Reduced Earnings Allowance

EDM number 774 in 1995-96, proposed by Alan Meale on 23/04/1996.

That this House condems the decision of Her Majesty's Government to introduce new limitations on the payment of reduced earnings allowances to people who had to give up their regular employment through industrial injury because they had attained state pension age since April 1989; cannot condone such a change in policy which has resulted in a 75 per cent cut in allowances for all those affected; recalls that since the Social Security Act 1986 was introduced by the Conservative Government they have conducted a unrelenting campaign on people disabled as a result of the industry they laboured for; and calls upon the Govenment to immediately reinstate such benefits without delay.

This motion has been signed by a total of 75 MPs.