Disability Rights UK supports the report ‘Responsible Reform’ about the Government’s plans for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) which was compiled entirely by disabled people.
The report provides an account of over 500 responses to the plans obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. It reveals that the Government has downplayed the level of consistent opposition to the proposed reform of DLA and clarifies that it is improved access to the benefit which has led to the rising caseload. The benefit is not ‘getting out of control’, and there is no justification of a 20% cut to DLA.
The proposals are likely to create multiple, expensive, exhausting and unnecessary levels of bureaucracy. Neither the tax payer nor disabled people should have to endure these burdens.
The DLA is a vital benefit to support disabled people with disability-related expenditure and enables them to exercise choice and control over their lives. Efforts to undermine the DLA will exclude disabled people from their communities.
