THE Community Action Party has started a campaign to stop the abolition of Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
From 2013, everyone receiving DLA will be reassessed for the new system of Personal Independence Payments by the controversial company ATOS.
DLA has been responsible for transforming the lives of millions of people in the UK living with disabilities and/or long-term illness.
It has been one of the few things that has demonstrated the compassion of our country in that we try to look after the most vulnerable in our society.
Central government, in abolishing DLA, are using the changes to make savage cuts of around 20 per cent of what is paid out now. Thousands of people in Bolton, under the new system, will have their benefit slashed or have it stopped altogether.
Please sign our online petition to “Stop the Abolition of Disability Living Allowance for Personal Independence Payments” by going to http://epetitions.direct.
gov.uk/petitions/38182 to help us force parliament o relook at the matter. Thank you.
Michael Moulding Deputy Leader Community Action Party Wyndham Avenue Clifton
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