Severe Disability Premium...Help please

Saversue

Robbie64 wrote: »

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.

Thanks for the information, but I don't get ant Income Support, just over the limit by what I can make out by doing one of those online calculations. Yes, I even have to pay for my prescriptions, 19 items per month. It's a good job I found out about the Prepayment Certificate - I don't think enough people know about them. Worse than that is the Dentist, mine has gone Private and I've just found out I need Two Triple Bridge Crowns replacing after root canal treatment. Think I might have to take out a loan to pay.

de1amo

Sue have you looked at completing a HC1 which contributes towards medical costs? there is hc1and hc2 that i know of-each of them targets a different part of health care costs--they are from the nhs

dmg24

de1amo wrote: »

Sue have you looked at completing a HC1 which contributes towards medical costs? there is hc1and hc2 that i know of-each of them targets a different part of health care costs--they are from the nhs

This would not cover private work.

de1amo

it wouldnt but if she found an nhs dentist it would make things free-if she cant afford the fee paying