Article from Leonard Cheshire Disability

http://www.lcdisability.org/?lid=14585

You did it! Government maintains mobility allowance for people in residential care

"After more than a year of hard work, meeting MPs, writing letters to the Minister, talking to the press and supporting the Hardest Hit protests, you've done it! The mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (and the benefit that will replace it, Personal Independence Payment) will not be removed from people in residential care!

The action you and thousands of campaigners have taken means that the Government has listened to disabled people and decided not to take away mobility payments.

"This decision will be a huge relief to thousands of disabled people worried that without their mobility allowance they would have been trapped in their homes . . . "