people on disability allowance cut?

lightspeed

hi this may be a stupid question and been asked already but everyone on the news is only referring to the those unemployed have had the dole cut by 4% if im not mistaken but is the same reduction of 4% applied to those on disability allowance?
Thanks

dave1982

AFIK the blind are being docked,so i assume yes you will be docked:(

GhostInTheRuins

Yes, they're more or less the same thing (Payments have always been identical), so it will be cut too.

baileyjackson

down 8€ a week,

so thats 188€, but the RTE website is saying €186

killyourtv_

anyone know when that'll come into effect?

gurramok

killyourtv_ wrote: »

anyone know when that'll come into effect?

Jan 1st 2011 for all schemes

Galen

RTE just can't do mental arithmetic, illness benefit and jobseekers will both drop to 188 Euro.

Mr Trade In

Has any proper information been released on the new tiered system for Disability Allowance?

sollar

Unfortunately the reason disability was included for the cuts is due to the the 'bad back' brigade imo.

The temptation for many of the long term dolers would be to hit the doctors with a bad back and avail of the disability benefit instead.

irishh_bob

sollar wrote: »

Unfortunately the reason disability was included for the cuts is due to the the 'bad back' brigade imo.

The temptation for many of the long term dolers would be to hit the doctors with a bad back and avail of the disability benefit instead.

NO , the reason the disability allowance was cut is due to the fact that the descision was made to exclude pensioners from cuts at all costs , taking a fiver off the pensioners would easily have raised the 70 million needed for blind dogs and other benefits to the disabled

as i said on another thread , no TD ever lost his or her seat by having scorned the blind

fergal.b

My wife and son are on disability allowance and I am a full time carer for them we each take a 4% cut.:(