Green Ink drew my attention to the fact that the government have imposed charges on intellectually challenged people who are living independantly. And they’ve applied them retrospectively so they owe tonnes of money all of a sudden out of the blue.

Fergus Finlay wrote a piece in the Irish Examiner, you should read it:

People with an intellectual disability who live in community settings are now to be charged about half their income for the privilege. People with more disabilities are to be charged more. Under the law of the land, they are being sent bills for thousands of euro in back-money.

Green Ink and Dan Sullivan have a petition going to get the charges rolled back as they will deny people with intellectual disabilities the right to live independently.

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