This is a personal message to all readers of the Black Triangle Campaign

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Dear valued reader,

As you will be aware the UK Government is proposing to cut the disability benefits bill by £3 billion.  This might result in you losing benefits.  It will definitely result in hundreds of thousands of disabled people getting less money and all of us being placed in further anxiety of when the axe might fall on ourselves.

We have put together a template letter that can be sent to your local MP. Please feel free to adapt it to your own circumstances but we hope it might help you in writing to them. The more MPs that get the message, that these cuts will cause nothing but more hardship and are unacceptable, the better.
You can find out who your own MP is and e-mail them easily by going to this site and putting in your postcode –
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAtsa9BhAKEiwAUZAszW0RWI4lEnL5V2skNIjsGnjj_eUmc2LIb-E1sdE0WMdCFUFOyof3WBoCFswQAvD_BwE
The more of us who write, the more MPs who will be alerted to the scale of the opposition to these cuts.
Good Luck!”

Below you will find a template you can copy and send to your respective MP, simply click and hold your mouse across the text, right click it once all the text is selected, click copy, and then once you have a new email opened, right click your mouse in the empty place, and click paste.

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Dear ———— ,

I have learnt through media reports that the Government is planning to cut
disability benefits, including the Universal Credit Health related component
and PIP, by £3 billion.

These cuts may, or may not, directly affect myself and my
family. What I do know is that these proposals are causing me huge anxiety
and are likely to continue to do so for many years to come because the threat
that I will at some point lose my own benefits is not going to go away.

I/We am already living hand-to-mouth struggling to pay for basic necessities
such as food, energy and clothing. (Optional additions: I/We are already in
debt to our energy supplier/supermarket, behind with our Council Tax, etc.).
I/we face considerable additional costs because of my health/disability. If I lose
my benefits we will simply not be able to survive.
I want you to know that talk of “supporting” myself and other ill and disabled
people into work by taking away our benefits is nonsense. The loss of our
benefits will increase the barriers we already face in securing employment and
not reduce them.
These cuts are an attack on my own, and other disabled people’s, human rights
to an adequate income and right to life. I have no doubt that many disabled
people’s mental and physical health will deteriorate if these cuts go ahead.
Some will die and others will take their own lives. Can I and other disabled
people count on your support in opposing these horrendous cuts?
Yours Sincerely,
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