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28% cut in ESA payments

longman

Has anyone read about this - News from the NAS - Parliamentary Review into cuts in employment and support allowance ?

The Government wants to cut money for disabled people who receive ESA, who are in the Work Related Activity Group, from April 2017.  It will not affect people already on ESA, but people who come onto ESA after that date. They will get £29 5p less a week (£73.10 instead of £102.15).

There is a Parliamentary review on this, and there is a short questionnaire on a link from the News item. They want people to speak out.

The reason - its an incentive to disabled people to get themselves into work. The Government says it will help, but so far what has their help amounted to?

The proposed cut is therefore a "Sword of Damocles" hanging over the heads of many autistic people - intimidation.

This from a Government that cannot stand up to the big companies dodging tax, and the big bosses taking massive bonuses and pay rises (Cameron is probably genuinely scared these people will bury him in concrete if he doesn't give into them). What he can always do, it seems, is make things worse for those weak and disadvantaged. They are no threat to him.

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  • Unfortunately we are all victims of the Social Model of Disability. It is a very appealing idea - that were are less able in some respects, and this can be overcome by making adjustments. There is incredible loyalty to the social model, because the alternative - that we are each individually a problem to be solved - is unthinkable.

    But in reality all the social model does is provide a few reasonable adjustments: a ramp for a wheelchair user, an auditory implant for the deaf, a compensating text writing device for dyslexia - oh and a hand held device for prompting people on the autistic spectrum.....well once they've managed one that works properly .....and is that all there is to autism?

    The curious thing is the social model appeals to all political persuasions - you cannot just grumble at the conservatives because Labour are totally committed to the social model. The TUC have produced a disability guide that is 100% behind the idea.

    And what the Social Model "boils down to" is, now we've designed you a tool, you are an equal to any able person. So you cannot be given any more advantages. It is all down to you now. Get your box of tricks and get working.

    But if you don't you wont be helped any more. You'll be dumped on the scrap heap. It is George Orwell's  "1984" nightmare, just 30 years late in coming.

    You've been offered reasonable adjustments. Now you are on a level playing field - stop moaning and get on with it.........

    I guess the headline disappeared from "News from the NAS" because they've been told to shut up and get on with it.

    Sorry, I don't mean to offend, or to scare........but there does seem to be a very fixed perspective that reasonable adjustments is the only response needed for disabilities. I just wish I could get this message across to NAS. The social model doesn't help people on the autistic spectrum.

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  • Unfortunately we are all victims of the Social Model of Disability. It is a very appealing idea - that were are less able in some respects, and this can be overcome by making adjustments. There is incredible loyalty to the social model, because the alternative - that we are each individually a problem to be solved - is unthinkable.

    But in reality all the social model does is provide a few reasonable adjustments: a ramp for a wheelchair user, an auditory implant for the deaf, a compensating text writing device for dyslexia - oh and a hand held device for prompting people on the autistic spectrum.....well once they've managed one that works properly .....and is that all there is to autism?

    The curious thing is the social model appeals to all political persuasions - you cannot just grumble at the conservatives because Labour are totally committed to the social model. The TUC have produced a disability guide that is 100% behind the idea.

    And what the Social Model "boils down to" is, now we've designed you a tool, you are an equal to any able person. So you cannot be given any more advantages. It is all down to you now. Get your box of tricks and get working.

    But if you don't you wont be helped any more. You'll be dumped on the scrap heap. It is George Orwell's  "1984" nightmare, just 30 years late in coming.

    You've been offered reasonable adjustments. Now you are on a level playing field - stop moaning and get on with it.........

    I guess the headline disappeared from "News from the NAS" because they've been told to shut up and get on with it.

    Sorry, I don't mean to offend, or to scare........but there does seem to be a very fixed perspective that reasonable adjustments is the only response needed for disabilities. I just wish I could get this message across to NAS. The social model doesn't help people on the autistic spectrum.

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