Welfare Reform Bill

A letter to send to your MP

Dear <the name of your 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 

<your name>

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