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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to That the rules regarding Disability Living Allowance application qualifying periods be scrapped. More details

Submitted by Julia Rice – Deadline to sign up by: 14 August 2008 – Signatures: 69

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It is absurd that the clauses in section 72 & 73 of the Contributions & Benefits Act 1992 state that anybody applying for Disability Living Allowance have to be in need of this benefit for a period of 3 months for under 65’s and 6 months for over 65’s before any payments come into force. If you need these benefits then you need them from the point at which you apply for them, not months in the future. These clauses have a knock-on effect for the Carers Allowance and cause great hardship for many newly disabled people and their carers. It is about time this was corrected and the people who need the financial help get it from the time at which they first need it. We therefore request that the qualifying periods for new applications for Disability Living Allowance be scrapped.

Current signatories

Julia Rice, the Petition Creator, joined by:

  • William Overington
  • judi Lunt
  • S. Nuttall
  • Edward Henson
  • Emma Rice-Hartley
  • barrytriggs
  • Barry Gorman
  • Lucy Burton
  • Peter Sheldon
  • Thomas Pirovano
  • marie rice
  • mairi mackechnie
  • Andrew Constantine, English Democrats
  • Adam Grice
  • Miss Andrea Lace
  • Gavan Connolly
  • jacqueline simpson
  • Lisa Owen
  • damian gregson-hartley
  • andras lucan
  • Adele Powell
  • Francis Jones
  • Carol Lear
  • R Mead
  • Fernando North
  • Karen Francis
  • Adrian Godfrey
  • James Lightbown
  • Jamie White
  • Susan Dalzell
  • joseph watson
  • nancy lucas
  • roy smith
  • Michelle Rice
  • John McDonald
  • Gail Whytock
  • julie presbury
  • J Sheridan
  • Wayne Rice-Hartley
  • angie Misty
  • Michael Ogden
  • Elaine Briggs
  • Pauline Smith
  • Jean Milne
  • H.L.ADAMS
  • Patricia Thompson
  • Daniel Marcus Caldon
  • Rosemary
  • Sally Dixon
  • Jean Kiddle
  • David Haynes
  • Perpetua Mills
  • Lee Clarkson
  • LANA MCCARTON
  • Tony Rhodes (National Carers Forum)
  • Paula Hanson
  • Jean Bremner
  • Fiona Stevenson of brafittingawareness.co.uk
  • Margaret King
  • shaun t hunter
  • Wendy Meese
  • pauline simpkiss
  • sonia martin(mentally ill)
  • Colin David Willems
  • stephen driver
  • Alex Mason
  • Zekiye Driver
  • Cheryl Dobbinson