Against DWP Reforms for the genuinely sick and disabled.

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For those of us who are genuinely sick and disabled the new government reforms will make us an easy target to save the country thousands of pounds.
We believe that the constant vilification of sick and disabled claimants as work shy scroungers by the press has a great deal to do with increasing levels of harassment. We also believe that the DWP and successive government ministers and MPs have knowingly or recklessly fed stories and quotes to the press about claimants, which have drastically increased the levels of press hostility in recent years.

Amongst the example of what constitutes harassment, the EHRC include:

derogatory, demeaning or humiliating remarks
offensive or patronising language
insults
threats and intimidation
We need all sick and disabled claimants and their carers to sign this petition and help us to place the blame for the increasing hatred and harassment of disabled people where much of it belongs at the doors of the DWP and its ministers.

1724 Signatures

  • Helen Bradshaw
  • Melody Bartram
  • Amanda Newell
    • Comments
    • To target the genuinely sick and disabledled against receiving these benefits is discrimination and in some cases even harrasment.
  • Nikki Hades
  • Rebecca Devitt
    • Comments
    • Don't put unwell people through the stress of losing the money they rely upon just to save the government money.
  • Julie Carwardine
    • Comments
    • I have just been sent another limited capability form to fill out even though I have just had the trauma of an appeal for ESA which I won. There needs to be serious reforms for the genuinely sick and disabled.
  • lisa fisher
  • Kate Rigby
  • Angela Milne
    • Comments
    • I whole-heartedly agree with this petition. As a disabled person myself, I am subjected to comments and behaviour by professional people who are quite simply trying to save money and not looking at how my illness affects me and those around me. At times I feel completely alone, useless and as though the world would be better off without me tagging along in the background. Is this really how the world should view the Uk and it's treatment of it's citizens?
  • Sandy Marks
  • Tamzen Benham
    • Comments
    • I am a very scared disabled lady
  • Jeffrey Cooper
    • Comments
    • It might be more sensible to avoid panic amongst the disabled, which is all this new goverment has so far managed.
  • Irene Thorpe
    • Comments
    • protect those who are sick and disabled not make them suffer more
  • Howard Hyman
    • Comments
    • Although not sick or disabled myself, I understand the concerns of the genuinely sick and disabled . Action should be taken against those who abuse the system without attacking those who need help and support.
  • Eleanor Leigh
  • tracey jackson
  • Debra Hollyoak
  • peter thorne
  • Ann Rigby
    • Comments
    • Please do not force the sick and disabled off their rightful benefits.
  • Laura Whitby
  • annmarie alkarram
  • Maria Doswell
  • DOROTHY MURRAY
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  • Gillian Smith
  • mary
  • claire fryer
  • Darren Magee
  • Glen McGlaughlin
  • Barbara Kell
    • Comments
    • You need to think again. You are going to seriously hurt the genuine sick and disabled. Where is your humanity?
  • Richard Bowles
    • Comments
    • The treatment of very sick ME. patients from the DWP is disgusting
  • Denise Longman
    • Comments
    • As one of those who have been labelled as having ME, post viral fatigue syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome, and having witnessed many derogatory comments and read lectures from the psychiatric conferences which have referred to ME patients as "the undeserving sick" I am totally behind this petition. It is a terrible indictment on our so-called civilised society when the weakest and most disadvantaged are made scape-goats of a greedy insurance industry and a confused medical profession. My own illness turned out to be Lyme disease (borreliosis) and despite having found this out after 20 years of suffering, I am left with no consultant to treat my condition and a scandalous refusal of the NHS to treat Lyme as a chronic disease. One of the other shameful situations that has been revealed to me during this illness, is the shuffling of sick people under the mental health definitions, and those with a mental illness are then denied any recognition of their physical ailments.
  • brendan maydew
  • Paula Gilfedder
    • Comments
    • To the UK Government...STOP BULLYING THE SICK AND VULNERABLE!!
  • Lyndsey Mckinnon
  • Sue Tame
  • Demelda Penkitty
  • beccy
  • Raymond Frank Tucker
  • Derek Benyon
    • Comments
    • I worked & paid my taxes for 40 years! How does that make me a scrounger. I'm sick & disabled, please don't add to my problems!
  • flora cumming
  • Dr John Greensmith
  • Gillian Wright
    • Comments
    • i've lost my husband of 10 years over this, say no more
  • Laura Dunks
  • Kelly Hooper
  • Laurence Swift
  • simon benson
    • Comments
    • its a joke the way genuine sick people have a hard time getting benefits ,but cheats know exactly how to screw the system.i was actually asked once if i could lift a bag of sugar,whats that got to do with people who suffer with m.e
  • Sharon Chamley
  • Margaret Gray
  • Gayla feeney
  • Rowena Mccarthy