WELFARE REFORM PROPOSALS

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I normally don't post political posts, but this afternoon i have just written to my local MP with regards to the proposed welfare reform change by the Labour government. These proposals will potentially affect myself and many of my friends. I can't keep quiet about it. I want to be able to pray through these concerns, and somehow advocate on their behalf. I volunteer in an organisation that support patients who've suffered live changing injuries, I hear there stories on having to fight the system on top of coming to terms with spinal injuries. It's heartbreaking.


Welfare reforms are changes in the operation of a given welfare system aimed at improving the efficiency, equity, and administration of government assistance programmes. Which basically means robbing the poor to pay the rich.

under the proposals set out by the Labour government, What will they do? They will not magically get better and be able to work. They will simply get poorer, and sicker. I understand the logic behind the idea to separate disability benefits from work so that people aren't afraid that they'll lose their support if they work.

These such changes are going to again effect thousands of genuine people with disabilities or chronic illness like when the Conservatives abolished Disability Living Allowance and introduced the PIP and the bedroom tax. This means anyone with a genuine such conditions would struggle holding down a full time job. Yes it may reduce the amount of people who unfairly claim benefits, but it so often is the genuine people who are getting penalised.


But we can do something about this by lobbing our MP'S; your local MP's details can be found online or places like your local library. We can write directly to Liz Kendall Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. There also are many organisations that are advocating on behalf of mollions whose lives these changes will make on the day to day living. Will you help become a voice for those that have chronic illness and disabilities.

Sarah Joy 




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