Benefits of sick Holly, 4, taken away; TREATMENT.Byline: By RICHARD SMITH A DISABLED girl faces a bleak New Year after benefit bosses announced they would withdraw her payments. Holly Cullen, four, was born with bilateral talipes talipes: see clubfoot. - "club foot" - and relies on benefits to pay for hospital treatment and specialist equipment. The condition has left her unable to walk more than a few yards unaided. And now her parents have been told she is no longer eligible for her pounds 360-a-month benefits. In a letter earlier this month, the Department for Work and Pensions The Department for Work and Pensions (or DWP) (Welsh: Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau) is the largest government department in the Government of the United Kingdom, created on June 8, 2001, from the merger of the employment part of the Department for Education and (DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection ) said the payments will be cancelled from March. Holly's mother, Jo, 33, a part-time customer services worker from Cheltenham, Glos, said yesterday: "We need this funding to support Holly. The money means we can run a car, so on days when she's really struggling to walk home from school we can pick her up." The DWP said: "The customer has the right of appeal within one month." CAPTION(S): STRUGGLING Holly Cullen |
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