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Join the "mobilise" campaign - email your MP

Disability Alliance has joined with Help the Aged and other disability and older peoples organisations to campaign for the end to age discrimination in the provision of benefits. The focus of the campaign is the mobility component of disability living allowance which is currently not available to disabled people aged 65 and over. The campaign was officially launched on April 29th 2004.

We believe that a person's right to receive mobility component should relate to their disability needs not to their age.

We are seeking evidence to back up our campaign and people who would be willing to be quoted in the press.

• Are you someone with mobility needs but unable to get financial help because you are over 65?
• Are you someone over 65 who does get DLA (because you got it before you became 65)? If so could you say why you find it useful or what you would have to go without if it were taken away?

If you have been sent a reply letter

Some of you may have been sent a letter from your MP enclosing a copy of a Department for Work and Pensions standard response on this subject. The response deliberately confuses the purpose of DLA, and argues it is completely reasonable to give older disabled people less help just because of their age. We have produced a sample rebuttal letter, countering this argument, for you to include in any reply you choose to make to these letters. 

Please feel free to adapt this letter to your own style. Remember, if you include personal comments or experiences it makes the letter more powerful. 

Resources and information

• briefing about mobilise
• how you can help with the campaign
  1.  pdf version
  2.  word version
• list of organisations who support mobilise
• sample letter to send to your mp
• sample letter to send to your local newspaper
• sample rebuttal letter
• tell us about your own experience
  1.  pdf version
  2.  word version

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