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.
