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Cash for care
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.2.92, 1992, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Independent Living Fund, through which disabled people are able to buy in their own care, will not continue beyond April 1993.
Paying direct
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.8.94, 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
With increasing speculation that the government may be reversing its previous opposition to direct payments to disabled people, considers the role of the Independent Living Fund and its successor, the Independent Living (Extension) Fund in meeting the needs of severely disabled people.
That's the way the money goes: Bangladeshi disability benefits
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.5.94, 1994, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Talks to the Welfare Rights Unit in the London Borough of Camden, a winner of last year's Community Care Enterprise Awards, about their use of the money to increase the take up of benefits by disabled people in the Bangladeshi community.
Welfare rights: claimants' hospital stays may lead to benefit cuts
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.7.98, 1998, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many disabled people living in the community require regular short stays in hospital, otherwise they would have to live in residential care. However, a recent change in law is putting their social security benefits at risk.
Cash on the nail
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.10.96, 1996, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how at last, after years of campaigning, disabled people are entitled to cash payments rather than services. But some local authorities, often co-campaigners in that fight, now fear the arrangement could backfire.