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Households with disabled person will be average of £156 a year worse off under Government benefits plans
Millions of disabled people to lose out
Sunday 20 January 2013
Millions of disabled people will lose out under the Government’s plans to keep the annual rise in benefits below the cost of living, it emerged last night.
Pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed that one in three households with a disabled person will be £156 a year worse off on average of under new rules capping the rise in most benefit payments to 1 per cent – 1.7 per cent below the current rate of inflation.
How Norfolk’s carers beat the weather
When the bad weather sets in in Norfolk, taking a “snow day” is not an option for the county’s carers.
Carer Sue Hewitt visiting Norwich pensioner Helen Parker in her home. Photo: Steve Adams
By Victoria Leggett Saturday, January 19, 2013
12:45 PM
When the bad weather sets in in Norfolk, taking a “snow day” is not an option for the county’s carers.
For Sue Hewitt, home support worker for the Norfolk County Council-run Norfolk First Support service, dangerous roads and traffic jams simply mean abandoning her car and walking to the homes of the vulnerable people she needs to visit.
She said: “I would do everything in my power to make sure that person sees a carer. They really need them.
“Sometimes we are the only people they see. Even if they have family, they might not be venturing out because of the snow.”
