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Thread #132930   Message #3013296
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
22-Oct-10 - 05:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Spending Cuts UK - The Thread
Subject: RE: BS: Spending Cuts UK - The Thread
Those " genuinely"   disabled will have nothing to fear.

Clearly I misjudged Richie.

I'll spell out some of the information that has been in the links he evidently didn't bother to open, and in the media reports he hasn't troubled to read.

People in care homes who have been ruled eligible for the higher rate severe disability allowance are "genuinely" disabled by any standards. The Disability Allowance has two parts - there is a "care" component and a "mobility" component. People in residential care do not receive the care component, or any other benefits - they are passed directly to the care home. However there is one exception, the mobility component, which is payable to the person with the disability. They can use it to buy a powered wheelchair perhaps, or to pay for a taxi to take them out, or to enable a relative to visit, and so forth.

And that is what it is now going to be taken away from them. Not because of anything they have failed to do, or anything they have done - but because the government have the power to do it and have chosen to use that power.