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On 8/24/12, deepak saini <[email protected]> wrote: > please send answer keys for ugcnet exam > june 2012 for paper I. > paper 2 for poll science > paper 2 and paper 3 > > On 8/24/12, avinash shahi <[email protected]> wrote: >> As we celebrate these super-fit athletes, benefits for disabled people >> are being cut and views against them are hardening >> >> Polly Toynbee >> guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 August 2012 20.30 BST >> The benefit cuts will be shocking: 90,000 motability cars and scooters >> will be repossessed. Photograph: Keith Morris/Alamy >> The flames are lit, the torches are on the move. Next week an >> extraordinary spectacle unfolds, revealing super-fit, finely muscled >> Paralympians doing things few able-bodied people could ever achieve. >> But will it change public attitudes – and if so, for better or worse? >> >> Polls show public views hardening against disabled people. Once >> deserving, now they are malingerers. A Glasgow University study of >> media reporting shows a sharp increase in the use of "scrounger", >> "cheat" and "skiver" in relation to disability. TV shockumentaries >> have relished tales of roofers and marathon runners on sickness >> benefits. Official figures showing fraud at less than 1% don't stick >> in the mind, but one good cheating anecdote lingers for years. Focus >> groups now often estimate disability fraud at a preposterous 70%. No >> surprise that more than half of disabled people say they are >> experiencing new hostility, aggression and violence from strangers. >> Cases reported to the police have soared, and Disability Rights UK >> says harassment is rarely reported. >> >> The Treasury will take back around £2bn when disability living >> allowance (DLA) is replaced with personal independence payments (PIP) >> next year. Two-thirds of claimants will lose it, some severe cases >> will get a bit more, but official estimates say it will be lost by >> 280,000 in most need. The allowance pays the extra costs of >> disability, in or out of work, for personal help, taxis or cars. The >> cuts will be shocking: 90,000 motability cars and scooters will be >> repossessed. That's an average of 140 per constituency. Are MPs ready >> for the outcry? >> >> The Disability News Service has been interviewing next week's >> Paralympians, asking how they would manage without DLA. Their answers >> were sharp: Aaron Phipps, the wheelchair rugby player, said "I'd be >> completely lost without it", as his chair costs £1,700. David Clarke, >> captain of the blind football team, said: "If a minister found himself >> in the middle of a city with no one to help get a taxi, he would >> probably appreciate his DLA." Table tennis star Sue Gilroy said she >> would be "devastated", her life would be "impossible" without her >> motability car and wheelchair. Nigel Murray, winner of two golds at >> boccia, says DLA is essential, as does dressage rider Natasha Baker, >> who relies on it for her petrol costs. Gold medallist Dame Tanni >> Grey-Thompson made powerful speeches in the Lords against these cuts >> in debates on the welfare reform bill, to no avail. So when you watch >> and wonder at their performances, remember that they needed DLA to >> help them get there. >> >> Disability Rights UK has an excellent new handbook, Doing Sport >> Differently, promoting everyday sport. But the Paralympics may present >> challenging imagery. Could the sight of vigorous and determined >> athletes overcoming all odds to compete send an insidious message that >> anyone in a wheelchair could do that, if only they tried harder? That >> is the underlying implication behind work capability assessments that >> currently find more than one-third of incapacity benefit claimants >> "fit for work". >> >> The appeals system is gridlocked with a one year backlog. Employment >> support allowance is cut while people wait, although 40% of appeals >> succeed, costing £44m. Atos, conducting the tests, is sponsoring the >> Games, which disabled campaigners regard as an even greater irony than >> Coca-Cola and McDonald's sponsoring the Olympics. >> >> But it suits Atos's work: if these wheelchair users can do this, why >> can't you? If paralysed Stephen Hawking can earn a good living, why >> can't everyone else in his condition? Atos has just won the £400m >> contract for the new tests of everyone on DLA, transferring them to >> PIP. G4S was expected to win it as the firm conducted the early >> trials, but are thought to have been dropped hastily as ministers saw >> the looming Olympics fiasco. Atos's chief executive had a 22% pay rise >> this year, which helps spur on the UK Uncut protesters, who from next >> Friday will be barricading the company's London HQ in Triton Square >> during the Paralympics. But Atos are only fulfilling government >> orders. >> >> Here is a shocking figure revealed after a Mirror freedom of >> information request: 1,100 disabled people died last year after they >> were found "fit for work". Weighing up society's values, is the risk >> of 1% cheating worse than the state wrongly harrassing so many of the >> genuinely sick? For as long as there is sin, there will always be >> cheats, always some families abusing a motability car: eternal >> vigilance is a necessary part of any welfare system. But ministers at >> the Department for Works and Pensions bear a heavy responsibility for >> this unbalanced obsession, as they harden public opinion for next >> April when the great disability benefit cull accelerates. Sometimes >> their words are punitive, sometimes unctuous. Iain Duncan Smith and >> Chris Grayling are about as enticing as the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang >> child-catcher when they pretend their main mission is to help those >> left stranded in dependency into a happier life in work. No doubt some >> are helped, but the great majority feel cut without any realistic >> chance of a job: the number in work on access to work grants fell by >> 16% last year. >> >> >> Disability Rights UK says there's a curious catch-22 in the new PIP >> tests: anyone who can move themselves 50 metres unaided will lose the >> payment, if they don't earn other points. That means anyone in an >> electric wheelchair can lose it, because they can move unaided – but >> when they lose the payment they lose the wheelchair too. (People are >> warning one another to turn up at the test in a manual wheelchair.) >> Here's another curiosity: an estimated 25,000 people will have to give >> up work when they lose DLA and become immobile. Their DLA was worth >> around £90m, but on average pay, they contribute £146.7m to the >> Treasury. Out of work, they will get another £127.7m in benefits. Did >> no one do the sums? >> >> Housing benefit (HB) cuts for the disabled will cost the state extra >> too. Needing bigger space for wheelchairs, the National Housing >> Federation estimates 108,000 will be judged to "under-occupy" their >> "too-big" homes. Forced to move, they will leave behind expensive >> adaptations and need the council to fit new ones in their new homes. >> The money set aside to help doesn't cover half these cases. The state >> will save £50m on their HB, but waste £500m on existing adaptations, >> with more to spend on new fixtures – though as there is no more in the >> disabled facility grant for adaptations, they will have to do without. >> >> Celebrate the Paralympians – but remember what they say they needed >> from the state to get them there. >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/23/paralympians-state-help-disabled-benefits-cut >> >> >> -- >> Avinash Shahi >> MPhil Research Learner >> Centre for the Study of Law and Governance >> Jawaharlal Nehru University >> New Delhi India >> >> >> Search for old postings at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to >> [email protected] >> with the subject unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >> please >> visit the list home page at >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> >> > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. 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