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I am writing this to support “one month before heart break”

Many disabled people are worried just how they are going to manage with the loss of benefits this government are proposing. We have been label as benefit cheats and made to feel that we do not need the support to manage on ourselves without any financial help. My disability is getting hard to manage as I get older and I been told by many people that by working it’s causing my pain and increasing my problems with walking. I receive both higher rate DLA care and mobility but I am expected to have to work full time in order to provide for myself. Every employer I have worked for has refused to employ me full time on health and safety grounds as I really do struggle to walk and by falling over at work as much as I do as it causes risk issues to me and the people I work with. Yet the government feel this is acceptable for me to work full time in order for me to support myself.

There are many disabled people in the UK that will lose their wheelchairs if the government get their way and take away DLA from those in residential homes. This I know from personal experience. I currently am a community support social worker and some of the people I see live in residential homes and I would not be able to take them out into the community if they were to lose the wheelchair, I personally could not push them myself if they had to use a manual chair. It sickens me to feel so scared and worried not only for myself and how I would manage with happen to apply again for a different benefit, which providing the government gives us another benefit. I am also worried just how I going to support those I work for. I have done my best to work in my life and feel that I have been punished for trying so hard.

I grew up in a residential home and worked in a residential college as I could not cope with having to defend for myself without having people around me. But the government decided they wanted to stop funding for this and make disabled people live in isolation in their own homes but shutting down the residential centres. They are forcing those people who have to live in residential care to live in isolation also.

If you feel it’s wrong for the government to do this then please support one month before heart break by sharing this message.

Thank you

 Markinsutton