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If you can live independantly with some support the night of the long knives is comming

Stuffed

Hi I have lived in what could be best described as independant poverty since about 2003.

I get direct payments and because I am deemed more able than those at somerset court-thus I live in a perverse poverty trap that is soon to implode.

 As anyone who has direct payments will know if you pay your carers directly then your discriminated against compared to agency pay roll.

 Now the other issue is the FAB assessment criteria is years old, this means that the values used to calculate your contribution do not couple up with the cost of living in any way shape or form.

 Now I am told that the direct payments are to be reduced or cut, this seriously annoys me as I don't manage so well at the moment.

 There seems to be no understanding this is not something that is a perk, but essential to me.

 I keep hearing that they are helping me live a forfilled and rewarding life, but I think they are deluding themselves as I can't afford a holiday, can't afford to travel to places that would interest me.

 They think a cup of tea and a sandwich once a week at a cafe is all I need.

 

I feel like I'm living in a mental prison, surrounded by people who can't understand.

 I'm on a sinking ship, but I will not go down without a fight. 

 

 

 

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    • Equality Act 2010
    Public sector duty regarding socio-economic inequalities
    (1) An authority to which this section applies must, when making decisions of a strategic nature about how to exercise its functions, have due regard to the desirability of exercising them in a way that is designed to reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio-economic disadvantage.
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    Enforcement
    A failure in respect of a performance of a duty under section 1 does not confer a cause of action at private law.
    4
    The protected characteristics

    The following characteristics are protected characteristics—

    age; disability; religion or belief; 
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    Disability
     (1) A person (P) has a disability if—
    (a )P has a physical or mental impairment, and
    (b )the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on P's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
    (2) A reference to a disabled person is a reference to a person who has a disability.
    (3) In relation to the protected characteristic of disability—
    (a) a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a person who has a particular disability;
    (b )a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to persons who have the same disability.

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    Religion or belief
    (1) Religion means any religion and a reference to religion includes a reference to a lack of religion.
    (2) Belief means any religious or philosophical belief and a reference to belief includes a reference to a lack of belief.
    (3) In relation to the protected characteristic of religion or belief—
    (a) a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a person of a particular religion or belief;
    (b) a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to persons who are of the same religion or belief.
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    • Equality Act 2010
    Public sector duty regarding socio-economic inequalities
    (1) An authority to which this section applies must, when making decisions of a strategic nature about how to exercise its functions, have due regard to the desirability of exercising them in a way that is designed to reduce the inequalities of outcome which result from socio-economic disadvantage.
    3
    Enforcement
    A failure in respect of a performance of a duty under section 1 does not confer a cause of action at private law.
    4
    The protected characteristics

    The following characteristics are protected characteristics—

    age; disability; religion or belief; 
    6
    Disability
     (1) A person (P) has a disability if—
    (a )P has a physical or mental impairment, and
    (b )the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on P's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
    (2) A reference to a disabled person is a reference to a person who has a disability.
    (3) In relation to the protected characteristic of disability—
    (a) a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a person who has a particular disability;
    (b )a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to persons who have the same disability.

     10
    Religion or belief
    (1) Religion means any religion and a reference to religion includes a reference to a lack of religion.
    (2) Belief means any religious or philosophical belief and a reference to belief includes a reference to a lack of belief.
    (3) In relation to the protected characteristic of religion or belief—
    (a) a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a person of a particular religion or belief;
    (b) a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to persons who are of the same religion or belief.
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