Letter: Disabled promises
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Compare and contrast this extract from yesterday's Independent regarding the leak of proposals to tax Invalidity Benefit:
taxation would raise pounds 500m . . . cutting the income of 900,000 claimants . . .
with this extract from the Conservative Party Manifesto 1992 (The Best Future for Britain):
We are introducing new disability benefits which will, in the next Parliament, bring extra help to at least 300,000 people. By 1993-94 these and other improvements will mean that we will be directing an extra pounds 300m a year to long-term sick and disabled peop1e.
Any further comment seems unnecessary.
Yours faithfully,
MICHAEL TURNER
Greater London Association
of Disabled People
London, SW9
29 October
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