Daily Archives: 03/11/2010

DLA mobility cut is ‘shameful’ and ‘obscene’, say disabled people

Disabled people say that government plans to remove a key mobility-based disability benefit from residents of care homes will tear away their “last shred of independence”.
George Osborne, the chancellor, announced in this month’s spending review that disabled people living in residential homes – unless they fund their own care –will no longer be able to [...]