Budget - tougher for DLA claimants
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Chancellor has just announced that from 2013 all DLA claimants, new and existing, will have to have medicals.
What happens to all the people with mental health issues who have to go through these.... the docs don't recognise it and once again we will have to fight to keep DLA.
I thought he was going to clamp down on incapacity claimants - not a mention of them.
What happens to all the people with mental health issues who have to go through these.... the docs don't recognise it and once again we will have to fight to keep DLA.
I thought he was going to clamp down on incapacity claimants - not a mention of them.
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i think for some it wilL be harder but in our case it will be easier.
M
I am trying to improve life for my family
I must save money for our future.
I must get back to my goal weight....
:j
It also sounds that the care element is going to be hit hard, with an assessment on whether some need full time carer.
As these changes take place in 2013, we will hear a lot more detail on how and what changes will take place. I wonder how housing benefit will change for people on DLA.
As welshsue said this seems unfair for people with mental health issues - such as my mum who is on MRC DLA for that reason and now all this talk in the budget will cause even more stress and worry for these people, which is exactly what they don't need.
I'm quite sure a medical won't show doctors how people with mental health problems are when they are at their worst, the days they won't even get out of bed or eat, the days they feeling like ending it all and the pressure it puts on their families too.
I wondered why they singled out this benefit and not Incapacity or Job Seekers Allowance?
I hope we get some clarification soon.
Sorry for being naive, who are they?