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You are here: Home / News / Learning and physical disabilities /The £359m Independent Living Fund which supports more than 21,000 people with severe disabilities is to be phased out by 2015. The ILF pays out an average of £300 a week, to help people pay for carers so they can live at home and not in a care home.
It was already shut to new applicants for this year and will now shut to new claims permanently, said the minister for disabled people, Maria Miller.
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