Severe Disability Premium...Help please

ExTra_2

That's right, your applicable amount would go up, so if you are not getting the max HB and Council Tax because of your income then having your applicable amount going up should mean your HB would go up too. Have you been getting the max HB all along?

Mackydees

yup been getting the max amount of HB and CTB...that side of it is all fine and dandy, tis just the rest of it that's annoying me!

Saversue

How much is the Severe Dsability Premium worth? I get Incapacity and High DLA, but nothing means tested as I didn't think there was anything else I could claim for.

Robbie64

Saversue wrote: »

How much is the Severe Dsability Premium worth? I get Incapacity and High DLA, but nothing means tested as I didn't think there was anything else I could claim for.

The SDP is £52.85 per week though you may not get that amount as it is a component part of Income Support. It depends how much your other income is. If you get the highest rate of DLA care you also could get an Enhanced Disability Premium of £13.40

As a single person aged 25+ this would add up to:

£64.30: Personal Allowance
£27.50: Disability Premium
£52.85: Severe Disability Premium
£13.40: Enhanced Disability Premium

Total amount = £158.05

less any Incapacity Benefit. DLA is ignored for this calculation, so it would amount to £158.05 plus DLA. But it has to be DLA highest care to get this amount. DLA Mobility is ignored in the calculation if you receive that too.

You have to have less than £16,000 in savings if under 60 to get anything and less than £6,000 to get the full amount.

Robbie64

That is for a single person, if you have a partner you may get less or nothing, depending on circumstances. In addition if anyone receives Carers Allowance for looking after you you can't get the SDP.

Saversue

Robbie64 wrote: »

The SDP is £52.85 per week though you may not get that amount as it is a component part of Income Support. It depends how much your other income is. If you get the highest rate of DLA care you also could get an Enhanced Disability Premium of £13.40

As a single person aged 25+ this would add up to:

£64.30: Personal Allowance
£27.50: Disability Premium
£52.85: Severe Disability Premium
£13.40: Enhanced Disability Premium

Total amount = £158.05

less any Incapacity Benefit. DLA is ignored for this calculation, so it would amount to £158.05 plus DLA. But it has to be DLA highest care to get this amount. DLA Mobility is ignored in the calculation if you receive that too.

You have to have less than £16,000 in savings if under 60 to get anything and less than £6,000 to get the full amount.

Thank You. I do get High Rate Care and High Rate Mobility and no one claims Carerer's Allowance, and I live on my own, but I also get a small pension as I had to take early retirement, due to ill health. Does that mean if my total income is more than £158.05, excluding DLA I can't claim, or do things like Mortgage and Council Tax get considered?

Mackydees

If I were you I'd put in a claim anyways...all they can do is say no after all!

de1amo

İ had a strange out of the blue form the other day--i think it was an sd54 or something--it came from the job centre and a must return threat on it! it was entitled incapacity benefit and severe disablement premimun- i dont claim sda and i am pretty much in the same boat as saver su---i am married but my wife is foreign and cant claim my carers allowance-i dont get any income support or hb -just ib a small pension dla at mid rate and low rate mobility-oh and cb but no ctc due to my wifes foreigness!!--forms with threats worry me!!

Robbie64

Saversue wrote: »

Thank You. I do get High Rate Care and High Rate Mobility and no one claims Carerer's Allowance, and I live on my own, but I also get a small pension as I had to take early retirement, due to ill health. Does that mean if my total income is more than £158.05, excluding DLA I can't claim, or do things like Mortgage and Council Tax get considered?

mortgage interest can be paid by Income Support and can be added to that £158.05, therefore increasing your weekly "needs" allowance. Council Tax can be covered by Council Tax Benefit which you claim from your local council. If you claim Income Support you can ask for it to be backdated for 1 month. You can ask for an award of Council Tax Benefit to be backdated for 6 months but you have to show good cause why you never claimed earlier. So even if you get Income Support, which will passport you to full Council Tax Benefit (although there used to be a limit on which council tax bands they would pay in full, I don't know if that still applies) you can also make a request to have the Council Tax Benefit backdated for 6 months.

On Income Support you will get free prescriptions, free NHS dental treatment etc.

de1amo

Did i miss Sue saying she was on income support?-can you be with a pension!?i am on İB which is non means tested because of my pension-maybe i am wrong???