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DLA or AA if you get either please read now

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Eeyore13

Eeyore13 Report 11 Aug 2009 08:42

Please add-this will effect so many people :(

Eeyore13

Eeyore13 Report 10 Aug 2009 17:59

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YorkshireCaz

YorkshireCaz Report 10 Aug 2009 09:19

Thanks for this Eeyore, I like to spend my DLA on making my life comfortable now, I know what I need and when.

Caz

Researching:
Davies, Kitson, Cooper, Dewsbury, Eccleshill in Idle, Bradford

Eeyore13

Eeyore13 Report 9 Aug 2009 20:44

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Deanna

Deanna Report 9 Aug 2009 18:12


So glad we have a labour government.......

DO YOU SEE MY TONGUE STICKING IN MY CHEEK??
Deanna X

Deanna

Deanna Report 9 Aug 2009 18:04

ENGLAND ONLY?
Well I am in England... and I do not relish anyone else handling my finances, I am better than the Government at handling money anyway!

Off to sign the petition.
Deanna X

LittleWhiteDove2022351

LittleWhiteDove2022351 Report 9 Aug 2009 16:56

Thankyou eeyore for posting this. personally I knew nothing about this.iT'S DISGUSTING. our councils waste enough money without giving them ours to mess up with..
Flipping heck they'll be nicking my bed from under me next !!!
Tricia x

michael2

michael2 Report 9 Aug 2009 16:17

hi tried the link does not work for me would like to read it any idea,s

Pauline $(*-*)$

Pauline $(*-*)$ Report 9 Aug 2009 14:31


I've joined the campaign, just signed it.

Sue

Sue Report 9 Aug 2009 14:12

I have skimmed though all 136 pages of the green paper, this proposal relates to England only.

Apart from their justification for benefits being reassigned to local authorities being repeated over and over they make the proposal sound like they are being terribly considerate to people who have equity in their properties.

They state (as I understand it), home owners would not have to sell their homes and reduce the total value of their estate to > £23k in order to pay for their care and then have the cost covered by the state. Oh no, they will wait until the person in care has died and then reclaim the total costs from their estate. How the hell that would be monitored fairly is a mystery to me.

They are putting the emphasis on 'fairness', people who have been careful with their money throughout their lives should have the same entitlement to benefits as the less well off (read that as destitute). One proposal is that people should pay into an insurance policy throughout their working lives or actually in retirement to cover the anticipated costs of care. Great eh? How many of us have fought and are currently fighting insurance companies for the benefit we are entitled to? Just what you need when you are due to go into a care home a bloody fight for your benefits from the underwriters.

If you want a cynical laugh tempered with apoplexy it's worth a read.

Sue x

Eeyore13

Eeyore13 Report 9 Aug 2009 14:02

Please go on the link & sign,this will have horrific repercussions for anyone receiving these benefits

A government green paper has revealed plans to stop paying disability benefits and hand the cash over to social services instead.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/disability-living-allowance-(dla)/dla-aa-cuts