dla mobility to be stopped?

shazza
shazza Member Posts: 13
edited 21. Oct 2010, 03:19 in Living with Arthritis archive
i have just read on virgin news room that the dla mobility is going to be stopped, how are we suppose to manage without it and what if you have a mobility car? are they going to take it off you.
i rely on my mobility car to get me around and if i didn't have it, i would be house bound.
Any body else read about this?.
shazza

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  • speedalong
    speedalong Member Posts: 3,315
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Not heard this yet Shazza, if you have a link, post it.

    That would be terrible for so many folks.

    SPeedy
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  • shazza
    shazza Member Posts: 13
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    speedalong wrote:
    Not heard this yet Shazza, if you have a link, post it.

    That would be terrible for so many folks.

    SPeedy

    sorry i don't know how to link it but its on virgin media .com under welfare cuts.
    shazza
  • salamander
    salamander Member Posts: 1,906
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I've just read that they are scrapping the mobility part of the allowance for people in residential care. The reasoning being is that they don't get out much anyway.

    There is some info on this link
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/20/spending-review-hidden-pain-gain
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    livinglegend has posted about this on delboy's budget thread on chitchat. 2014 is the proposed date I think, but it is a long while until then, so things may change. DD
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  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am pretty sure that it is only those in residential care that will lose it.. At least that's what they were saying on the news earlier.

    Tony
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  • lavenderlady
    lavenderlady Member Posts: 409
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I just read its for those in residential care on the BBC1 website list of benefits that are changing, so hopefully it wont affect many of us,
  • livinglegend
    livinglegend Member Posts: 1,425
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    It will only affect those in permanent residential care, who don't need assistance with transport anyway.

    Everyone else will continue to get it, unless you are forced to attend an Atos/DWP medical, then you automatically lose all benefits so that the 'medical professionals' get their fat-cat bonuses.

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  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    livinglegend wrote:
    It will only affect those in permanent residential care, who don't need assistance with transport anyway.

    Everyone else will continue to get it, unless you are forced to attend an Atos/DWP medical, then you automatically lose all benefits so that the 'medical professionals' get their fat-cat bonuses.

    Joseph 8)

    Well said, I would like to see someone emply me when I can't even get out of bed or function at all most days.. :)

    Tony
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