Disability Alliance wants the '£4 pittance' to be reinstated

THE Guernsey Disability Alliance has criticised cuts that will see disabled people no longer getting paid to go to work.

The organisation has called for the immediate reinstatement of £4 a day attendance payments to those employed at Interwork or attending the St Martin's Community Centre.

But Health and Social Services minister Hunter Adam said last night that he felt more could be done to help the disadvantaged to earn and the broader subject would be discussed today by the Social Policy Group, which he chairs.

'I personally feel very strongly about this and will pursue it in my own way to a satisfactory solution,' he said.

HSSD announced last month that it would stop the payments – that cost it just over £20,000 a year – as part of its £6m. spending cuts.

Guernsey Disability Alliance chairwoman Shelaine Green (pictured) said the organisation had made representations as soon as the cuts were announced.

She said that a meeting on Wednesday night was attended by more than 20 disabled people.

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