One of the reasons people are dependent on this grant is that the housing aid scheme for the elderly has effectively broken down, which means that many older people are using the physically disabled person's grant in order to have, in some cases, quite basic repairs carried out in their homes. They are getting letters telling them there is a four-year waiting list for the housing aid scheme. About two years ago, the Comptroller and Auditor General, in a report on the operation of that scheme, concluded that elderly people are probably dying before their time due to the housing conditions in which they are living and the inability of local authorities – or in this case the health boards – to implement the housing aid scheme to a satisfactory level.