Extract from Disabled People Against Cuts website
The UNCRPD [United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities] and our human and civil rights must be fully implemented, promoted and enforced.
Disabled
people are affected by the cuts 9 times more than everybody else. The
most severely disabled people are affected by the cuts 19 times more
than everybody else. This discrimination against disabled people must
end.
Disabled
people are affected by the cuts 9 times more than everybody else. The
most severely disabled people are affected by the cuts 19 times more
than everybody else. This discrimination against disabled people must
end.
Manifesto Pledges we are seeking from Parties
.....
Welfare Support :
There
must be a publicly run welfare system and an end to paying private
firms massive amounts of public money to carry out disability
assessments badly. Instead that money should be invested into providing
decent, liveable benefit levels.
An end to the Work Capability Assessment which is too flawed to amend.
An immediate end to benefit sanctions which have led to deaths and increasing poverty. Ensure
that there is no conditionality of JSA or ESA WRAG on seeking
treatments and no linkage with treatment and receipt of benefits.
Engagement with any back to work services must be optional for all claimants.
An end to replacing Disability Living Allowance with Personal Independence Payments which even now is in complete chaos.
A
total rethink on any move to Universal Credit and instead serious
consideration to be given working with disabled people and DPOs to a
move to a single system of welfare support based on the concept of a
disabled person’s citizens income.
Policy
recognition that there will always be disabled people who are unable or
too ill to work. These individuals must be supported by a publically
funded system....
More at
http://dpac.uk.net/2015/03/manifesto-asks/
More at
http://dpac.uk.net/2015/03/manifesto-asks/
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