The Government’s Social Care Green Paper will hit 4,960 pensioners in North East Cambridgeshire, taking away their Attendance Allowance worth an average £60 a week. A further 1,510 will lose their Disability Living Allowance worth £75 a week. This is so Labour can pay for their latest eye catching announcement of a new National Care Service.
Both benefits are currently based on need. Instead Labour plan to make them means tested. So anyone who has been careful, lived within their means and saved will be penalised for doing so.
It is good to see Malcolm Moss MP giving a commitment to vote against this proposal and fight what is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our community. This is a bad policy, being introduced for political headlines at the expense of a vulnerable group.
This is the tip of the iceberg for what Labour will do if Gordon Brown gets another five years in power. If this money is to be pooled with the rest of the funding for social care, all disability benefits will become means-tested.
The message is also clear for anyone else with savings. Labour will cut any benefits you are currently entitled to - if they have no care for the disabled then no other group will be safe from further means testing under Gordon Brown.
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