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“
I
got up this morning, brushed my teeth, showered, ate breakfast, got
dressed, checked my e mails, went to work, had lunch with colleagues,
met with friends on the way home from work, popped in on my mum to see
she was alright before coming home to do a couple of hours work on my
open university degree before bed. I was able to do all this because of
the money from the Independent Living Fund that helps pay my Personal
Assistant to support me to do the things I can’t manage to do directly
because I have a condition that means my hands do not work and I get
around using a wheelchair” – ILF recipient.
The
money from the independent living fund helps pay for a personal
assistant, and enables disabled people who need support to have a
quality of life to do the same things everyone else can do. Live.
The
government says “ILF recipients will be reassessed by their local
authority, and will be funded by the local authority” The money given to
the local authority to meet a disabled person’s support needs will not
be ring fenced. The local authority can spend that money meant for
disabled people and their support needs on other resources. Disabled
people who need the support fear less or no support at all and then being placed into residential care, far from friends and family.
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