Grants can help make a home handicap-friendly.
Life with a disability is never easy; doors can be too narrow, sinks too high and bathrooms too small. However, the needs of the disabled are now recognized on a wide scale, and help is available to those in need. Grants can help the handicapped to turn their homes into structures designed to accommodate their unique needs, whether it's installing a wheelchair ramp or outfitting a house with handrails, grant money can make it happen.
Handi-Ramp Grants
Hand-Ramp offers renovation grants to make homes wheelchair accessible.
The Handi-Ramp Foundation assists the disabled and their families in choosing a home suited to their needs and customizing it provide those in wheelchairs with easy access in and and around their houses. The organization offers a free consulting service to help families make the best decision when purchasing a house, helping them to choose something well suited to needs of a wheelchair user. The organization also provides grants for making further modifications to the home, installing wheelchair ramps, adjusting entryways and performing other required alterations as needed. Grant amounts vary according to the amount of work the home needs and a family's income.
Handi-Ramp Foundation
510 North Avenue
Libertyville, Illinois 60048
847-996-6299
handirampfoundation.org
Home Improvements and Structural Alterations Grant
A veteran's grant can be used to make a bathrooming accommodating to disabilities.
American veterans who suffered disabilities, including those caused by and not caused by military service, can apply for assistance to renovate their homes to make them handicapped friendly. The home improvements and structural alterations grant is available to vets with "a medical determination indicating improvements and structural alterations are necessary...for the effective and economical treatment of his/her disability." In 2010, the grants are worth up to $6,800 for those whose disability is connected their service and $2,000 for those with problems independent of the military. The grants can be used for things like lowering electrical switches, renovating the house entrance to make it wheelchair accessible and installing handrails.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
810 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20420
1-800-827-1000
va.gov
National Multiple Sclerosis Society Grant
A grant for sufferers of MS can be used to renovate the entry of a house.
Those with the nerve disease multiple sclerosis are sometimes unable to walk and otherwise function normally, and often, those with the condition need home renovations to accommodate wheelchairs and safety devices like handrails. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society offers grants to help with the expense of remodeling and making a home handicap accessible. Grant amounts vary according to need and applicants must be registered with the organization and file a financial assistance form which includes a doctor's diagnosis. The grants can be used for various adjustments, like lowering counters to wheelchair height or installing a ramp at the entryway of a house.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
733 Third Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10017
1-800-344-4867
nationalmssociety.org
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