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13 April 2011
The independent living fund provides financial help with your care package to help you remain in the community rather than enter residential care.
On 13 December 2010 Maria Miller, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced that the ILF will be permanently closed to new applications.
If you are already getting ILF payments this support should continue. Maria Miller has stated that there will be a formal consultation in 2011 aimed at determining how best to "continue to support existing users of the ILF in to a social care system based on the principles of personalised budgets".
You can find out more detailed information in Disability Rights UK's Disability Rights Handbook, available to buy at www.radar-shop.org.uk/.
All our publications are available at www.disabilityalliance.org/shop.htm. All our factsheets are available at www.disabilityalliance.org/fact.htm. You can also place an order by contacting Disability Alliance on 020 7247 8776 (this is not an advice line) or by fax on 020 7247 8765.
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