Lobby details below from Disabled People Against Cuts:

There’s just over a week to go before the government closes the Independent Living Fund – the fund that disabled people use to pay for the extra carer hours that they need to live in their own homes.

Many ILF recipients use their ILF money to pay for the personal assistants who help them get to work and to college and so on. The government’s decision to go ahead and close the ILF makes a complete mockery of claims that government is keen to support disabled people into work and to stay in work. Actually – the government’s decision to go ahead and close the ILF makes a complete mockery of any claims that government is keen to support disabled people in any way at all.

In England, local councils are supposed to pick up the tab for that extra care when the ILF shuts on 30 June. Funding will be devolved to councils for just a year. As has been widely reported, that transferring of responsibility to councils has been a major mess. Some ILF recipients in England have been left to guess whether or not their councils will pay for the care that the ILF covered, especially in an ongoing way.

The #SaveILF Campaign and Disabled People Against Cuts ask all ILF users and campaign supporters to join a final public lobby of MPs this Wednesday to protest at the closure:

11am
Wednesday 24 June
Public Lobby, Houses of Parliament

Video: ILF recipients explain how they use their ILF funding to live in their homes and communities:

We’re all in it together – aren’t we? from Moore Lavan Films on Vimeo.