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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Butler Social policy editor

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Pensioner with severe learning disabilities could face eviction over care costs dispute - You Need To See This

Oona Herzberg and her brother Hugh Kirsch.
Hugh Kirsch, 66, with his sister Oona Herzberg. Hundreds of contract disputes have erupted between cash-strapped councils and financially struggling care providers. Photograph: Oona Kirsch

A pensioner with severe learning disabilities who was a victim of one of the most notorious care home abuse scandals of recent years has been told he faces eviction over a dispute about who pays for the costs of his state-funded care.

The family of Hugh Kirsch, 66, said they had been warned he would have to leave his supported home because the council that funds his care refused to increase fees in line with costs and his care provider could no longer afford to subsidise the price.

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