Defend Disabled People’s Right To Independent Living
June 2, 2015
Soap stars and disabled campaigners explain why the Independent Living Fund (ILF) is such a vital source of support and why it should not close. #SaveILF
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Same Difference 
Reblogged this on rennydiokno.com.
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i areeg they should not close the ILF it would be a very sad day for all members of the ILF
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I am a user of Ilf and the social services came here yesterday and I was told quie blatantly that i am going to get the minimum from SS I am devastated by the disision
I will appeal I am high priority they have taken my life away and I thinking suicide is best I will not be able to get to my doctors will not be able to go to hospital appointment I will not get any social life what so ever I am desperate
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Debra – have you heard of NHS Continuing Healthcare? If you haven’t, please please, Google it, and ask Social Services for a referral. You’ll be asked a number of questions, and if you are suitable ( which I imagine you will be if you’re an ILF a claimant ) then your referral will be assessed by a team. If you get it? It means you’ll be awarded a budget – much the same as ILF, I imagine, and you’ll be able to receive free care.
Please look at this option, and don’t give up just yet. People care – I care. My very best wishes to you my love xxx
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The ILF is a lifeline to severely disabled people. It would actually cost Social Care MORE by scrapping this very important fund.
We have spent decades moving disabled people out of institutions – and rightly so – and the TORY Party want to undo all that GOOD work. Don’t severely disabled people deserve lives? Deserve the chance to have jobs? And to ‘fit in’ to society?
As a wheelchair user myself, and before illness, having cared for my own mum, whom has multiple sclerosis, I/we feel unimportant to the TORY Party, who have made it clear that they do not have empathy nor understanding when it comes to disability.
The ILF is a life saver for some. WHY are they taking away something that IS cost effective? It just does not make sense.
We need to fight this all the way!
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