Help with disability premiums please - SUCCESS!

Anubis_2

I must iron out the confusion regarding Severe Disability Allowance (SDA) and Severe Disability Premium (SDP)

The two different benefits are ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.

SDA was paid to those who are 80 percent or above disabled and above and can no longer be claimed by new claimants since 2001. It is not a premium, but an allowance paid on its own or with top ups of other benefits. I am on SDA myself, this is why I know the differences. More info here http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/Disabledpeople/DG_10018894

SDP - is a severe disability premium paid providing the claimant has other qualifying benefits and fits the other criteria. It cannot be paid on its own. The criteria is as follows:

The Severe Disability Premium
Single rate
If you're single, you may get the lower rate premium if you:
live alone
no one gets Carer's Allowance for looking after you
you get the middle or!highest care component of Disability Living Allowance
Couples (higher rate)
If you have a partner, you may get the higher rate premium. You may get this!if no one else lives with you, no one gets!Carer's Allowance for looking after you and!either:
you both get the middle or highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance
you get the middle or highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance and your partner gets Attendance Allowance
Couples (lower rate)
If you have a partner, you may get the lower rate premium if no one else lives with you and either:
you both get the middle or highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance, and Carer's Allowance is!paid for only one of you; or
you get the middle or highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance and your partner gets Attendance Allowance, and Carer's Allowance is paid for only one of you; or
you get the!middle or highest rate of Disability Living Allowance care component!and your partner is registered blind, and no one gets Carer's Allowance!for looking after!you
The Severe Disability Premium can be awarded in addition to other premiums.

For the severe disability premium you have to satisfy the above and you MUST be on DLA.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE THE DISABILITY PREMIUM AND SEVERE DISABILITY PREMIUM ARE NOT THE SAME

Anubis_2

the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote: »

I was told by DWP that a person only qualifies for disability premiums if they are on a means tested benefit such as income support or ESA.

Those on IB do not qualify.

Although, the link ritchie supplied states this:

receives Disability Living Allowance, Incapacity Benefit paid at the long term rate, Severe Disablement Allowance; or
has an invalid carriage, provided by the social security office; or
is registered blind.

Does this mean you fit ALL the criteria or just some of them?

That's for the disability premium and NOT the severe disability premium. The two are different, the disability premium is paid as a top up premium on IS, LTIB, SDA etc...

The severe disability premium you must be getting certain rates of DLA or AA:
The Severe Disability Premium
Single rate
If you're single, you may get the lower rate premium if you:
live alone
no one gets Carer's Allowance for looking after you
you get the middle or!highest care component of Disability Living Allowance
Couples (higher rate)
If you have a partner, you may get the higher rate premium. You may get this!if no one else lives with you, no one gets!Carer's Allowance for looking after you and!either:
you both get the middle or highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance
you get the middle or highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance and your partner gets Attendance Allowance
Couples (lower rate)
If you have a partner, you may get the lower rate premium if no one else lives with you and either:
you both get the middle or highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance, and Carer's Allowance is!paid for only one of you; or
you get the middle or highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance and your partner gets Attendance Allowance, and Carer's Allowance is paid for only one of you; or
you get the!middle or highest rate of Disability Living Allowance care component!and your partner is registered blind, and no one gets Carer's Allowance!for looking after!you
The Severe Disability Premium can be awarded in addition to other premiums.