tornandfrayed
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
I'm not sure it is, TBH. Quite a lot of it seems to be more about them imagining that people housebound with anxiety and depression are a bit fed up, and that putting in a couple of grab handles and a raised loo seat will cover all the additional costs of people with mobility problems.
I'm probably wrong, I haven't looked at the documents. Too overwhelmed.
Others will probably have actual experience of this and maybe I’m wrong but the proposal around changing to vouchers to help with adaptations doesn’t appear in any event to be something new because the Disabled Facilities Grant already exists. Albeit that you have to apply to your local council for this and it’s no doubt very difficult to get. So using something already available,if not in exactly the same way, as some kind of new approach is disingenuous to say the least.
The announcements seem to be about replacing the all the income from PIP with vouchers or/and very minor adaptations or aids.