Disability Alliance wants the ‘£4 pittance’ to be reinstated
Friday 12th February 2010, 2:28PM GMT.
THE Guernsey Disability Alliance has criticised cuts that will see disabled people no longer getting paid to go to work.
The organisation has called for the immediate reinstatement of £4 a day attendance payments to those employed at Interwork or attending the St Martin’s Community Centre.
But Health and Social Services minister Hunter Adam said last night that he felt more could be done to help the disadvantaged to earn and the broader subject would be discussed today by the Social Policy Group, which he chairs.
‘I personally feel very strongly about this and will pursue it in my own way to a satisfactory solution,’ he said.
HSSD announced last month that it would stop the payments – that cost it just over £20,000 a year – as part of its £6m. spending cuts.
Guernsey Disability Alliance chairwoman Shelaine Green (pictured) said the organisation had made representations as soon as the cuts were announced.
She said that a meeting on Wednesday night was attended by more than 20 disabled people.
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The HSSD say they are cost cutting and the £4 pittance is disgraceful.
My husband has lost both legs above the knee in January 2009 and we were given attendance allowance late last year. In the recent HSSD cuts attendance allowance was taken away because he not disabled enough !!!!!
How can HSSD print in the GP they “admire those on benefit and work” when neither of us receive any other benefit both work full time, but that does not help the fact he still needs assistance.
Time they looked at those who fleece the system and cut there benefit instead of those who are honest and truly need help.
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I hear on the news today that the attendance allowance is being reinstated. How pathetic that it was removed in the first instance. This has caused alot of heartache to all those involved and took away a feeling of self worth. Well done to all those involved in getting this back.
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Decision, proclamation, challenge, u-turn.
The politics of vote chasing popularity results in another public humiliation, not to mention the unnecessary distress caused to those involved.
If HSSD really want to save money how about taking a scythe to the completely ineffective management that sits around coming up with harebrained ideas only to capitulate the minute someone challenges them?
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