Call to end blind bar on disability allowance
MINISTERS should end an exclusion depriving tens of thousands of blind people of valuable disability benefits, MPs demanded yesterday.
Blind people are effectively not considered disabled enough to be able to claim for the higher rate of the disability living allowance, worth 116 a month.
Labour's Rob Marris and Philip Hollobone, of the Conservatives, called for the changes which the Royal National Institute of Blind People estimate will help 26,000 people. A motion calling for a "prompt resolution" has been signed 223 MPs.
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