The Rehab Group says it’s optimistic it can get the Health Minister to overturn the decision to cut Rehabilitative Training allowance.
The Rehab Group says it’s optimistic it can get the Health Minister to overturn the decision to cut Rehabilitative Training allowance.
The payment of €31.80 a week is to support people with disabilities and allow them to progress in further education or employment.
It comes after a government decision to end the allowance by the end of month but says the € 3.7 million saving over the next 4 years will go into day services instead.
Director of Communications and Shinrone’s Kathleen O’Meara says Minister Harris needs to reconsider:
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