To Everyone
I forget to include the attached information from Simone Aspis, BCODP in
email I sent yesterday....
See below copy of following...
We will be emailing you on a regular basis – so watch out for them. We will
be putting our briefings and other important information about the campaign
which will not be in this newsletter on the bcodp website.
1. You will find a letter to your MP
2. People First’s trip to Downing Street
3. BCODP’s worries about Welfare Reform Bill
We have this newsletter with pictures included. Please let us know if you
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Yours
Colin Revell
Attached information included below.....
Dear MP
We would urge you not to support the Government’s welfare reform bill for
the following reasons.
Whilst we think the benefit rules need to be changed, but not like the ones
in the Welfare Reform Bill.
There should not be any paid work conditions attached to getting employment
and support allowance (incapacity benefits replacement) where the only
evidence says that disabled people who are able to do paid work will try and
get it.
And that forcing disabled people into work when not ready to do so will have
a bad affect upon their health condition / learning difficulties label.
This together with wide spread discrimination and unfair treatment disabled
people face by bosses makes it wrong that there should be “paid work”
conditions attached to getting employment and support allowance.
We are very worried that disabled people may stop or fear taking on unpaid
work or doing part-time paid work because they may be seen as able to do
full-time paid work and therefore a “paid work” condition will be attached
to getting the Employment and Support Allowance.
We are worried that the personal capacity assessments will have the
inability to decide which disabled people can or can not work because
getting and staying in paid work does not depend on the degree of health
condition / learning difficulties but on how willing bosses will be with
wanting to employ disabled people and to treat them with respect whilst in
work.
Yours sincerely
......Join People First .....
Date: 24th July 2006
Time: 1.00pm
Where: Downing Street, SW1.
Why:
Support the delivery of a petition and press release outlining disabled
people’s opposition to the Welfare Reform Bill has written.
Follow People First to Westminster
as they leave Blair’s gaff and go for a laugh at all our parliamentary
oppressors.
THE WELFARE REFORM NEWSLETTER
The WELFARE REFORM BILL WILL FORCE DISABLED PEOPPLE INTO WORK
The Government has now said what it will be doing about Welfare Reform law.
This is about benefits and work.
It may mean that disabled people will get less money or be forced into work.
We need to campaign against the Welfare Reform Bill.
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
The ESA will replace Incapacity Benefits. Disabled people will now be forced
to take part in ‘work’ interviews and activities alongside being forced to
accept job offers.
Disabled people have felt they must take part in health programmes in order
to make them better for paid work.
If a Disabled person does not listen and do what the Pathways to Work or Job
Centre staff tells them to do then she will loose some of their money
(benefit sanction).
Personal Capacity Assessment Test
The Government says the Personal Capacity Assessment will be better designed
in order to see which disabled people can do any paid work . This is
important because some disabled people will be forced to take look and take
up work as part of their Employment and Support benefits condition.
The PCA only tests if a disabled person can do certain work which shows she
or he can do work. The PCA ignores the following facts on why disabled
people do not get jobs.
1. The ability to do the same jobs in an unsupported work place run by a
‘bad’ boss and elsewhere is different from doing the same job at home for
example.
2. Other things like inaccessible transport, bullying, work places or a home
that will not change the times they give support.
3. Because they are disabled regardless how big or small their health
condition or learning difficulties are.
There is no proof that disabled people are not looking for work when they
are able to do so or telling lies when applying for benefits. We think there
is no need to force disabled people into work because by doing so risks
their health condition getting bigger.
Means testing
This means loosing benefit money if one does paid work. Disability Benefits
should not be means tested. This will stop Disabled people from taking paid
work when they feel able to do so. Some disabled people fear that their
benefits will be stopped if they do some work either on a paid or unpaid
basis.
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