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To: Department for Communities and Local Government
Disabled Facilities Grants
Make getting a Disabled Facilities Grant fairer by not assuming that income is the same as capital in the means test..
Why is this important?
I am almost 62, have a serious heart condition and I need a disabled facility grant because I cannot get my electric wheelchair in the front door and I cannot turn the wheelchair in our narrow hallway in order to store it in our small front bedroom. I cannot get a disabled facility grant without paying my local council £4601 towards the grant it and I haven't got the money to do that. The DFG means test considers disabled people with an occupational pension have got more than they need to live on, But the means test ignores the fact that some disabled people may have a mortgage to pay, as we do and thus the means test discriminates against disabled mortgagees. The means test also expects carers to put their carer's allowance towards a grant for the disabled person they look after and this is discrimination against carers. It is also totally morally wrong.
