ScienceGeek Report post Posted January 31, 2012 The welfare reform bill will be passing back to the house of commons from the house of lords tomorrow and it is highly likely that the coalition government are going to try to reverse the few changes that were managed by the house of lords. Amendments such as making contributory ESA (WRAG) available only for one year being extended to 2 years instead. Overall it is still a very bad bill. The change over from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence payment the government admits it is to save 20% of the budget. The care component will be down to 2 rates and the biggest losers are likely to be those who are currently in receipt of the lower rate care component for DLA which tend to be people with mental health problems, autism spectrum disorders and learning disabilities. This will make people more dependent upon social care and the NHS and considering local authorities are tightening their criteria for care to substantial or critical only people with low level needs will slip through the cracks altogether. Pat Onions has a petition up on the government e-petition site and so far there are nearly 27,000 signatures. We need a lot more than that for them to take any notice of it. I am ashamed to live in a country that is so big yet we can only manage so few signatures for what will be effecting so many people. This is not just about disabled people it's the working poor, families, elderly people, the government is taking away from everybody and trying to divide us by getting us to squabble about our one section. We need to join forces, we don't have much time to do something about this. So please could you sign this petition and pass it on to as many people as you know, the more people we can get to sign the better. I wouldn't normally post things on so many places but this is really important and if it goes through in the current form it will devastate a lot of peoples lives. Thank you for reading and many thanks in advance. For more information about the welfare reform bill here are a few good sites that go through in a lot more detail about the changes: http://www.wheresthebenefit.blogspot.com/ http://thebrokenofbritain.blogspot.com/ http://www.benefitscroungingscum.blogspot.com/ http://www.latentexistence.me.uk/ http://www.dpac.uk.net/ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/lisa-egan/welfare-reform-bill-protest-_b_1239973.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trekster Report post Posted January 31, 2012 Thanks for posting about this mate, is it the same petition that i signed a few days ago via your fb wall? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ScienceGeek Report post Posted February 2, 2012 Yes it is the same petition was just passing it around a few places Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JeanneA Report post Posted February 3, 2012 Hi I've just signed the petition. I guess that if this bill is passed it will come into affect from 2013 would I be right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Adam Mars Report post Posted February 5, 2012 On another front, there's now an e-petition to cap MP's salaries at the same level they want to cap benefits. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/28476 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aeolienne Report post Posted April 6, 2012 On another front, there's now an e-petition to cap MP's salaries at the same level they want to cap benefits. http://epetitions.di...petitions/28476 £26000 annual salary is more than I've ever earned! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
