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Disability Alliance has been contacted in the last few days by people who believe that we favour attendance alllowance (AA) being integrated into Local Authority care service budgets. This is incorrect.
We support disability living allowance (DLA) and AA as national, non-means tested benefits paid to disabled people to meet their higher living costs. We have provided research and evidence on the higher costs of living that disabled people experience.
DLA and AA were intended to help with the higher costs of living disabled people and their families experience, and to help tackle the link between disability and poverty. We believe placing either or both of these funds in the pool for Local Authority distribution could cut support and restrict choice and control for many disabled people.
Our position (responding to the launch of the Government's 'Shaping the Future of Care Together' Green Paper) is online. We are also running a survey online which will help shape our response to the green paper. It includes questions on benefits. Please fill it in, if you have time, at:
http://disabilityalliance.org/care6.htm .
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