My disabled daughter has £57 per week to live on
What more is there left to cut in your budget George Osborne?
The reality of her not being able to live at home is causing me to cry as I write this – nobody wants this situation, but it is our reality
At the end of June of this year our learning disabled autistic daughter who has a profound developmental delay and behaviours that challenge, has to leave her residential school, where she is currently living, because they can’t manage her needs.
In effect she will be homeless.
The Clinical Commissioning Group have said they will fund her care which will require carers initially so at least she will have someone with her 24 hours a day, but everything else will require benefits.
After initially being refused Employment and Support Allowance, she has been allocated £57 per week. £228 per month from which we’ll have to find her food, rent, electricity, gas, water, clothes and all other utilities which all of us need to live.
