The charity Contact a Family has joined up with financial advisersPeppermint Financial Solutions to provide free telephone consultationsthat would normally cost upwards of 100 an hour.
"Most families with disabled children are on the lower end of the incomescale and half of disabled children grow up in the margins ofpoverty.
This scheme brings financial advice to people who are sometimes indesperate straits," said Jill Harrison, Contact a Family's director ofexternal affairs.
Funding for the scheme, from HM Revenue and Customs, has been secureduntil the end of March 2007.
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