Scottish care home residents denied attendance allowance

Community Care Market News (News) July 2003The government has been accused of wrongly withdrawing attendance allowance from more than 7,000 care home residents in Scotland. According to Help the Aged Scotland, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stopped self-funding care home residents from obtaining attendance allowance when free personal care was introduced, claiming that…

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