Campaign to protect Disability Benefits

Government policy on disability and DLA assessment is beginning to look like a first world war tribunal committed to sending the badly wounded back into the front line at any cost. No matter about physical or sensory impairment or mental health problem, just get them off benefits and into jobs that don’t exist.

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Dear Carer Watch,

Thank you for sending me this.  I will be speaking at a TUC meeting on the Budget’s impact on women and children and will make this point there.
Best wishes
Ruth                                                                                       

Ruth Lister
Professor of Social Policy 

Thank you for your email. What I want to do, though it could take a
week or more, is to send you an extremely detailed argument around
the attack on DLA to encourage debate. I’m acknowledging in advance
that my arguments might not find favour with some of your supporters
due to my ‘radical’ views on disability, but as the coalition
demonstrates, working for a common objective doesn’t mean sharing the
same ‘worldview’. I’m also going to prepare a brief statement as well.