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Disabled people lose court challenge to living fund

 

Five disabled people have lost their High Court challenge over the government's decision to abolish the Independent Living Fund (ILF).

 

Their lawyers had asked the court to declare "unlawful" the consultation process that led to the proposed axing of the £320m fund.

 

The five are among 19,000 people who receive money from the ILF, which the government plans to scrap in 2015.

 

The scheme aids independent living and the average pay-out is £300 a week.

 

The government has said that councils, which administer most social care, will take over funding this help.

 

On Wednesday, a judge dismissed the application, saying the consultation process had been lawful.

 

The claimants feared that disabled people could be forced out of independent living arrangements and into residential care, or trapped at home by the fund's closure.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22277851

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