If you think that the Community Allowance is a good idea and would bring real benefits to people who are long-term unemployed and your community, why not tell your MP about it?
You can contact your MP through the website They Work for You. All you need to do to find your MP is to input your postcode and then you can write to your MP about the Community Allowance.
Stuck for time? Here's an idea of points you could include:
- the Community Allowance, a proposal to change the benefits regulations so that community organisations can pay people to do work that strengthens their community without it affecting their benefits
- tell your MP how the problem of the benefits system affects the work that could be done in your community
- describe how you think things would improve if the Community Allowance existed
- give your MP this website address: www.communityallowance.org
- ask your MP to speak to Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for DWP to ask the Government to pilot the Community Allowance for anyone on any benefit
While you're at it, why not write directly to Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for the Departnment for Work and Pensions as well? You can write to him at this address:
Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State
Department for Work and Pensions
Caxton House
Tothill Street
London
SW1H 9DA
Please let us know if you get a reply!
