The manual wheelchair of a Black Watch officer’s widow living in a Care Home in the north
of Scotland was no longer suitable for the local terrain and the lady was becoming house-bound. She was awarded a one-off grant to pay a substantial part of the cost of a specialised electric wheelchair.
A widower
and war-time Coastal Command pilot was living alone on a very meagre pension. He
was awarded a full annual grant to enable him to maintain a car without which he could not continue living in his home
