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Additional entitlements and benefits if you claim DLA.
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If you live alone and are on income support, if you get mid or high rate care DLA, and no-one is claiming carer's allowance, you get a severe disability premium on top of IS and disability premium.
If another adult comes to live in your house (even if they don't claim the carer's allowance) you lose the severe disability premium.I'm a retired employment solicitor. Hopefully some of my comments might be useful, but they are only my opinion and not intended as legal advice.0 -
zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »If you live alone and are on income support, if you get mid or high rate care DLA, and no-one is claiming carer's allowance, you get a severe disability premium on top of IS and disability premium.
If another adult comes to live in your house (even if they don't claim the carer's allowance) you lose the severe disability premium.
This the same on ESA0 -
zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »If another adult comes to live in your house (even if they don't claim the carer's allowance) you lose the severe disability premium.
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