{"id":18609,"date":"2017-05-15T22:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18609"},"modified":"2017-05-15T22:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T21:40:42","slug":"pm-theresa-may-in-abingdon-meets-cathy-the-press-were-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18609","title":{"rendered":"PM Theresa May in Abingdon meets Cathy. The worlds press were there too."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511509.jpg\" alt=\"PM Theresa May in Abingdon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Disability Living Allowance (DLA) has been phased out for people aged 16 to 64.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511501.jpg\" alt=\"PM Theresa May in Abingdon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This has been replaced by Personal Independence Payments (PIP). People between 16 and 64 are entitled to \u00a322 and \u00a3141.10 a week if they are successful in their PIP assessment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511502.jpg\" alt=\"PM Theresa May in Abingdon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Conservative leader Theresa May was taken to task over disability benefit cuts as she met an angry voter.  Cathy, a well known person in Abingdon, squared up to the Prime Minister and condemned the Government&#8217;s cuts to help for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511503.jpg\" alt=\"PM Theresa May in Abingdon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cathy has had the ear of the Prime Minister for a few minutes and made some headlines. Cathy said she had a mild learning disability and said she wanted her Disability Living Allowance back. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511504.jpg\" alt=\"PM Theresa May in Abingdon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She confronted Mrs May as the Prime Minister visited Abingdon for a general election campaign visit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/170511508.jpg\" alt=\"PM Theresa May in Abingdon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She stood up for all those who had lost out through disability benefit cuts that have left some of the most vulnerable in distress. It made headlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disability Living Allowance (DLA) has been phased out for people aged 16 to 64. This has been replaced by Personal Independence Payments (PIP). People between 16 and 64 are entitled to \u00a322 and \u00a3141.10 a week if they are successful in their PIP assessment. Conservative leader Theresa May was taken to task over disability benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}