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Work, rest and pay: the deal for personal assistance users
- Authors:
- KESTENBAUM Ann, CAVA Helena
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 80p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Explores the different factors that affect the decisions of disabled people who employ personal assistants and who want to work but find themselves left with little of their earnings above Income Support level after paying their assistants. Based on interviews with 42 disabled people. Ways forward in terms of policy changes are discussed in the conclusion.
Disability-related costs and charges for community care
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Publisher:
- Disablement Income Group
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 76p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a project aiming to develop and recommend a basis for considering an individual's disability related costs, which would balance the need to take these outgoings into account when assessing that person's ability to pay community care charges against the need to minimise both extra local authority administration costs and the need for assessment procedures.