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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-03-11 04:06 AM
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Disability Alliance legal challenge over welfare reforms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13999852

A group representing 270 disability charities is launching legal action to obtain a judicial review of the government's plans for welfare changes.

Ministers want to replace Disability Living Allowance with Personal Independence Payment, saving £2bn.

But Disability Alliance said ministers had not properly assessed the negative impact of the changes and that they did not comply with the Equality Act...


Disability Alliance said despite providing the government with overwhelming evidence of the negative impact it said the measures would have there has been no significant alteration to the Welfare Reform Bill...
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-03-11 05:27 AM
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1. Good for them
Edited on Sun Jul-03-11 05:29 AM by non sociopath skin
They deserve all our support.

Yet again, this group of greedy, incompetent buffoons fails to see the big picture.

I guess this is what happens when people who don't like the concept of government are given the keys to a government.

The Skin
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