This vote follows over a year of warnings from the disability
community
A community is the people and places in an area.
and MPs alike and an open letter from over 70 disability charities voicing concern at the devastating affects a £30 weekly cut to ESA would have to people with a disability.
Rob Holland, Mencap Parliamentary
Manager
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and Co-Chair of Disability Benefits Consortium said:
We are delighted to see that MPs from across all political parties have listened to concerns from disabled people and voted to postpone the £30 weekly cuts
Cuts are when there is less money to pay for things like clubs and support. to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Universal Credit and look again at their impact, with 127 votes to 0. The call for this cut to be reversed in the Autumn Statement is now overwhelming.
For over a year the disability community have joined MPs from across all parties in warning of the disastrous affect that a cut to ESA would have on the lives of disabled peoples and their families; over a quarter of whom already struggle to afford food on the amount they currently receive.
Disabled people have seen their support reduced from all angles with cuts to their benefits and a collapsing social care sector. Today’s debate is a huge step forward, and we hope that the Government takes on board the strength of feeling from people with a learning disability
A learning disability is to do with the way someone's brain works. It makes it harder for someone to learn, understand or do things. .
We now urge the Government to use this second chance to focus on how we can create a personalised package of support which means that people with a learning disability have the same opportunities as everyone else to get onto Apprenticeships and into work.