British Prime Minister confronted publicly by a furious lady
living on disability benefit in Abingdon, Oxfordshire as she points out to Mrs
May that: "I can't live on £100 a month."
She stopped Mrs May in the town's market, telling her the
"fat cats get the money and us lot get nothing".
She added: "I'm talking about everybody. Everybody
who's got mental health - and everybody who's got learning disabilities - I
want them not to have their money taken away from them and being
crippled."
Because so many people complain that the move from
disability allowances to PIPs (Personal Independence Payment) has left them
struggling to get by.
"I want my disability living allowance to come back,
not have PIPs and get nothing. I can't live on £100 a month," Ms Mohan
said.
"Who's going to help me?" she pleaded.
The exchange happened as the PM was walking through a market
with the constituency's Tory candidate, Nicola Blackwood.
Mrs May made some efforts to reassure Ms Mohan, telling her:
"Nicola can help you specifically. What I can do is ensure we're giving
more help to people with mental health and learning disabilities.
"And that's exactly what we've done, we made an
announcement the other day... When we look at the help we give to people with
any disability, it's particularly we focus on those who are most in need."
PIPs payments currently vary from around £22 a week to
£141.10, and depends on the severity of a person's disability.
When they were being introduced, the Institute for Fiscal
Studies predicted 370,000 people would be affected, leaving them each an
average of £3,500 worse off.
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