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The High Court is to begin hearing a challenge to government plans to scrap a ?320m scheme that helps people with severe disabilities live independently.
The six disabled people bringing the judicial review will question the legality of the move to close the Independent Living Fund from 2015.
More than 19,000 people in the UK get payments from the ILF.
The government says councils, which administer most social care, will take over funding this help.
The claimants fear disabled people could be forced out of independent living arrangements and into residential care, or trapped at home by the fund's closure.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21766113
The six disabled people bringing the judicial review will question the legality of the move to close the Independent Living Fund from 2015.
More than 19,000 people in the UK get payments from the ILF.
The government says councils, which administer most social care, will take over funding this help.
The claimants fear disabled people could be forced out of independent living arrangements and into residential care, or trapped at home by the fund's closure.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21766113