What is Attendance Allowance?
Attendance Allowance is a tax-exempt
advantage you may get in case you're matured 65 or over and require help with
individual care since you have a physical or handicap.
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You may get Attendance Allowance in case you
are matured 65 or over and have required help with individual care on account
of a physical or mental incapacity for a half year.
Your disability must be sufficiently extreme
for you to require either:
Help with things, for example, washing (and
getting in or out of the shower or shower), dressing, eating, getting to and
utilizing the can, or conveying your necessities supervision to abstain from
putting yourself or others in a ton of peril, for instance, requiring somebody
to watch out for your medicinal condition or eating regimen somebody with you
when you are on dialysis You can get Attendance Allowance regardless of whether
nobody is really giving you the care you require and regardless of whether you
live alone.
Attendance Allowance rates
There are two rates of Attendance Allowance
contingent upon how your incapacity influences you.
Lower rate – In case you frequently require
help or supervision for the duration of the day just, or amid the night just or
somebody with you when you are on dialysis £57.30 Higher rate - in the event
that you regularly require help or supervision for the duration of the day and
amid the night £85.60
How to claim
Disability and Carers Service
You can call the Disability and Carers
Service and request to be sent a claim pack. The date of your telephone call
will be dealt with as your date of claim from which Attendance Allowance can be
paid, as long as you send your frame back inside about a month and a half of
that date.
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