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
Nearly one in three people in England have a long term condition, and many of these conditions are 'invisible' or not easily noticeable to someone else.
It's funny. I expect that many, many people think that having people coming in to do things for you every day must be really nice. Some may even be willing to pay quite a lot of money for the privilege. But, for a disabled person who has to rely on carers for everything it's not always that good. I hate it.
On the 13th of January disabled people from across the country will be lobbying their MPs to reverse planned changes to employment support allowance (ESA). Twitter: #BenefitsLobby