Today more than 100 people with disabilities met their local MPs in Parliament to talk to them about their concerns over the government's proposed cuts to benefits, including the £30 reduction to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) in the Work Related Activity Group (WRAG). People with a learning disability, represented by Mencap, were joined by campaigners from 12 other charities who are all part of the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC).
CHILDREN who are uncoordinated, disorganised and struggle with handwriting are often simply written-off as clumsy.
Send Change your story CHANGE want people with learning disabilities to send them their employment stories.
Are you a student who might be affected to the changes to Disabled Students Allowance (DSA)? We are looking for disabled students who will be applying for DSA to start university in September 2016, with a view to a possible legal challenge.
Imagine this situation: 30% of your wage or benefits gets taken away. How would you feel? Would you be angry? Would you feel it's unfair? I would imagine you would feel both, but you would mostly feel worried right? I am in the very fortunate situation of earning a good wage and being able to afford what many people, myself included, would consider luxuries. If I was told that I would have to take a wage decrease and had no choice in it, I would feel all of the above but I would have options. I could find another job and even if I wasn't successful, I could live on a 30% reduction.
Anticipated publication date:January 2017
