Disabled Facilities Grants
(asked on 19th April 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of amending the means testing of the Disabled Facilities Grant in response to the cost of living and inflationary pressures.
This question was answered on 27th April 2022
The Government has announced £573 million for the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) in each year from 2022/23 to 2024/25 and committed to consult on reforms to the DFG in 2022. including the means test. We will consider how the means test could be aligned with charging reforms and the cost of living and inflation will be taken into account.