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Disabled Facilities Grant

urspecial

Hi All,

But has anyone had any success in getting the DFG or having minor adaptions in the house.

I would need to have rails and prehaps a small wet area in my bathroom, as my current mental health and Autism are making it very difficult for me to currently use them plus there's damp which increases my anxiety further.

I would be assessed by an OT but my local council has trained their OTs in Autism yet, so there may be problems with this.

 

Anywho, any advice?

 

urspecial

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  • ...had a pretty prompt reply with an email address to request the application form (incidentally, not an email address that is on the council's website even when searching for the name of the grant) and lots of information about the grant and housing options.

    Amazing what a bit of standing your ground will do - and amazing how fobbing off is always the initial response, how many poor people go off believing they cannot get help?

    Not to say our application will be successful of course, it feels like a horse race where you have to get over never-ending jumps, I'm sure they will do everything they can to refuse it on some grounds or other (and if they can't they will no doubt re-write policy so that no-one else can get it on the grounds of autism).

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  • ...had a pretty prompt reply with an email address to request the application form (incidentally, not an email address that is on the council's website even when searching for the name of the grant) and lots of information about the grant and housing options.

    Amazing what a bit of standing your ground will do - and amazing how fobbing off is always the initial response, how many poor people go off believing they cannot get help?

    Not to say our application will be successful of course, it feels like a horse race where you have to get over never-ending jumps, I'm sure they will do everything they can to refuse it on some grounds or other (and if they can't they will no doubt re-write policy so that no-one else can get it on the grounds of autism).

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