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Petition update, 30 January 2009

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In the Welfare Green Paper No One Written Off: Reforming Welfare to Reward Responsibility the Government proposes to transfer working age carers on Carers Allowance and Income Support to Job seekers Allowance. Carers are amongst the most responsible members of society. Without their contribution our NHS and social care systems would collapse. Transferring carers to job seekers allowance , a benefit that suggests carers are not working, are not contributing to society and are available for work is an insult and a contradiction of the government’s claim to ‘recognise’ carers’ ‘immense contribution’ to society (estimated to be worth £87 billion a year). Carers' valuable social input should be recognised by keeping carer benefits separate from the rest of the benefit system.

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• Darren Blakeman
• Jonathan Ross
• WENDY MEESE
• David Hickman
• Matthew Kent
• Richard Rue
• P.Hardyman-Richards
• patricia smith
• Janet Brownhill
• Kate Manby
• Bob Dewing
• Robert Taylor
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• Holly Mitchell
• Keith Fernie
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• paula lockhart
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• Hannah Selman
• beth wallace
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• Laura Wooton
• david atkins
• Brian Donnelly
• Hazel Donnelly
• Peter Onley
• Andrea Mountford
• David Mountford
• Susan Cantlay
• julia mitchell
• A Welch
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• Gratten Townsend
• Janet Turner
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• George Wood
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• peter womersley
• Mr Peter Snowden
• Elizabeth Hurst
• Leon Carter
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• Malcolm Morrison
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• Irene Morris
• evelyn doyle
• lisa naylor
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• Farzana Huq
• angela henson
• kevin henson
• david gibbs
• Sally Davison
• Sara Loewenthal
• Sheridan Tilsed
• Zoe White
• Margaret Chisholm
• Patrick Ainley
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• Norma Tindall
• Catherine McColgan
• Linda Black
• Anne Rubin
• Dave Stuttle
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• Nigel Shakespeare
• chris mulveen
• Robin Bilson
• Neil Tilsed
• PHILIP KINGHAM
• Lindsay Mekni
• Jackie Hanse
• Sandra Harper
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• Julie Willers
• Kathleen Downing
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• Karen Robinson
• susan tetley
• A. James-Clarke
• Paul Hattersley
• denise marriage
• Angus Livingstone
• Doris Mountford
• John van der Wal
• Louisa (Carer for Husband and Daughter)
• Nigel Haydon
• Helen Hare
• June Tagg
• Anna Fleming
• stellapearson
• emma middleton
• Mark Perry
• Robert Speirs
• marion wale
• Ian Lessiter
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• Stephen Johnson
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• Cheryl Ledward-Lee
• Dot Steele
• Susie Russell
• Malcolm Kane
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• Anne Fraser
• David Keogh
• ann grew
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• ruth emily hanson
• Sue Wanklin
• Eva Bird
• liz sinar
• David Jones
• Jean McLennan
• Ceri Ord
• Anne McAllister
• Lesley Ellis
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• Jo Stubbins carer 20 years
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• JACQUI WILSON
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• Christina Elliott
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• Barry Reynolds
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• Charles Boyle
• Christine Jackson
• Stuart Leather
• TERENCE JACKSON
• Irene Thomas
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• JULIE REED
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• susan nimmo
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• PETER HOWARD
• sandra haynes
• Betty Redpath
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• Simon Lake
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• ASHLEY GRAY
• caroline may
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