Issues they Live in their
Little Worlds and Do Not Listen
Increase DLA and Disband Parliament the Gravy Train of Politicians
I Hear that there will be Demonstrations outside Atos Centres apart
from the 11th of May One.
The Regime must Go Not Disability Living Allowance for the Disabled
and Vulnerable .
The Regime is the Waste of Money .
Protests must Address the Root of the Problem namely an Out of
Touch Arrogant and Appalling Dictatorship of Millionaires
I don’t often shout but: PLEASE PROTECT DLA FOR THOSE UNABLE TO PROTECT IT FOR THEMSELVES! By its very nature, those eventually granted DLA have gone through hoops, often via their very hard working carers: It’s not incapacity benefit (they renamed that, ESA – wtf does that mean?), which can be short term but very necessary to claimants, it’s for those with long term disabilities they will perhaps never overcome! Where has compassion gone?????
Do not expect compassion in the elite of ‘haves’ in this country. Be it Tory, Labour, Liberal or just grasping big business in general. They will not rest until all of us who can be are strapped to ‘their’ get rich machine, including many who cannot be through ill health.
We no longer live in a Society. We just live in an economy and are just drones to produce more (h)oney for them. It has been like it for 30 years. Work harder. Work longer. Work smarter. From Tebbit’s bike to Browns bloody prudence. Bread tomorrow. Except of course, surprise surprise, most of us have never bloody seen the bread yet in those 30 years. The grasping elite have. What do they do with it? Bust the fecking bank with it and then still blame us.
I would say the drones amongst us deserve it, were it not for the now inevitable atrocious and vile attacks on the sick and vulnerable. We could and should have started defending ourselves decades ago. The fact most of us did not, and still don’t, has given the green light for this savagery. Against those of us who cannot defend themselves.
I am so deeply ashamed to be British right now. The two generations before us who gave and lost so much, must be screaming in their graves.
Anyone who is not screaming with anger right now may as well be dead as far as my morality has it. Still screaming that most do not wait that long.
It is Good to See Protests outside ATOS Centres and the Whole Mess of
Privitisation .
This Arrogant Wealth Apartheid Millionaires Regime must Go and so must
the None so Blind as Those who Will Not See and the I’am All Right Jack’s
who are as much Part of the Problem.
I Cannot Say Right Now I would get into Uniform and Right for this
Hellhole of a Country against People from Overseas who have Done me
No Wrong but until this Country is Liberated from the Eternity of
Oppression System Slavery Capitalism will Not be Defeated .
The British of WW1 who Endured all the Misery of the Trenches because
of Stupid Politicians were Promised Home’s Fit For Heroes instead got
Poverty and Oppression and another Bloody Horrible War when Eastern
Europe Ended Up under the Stalin Terror Tyranny and the Cossacks were
Sold Down the River and Not Even a National Minimum Wage until After
1997
This Country is a Disgrace to Civilisation in it’s Present State .
We Need Real Change which Revolution Political Economic and Social Offers
a Better Reality Not Further Oblivion because of 3 Political Parties thinking they have the Automatic Right to Rule the Country.
Scrap MP’S Expenses they are the Scroungers Not the Oppressed Poor and
Vulnerable
£600 Pounds a Week Wages is Probably More than what Many are Getting
but it is But a Fraction of Bonuses or a MP’S Salary at £62,000 Pounds
a Year .
The Drones amongst Us are More Dead than the Undead and Collaborators
with Oppression and Tyranny.
More Protests Better Policies and No Politicians Censuses or Database
State
Your phrase, Leon, “we no longer live in a society, we live in an economy” says everything, totally summed it up. We aren’t who we are, we’re what we’re worth. Devastating. The most depressing truism I’ve read in years.
Now we need to change it.
Thanks Jayne. Yes it is exactly that. The tail wagging the fecking dog. They turned ‘working to live’ on it’s head for most drones like us decades back. So long ago so many now cannot spot the difference.
Yes we need to change it. Forgive the theme. I tried voting against it in 1979. Again. Again. Yet again. But even when the party I voted for got in Govt, they just took everything I am against to a new high.
Maybe we will start getting somewhere if they are just more honest on the ballot papers. Instead of Party’s and individuals maybe they could just list corporate names as in Virgin, News International, Centrica (British Gas), or Trillium and Atos. The list goes on and on. Each of the grasping corporate gangsters have more of an effect on our day to lives than any politician now does. Yet even the bleedin shareholders have to fight for a vote. In a cartel of Russian Oligarchs and unnacountable monsters.
Voting for a lovely listening MP is quaint. But it is not going to change that. It is a vote for it.