What is Attendance Allowance?

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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