CONCORD — The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire ruled that a class of New Hampshire residents may proceed with a lawsuit over their right to live independently instead of being placed in institutional care.

New Hampshire’s Choices for Independence program is supposed to help certain older adults and people with disabilities live independently in the community. Instead, the residents in the lawsuit allege the state’s administration of the CFI program does precisely the opposite — it places them at risk of the unnecessary institutionalization that the program exists to prevent.

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