The 56 well being circumstances that might entitle you to as much as £5,300 a yr
Attendance Allowance is a profit distributed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for folks over state pension age (at the moment 66) who want help with private care or supervision as a result of having an sickness or a incapacity.
Up to 1.6 million pensioners have been claiming the profit in 2022, current Government statistics present, but it surely’s thought that hundreds of thousands extra could also be eligible however aren’t looking for help.
While excessive dwelling prices proceed to squeeze budgets, Britons are being urged to verify in the event that they’re claiming all the monetary help they’re entitled to, and Attendance Allowance has broad eligibility standards.
There are 56 medical circumstances that might deem an individual eligible for Attendance Allowance and at its highest fee, is value £5,291 per yr.
To declare, state pension-age folks should have “been in” Great Britain (England, Scotland, or Wales) for the final two years, in addition to be habitually resident within the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands.
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The full checklist of 56 circumstances that may qualify for Attendance Allowance embody:
- Arthritis
- Spondylosis
- Back Pain – different/exact prognosis not specified
- Disease of the muscle tissue, bones or joints
- Trauma to limbs
- Blindness
- Deafness
- Heart illness
- Chest illness
- Asthma
- Cystic fibrosis
- Cerebrovascular illness
- Peripheral vascular illness
- Epilepsy
- Neurological ailments
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s illness
- Motor neurone illness
- Chronic ache syndromes
- Diabetes mellitus
- Metabolic illness
- Traumatic paraplegia/tetraplegia
- Major trauma apart from traumatic paraplegia/tetraplegia
- Learning difficulties
- Psychosis
- Psychoneurosis
- Personality dysfunction
- Dementia
- Behavioural dysfunction
- Alcohol and drug abuse
- Hyperkinetic syndrome
- Renal problems
- Inflammatory bowel illness
- Bowel and abdomen illness
- Blood problems
- Haemophilia
- Multi-system problems
- Multiple allergy syndrome
- Skin illness
- Malignant illness
- Severely mentally impaired
- Double amputee
- Deaf/blind
- Haemodialysis
- Frailty
- Total parenteral autrition
- AIDS
- Infectious ailments: Viral illness – coronavirus Covid-19
- Infectious ailments: Viral illness – exact prognosis not specified
- Infectious ailments: Bacterial illness – tuberculosis
- Infectious ailments: Bacterial illness – exact prognosis not specified
- Infectious ailments: Protozoal illness – malaria
- Infectious ailments: Protozoal illness – different/exact prognosis not specified
- Infectious ailments – different/exact prognosis not specified
- Cognitive dysfunction – different/exact prognosis not specified
- Terminally ailing.
A claimant should have been wanted for the previous six months until the individual has lower than 12 months to stay.
According to the DWP, folks additionally don’t have to have had a prognosis for his or her situation to use. As lengthy as they’ve wanted assist for no less than six months due to their situation, they will declare it.
However, Britons will not have the ability to get Attendance Allowance in the event that they already obtain Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Adult Disability Payment (ADP), or the care part of Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
Attendance Allowance charges 2023
Attendance Allowance is paid at two charges, the decrease fee and the upper fee. Payment charges are primarily based on how a lot assist is required, not any present assist the individual does or doesn’t get.
The decrease and better fee charges are:
- Lower fee: £68.10 per week (up from £61.85)
- Higher fee: £101.75 per week (up from £92.40).
This means at its highest fee, folks may get fee of as much as £441 a month.
People who need assistance through the day or at evening could possibly be eligible for the decrease fee, whereas individuals who need assistance throughout each the day and at evening or have a terminal sickness, could possibly be eligible for the upper fee.
To declare, folks have to fill out an Attendance Allowance type, which will be accessed by both calling the helpline on 0800 731 0122 or downloading it from the Government web site, here.