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The government plans to introduce changes to incapacity Benefit in April 2010 that mental health charities have already voiced concerns over. It is feared that many people with mental health problems will be adversely affected due to the stress that such arbitrary measures of evaluation will introduce. This new system will apply to all existing claimants and assumes accuracy in mental health diagnosis which many of us already know doesn't exist. Many of us believe that such measures will only attach further stigma and prejudice to those with mental illness. A large number of people will fall through the system and fall into poverty and a system of expectation and penalty that they will be ill equipped to deal with. Please sign this protest to prevent this kind of change in favour of a fair standard of living and care for the vast majority of people on Incapacity Benefit who are genuine.

Current signatories

Cecilia Weightman, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Tracey
• Robert Kelly
• Nick Hay
• Mr Partis
• Karen Francis
• Paul Kean
• Anne Shaw
• d nicholson
• Paul Cheminais
• Mel Ryan
• Mike Bright
• Rachael Haddon
• EMMA
• Emma Thompson
• JF
• Tina Mardell
• Margery Abbott
• Julie Hall
• vicky evans
• Clive Edwards
• Lynsey
• Catherine Evans
• rosemary durack
• Barbara Norden
• lorraine bradburn
• Richard Jackson
• Mel Keshodia
• Jonathan Southwell
• LYN EVANS
• Paul Brian Tovey
• A ROBINSON
• Deborah George
• clair wright
• Andrea J Chee
• P Lewington
• Denise Bartlett
• Mrs S
• Mandy Lawrence
• c.acton
• janet lyon
• marcus howard
• Paul McNeill
• ian pugh
• Antony Pickering
• V.Phelan
• Christopher Davies
• jane Smith
• Naomi Lawson
• Tim
• Revd O Carter AMBCS
• Emily Mizen
• Simon Canning
• Dawn Sellick
• Carl Murray
• Charlee Sweatman
• Lisa Dennis
• Wendy Howell
• James Singleton
• N, M
• Colin Herd
• David Andrew Wilby
• Martin Campbell-Moore
• suzanne seaward
• Vicky Wakelin
• Robert Bennett
• haydn john latham
• David Dewson
• Alison Evans
• Eirianwen Jenkins
• SHARRON FITZGERALD
• They should pay full housing benefit too
• S Thomasson
• V L White
• Suzanne Foster
• tracy moverley
• Robin Turrell ( please sign petitions.pm.gov.uk/autism-schools/
• Louise Potter
• emma brooks
• Claire Snowden
• Elizabeth McBride
• Tessa Trimarco
• Brett Harris
• Cheryl Oldroyd
• Richard Hills
• Malcolm Northfield
• Alice
• Jane Mckay
• Raymond Lane
• Chris Young
• Julia-Marie Harros
• Kim Semmence
• marc powell
• Stephen Jones
• robert woodward
• Ian Sandeman
• Dave
• iandench
• alison naish
• Caroline Cornock
• Janet Burnett
• Maureen Stewart
• Dawn Corby
• Wendy Maxwell
• glynne sanderson
• DAVID BROWN
• David Howe
• Jane
• clucks
• christine steel carers poverty protest
• Tony Dennis Carers poverty protest
• Jean Milne, carers poverty protest
• Caroline Jones
• Dean Stockton
• Paula Hanson - National Carers Forum
• jackie portman
• Jessica Hocknell
• Wayne Hadfield
• Andy Matthews
• Andy - Bipolar4All.co.uk
• . eileen brown
• Lauren Goldsmith
• David Hughes
• Donna
• Kim Jeffal
• David Callier
• Annie Bishop
• melanie perrt
• Jim Allison retired WRO
• Alexandra Phillips
• Clare Powls
• Richard Powls
• Dorothy Grace Della - Porta
• Amanda Matthews
• Emma Jolley
• Jason Kilburn Evans
• Helen Sanders
• sonia martin( mentally ill)
• Stephen Baker
• bradley ryan
• toni burch
• Nicholas Austin
• James Radley
• P Hall
• Jean Cozens
• Jennifer Campbell
• Rebecca Mansfield
• Chris McConnell
• Rachel Bird
• kimberley knowles
• lynn barnett
• Doreen Butterworth
• Grace Jaundrell
• Isobel Lane
• james stirzaker
• Valerie de Gay
• TRACY BANKS
• Dee Speers....especially when mental health problems are mistreated and health deteriorates
• Rodney Yates
• Claire Attwood
• Jean Elizabeth Roberts
• Sue Fletcher
• James Tudor
• Brynn Tudor
• Angie Wright
• Dawn Launchbury
• Frances White
• Lorna Smart
• Sheila Nolan
• Helen Storkey
• Richard Alan Cowling
• Kathryn Bloxham
• Michael R Curley
• rosalyn clark
• Linda Highlands
• Susannah Slinn
• Rachel Britton
• Nick White
• Stephen Oakley
• patricia mckinlay
• c hunter
• Liz Cooper (petitions.number10.gov.uk/incap-inequality)
• Emilie Bowers
• Dr Sunil Handa
• Anthony Blackler
• Richard Carling
• Heather L McGee
• Gary Walker
• Rebecka Almond
• paul maybury
• Tony Martin
• PAUL TALBOYS
• Michelle Richards
• Ros
• suzy
• Bob Lee (petition WiltsPCTout)
• Faye Wragge
• Richard lawrence
• Marilyn Clement
• Steven Mark Schwartz
• Dilys Jouvenat
• maureen barnes
• JILL MILES
• margaret winder
• Claire Robinson
• Adrian Philpott
• Portia Victoria Lovering
• Lindsey Greenham
• Lisa Handyside
• Andrew Martin
• Joanna Watson
• t. howarth
• Jennifer Dunford
• TREV FAIRMINER
• james brandon
• Pamela Hall
• cd
• lauren p
• John Barton
• Hannah Furneaux-Gotch
• tony crawford
• David Hardy
• david brooks
• Claire Glenton
• S Middlemiss
• John De Fries
• Marie Sheldrake
• clare redman
• Rachel Lovell
• B Johnson
• Mike Potter
• Joanna Bennett
• Debra McLean
• Maureen Sandiford
• PS Procter
• Anne Osborne
• Michael Mcgregor
• Jane Miller
• Aaron Turnbull
• Sheila M MacPherson
• john thorman
• trina tanner
• Ricardo De Barros
• Nadine O'Mahony
• Hazel Sparks
• Lucy Baker
• Mark O'Rourke
• Joanne Moran (e-petition - unfairworkfare)
• George Rodger, Jr.
• sarah whittaker
• ian brocklebank
• Janet Prior