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Ministers have announced a U-turn on controversial plans to axe some benefit payments to disabled people living in care homes.

The government had planned to axe the mobility part of Disability Living Allowance for those in residential care but following criticism from charities, the decision has been reversed.

Disability groups while emphasising the "need to urge the Government to listen" and suggesting "this is the start but it is not the end" of their campaigns.

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