Question 12816 — people with disabilities

Summary

Mr. Julien Rancoule draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and Disabled People to the situation of visually impaired and blind people with regard to the conditions required to benefit from the personalized autonomy allowance (APA). In addition to the conditions of age and domicile, people wishing to benefit from this financial assistance must be unable to assume the consequences of the lack or loss of autonomy linked to the physical or mental state and needing help to carry out essential acts of life or being in a state requiring regular monitoring. This loss of autonomy is assessed using the AGGIR grid, which classifies applicants into six groups taking into account their degree of dependence, the personalized autonomy allocation concerning groups one to four. However, today, people suffering from blindness sometimes manage to organize themselves in their daily lives to overcome their handicap and acquire a certain independence. Unfortunately, they may then be refused any allowance on the grounds that they do not suffer from any objectively quantifiable loss of autonomy. Even if this argument is justifiable, taking into account the legislation in force, it nevertheless remains that this situation is unfair given the difficulties these people still have to face on a daily basis. Despite several questions both in the National Assembly and in the Senate in the past, no satisfactory response has been provided. However, visually impaired or blind people trying to overcome the disadvantages of their disability do not fall within the GIR classification criteria. Furthermore, if the service disability compensation (PCH) exists, it does not always cover the specific needs of the elderly people concerned or may prove difficult to mobilize in certain situations. Consequently, he asks him to kindly indicate whether a change in the APA award criteria is envisaged, or failing that if a specific compensatory measure is being studied in this hypothesis.

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