What the English Government doesn’t want you to know!
Over 1 million disabled people, many too ill to work and even some dying from cancer, are facing
losing their benefits or have already lost them. If you become ill or disabled in the future this could
happen to you, even if you’ve worked and paid National Insurance contributions most of your life.
1,500 people died following their ‘assessments’ by ATOS in 9 months of last year alone.
Act now to stop this.
From the Scottish Sun 2/5/’12
A DOCTOR yesterday likened the UK Government’s welfare reform crackdown on disabled people to
the “barbarism” of the Nazis.
Dr Stephen Carty told MSPs they must “fight back” against Westminster’s introduction of tough new
tests to see if people are fit to work. Dr Carty said: “Now is the time to mobilise a campaign of
resistance.” In fact Scottish and English GPs have voted unanimously for an immediate end to ATOS
assessment, which they describe as unfit for purpose
From a Grimsby paper 1/5/’12
A man who is suffering from horrendous blood clots and open ulcers has lost his disability benefits after job centre doctors labelled him fit for work. James Major, 33, struggles to walk, and has been
told by specialists at two hospitals he would be risking his life if he went back to work. But the
fisherman has had his benefits stopped after the job centre in Grimsby, decided he should go back to
work - despite the huge open sores on his legs.
His MP, Austin Mitchell, has labelled the assessment system "a shambles".
3 weeks ago, a man who went for his ATOS assessment found a waiting room packed full because
the assessors were all running half an hour to an hour late. It was baking hot but there was no water
in the dispenser. One man had soiled himself and his wife was crying out ‘My husband is dying. Is
that what you want my last memories of him to be?’
Poet’s ‘suicide note’ held up as warning over impact of welfare reforms – Scottish TV news
“He didn’t leave a suicide note. He left on his desk two letters side by side. One was a letter from the
Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) informing him that his incapacity benefit had stopped and
the other was from the council informing him that his housing benefit had stopped.”
Stop the great British Benefit Theft – Help Safeguard Your Future
If you think all this is unacceptable, please write to your MP or Maria Miller (Minister for Disabled
People) or Iain Duncan Smith, who runs the Department for Work and Pensions, both at Caxton
House, Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9DA.
And please sign our petition online
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Stop_stealing_disabled_peoples_benefits/
www.dpac.uk.net
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