A government grant that has been used to help people live independently for the last four years, is to be scrapped.
East Sussex County Council will lose the £1.72 million promoting independence grant from next March.
The grant is used to help adults continue living at home and the council's cash-starved social services department does not know if it will be replaced.
Keith Glazier, who holds the social services portfolio on the council's ruling Cabinet, said the grant supported dozens of care schemes for adults.
Many of the schemes had to continue operating and would have to be supported out of the overstretched main budget.
He said: "Some of them are so vital we shall have to put them somewhere else. The Government gave us this grant and now they are withdrawing it."
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