Severe Disablement Allowance & Carer's Allowance

Olana

I'll try to be as clear as possible, as I know it can get very confusing posing these kind of questions.

My other half:
- receives DLA (not sure on his award)
- works

I:
- receive DLA high rate mobility, and high rate care
- receive Carer's Allowance due to my other half's DLA
- receive NI credits associated with an ESA claim (Income related, Support Group), but no money with this claim, due to other half working.
- unable to work.

Unfortunately, we do not share our income, so while we're not supposed to use DLA as living income, I am being forced to.

I am aware that with the rate of DLA I am claiming, I could also claim Severe Disablement Allowance.

I know that it is an either or situation - I claim SDA, or he claims Carer's from my DLA claim.

What I cannot find anywhere online, is information that tells me whether I can claim SDA for myself as well as Carer's for him.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thank you for any responses

Tigsteroonie

I thought the SDA had been replaced by ESA?

Mojisola

https://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/benefits_e/benefits_sick_or_disabled_people_and_carers_ew/benefits_for_people_who_are_sick_or_disabled.htm
You cannot get Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA) if you are making a new claim because this benefit was abolished in April 2001. If you are already getting Severe Disablement Allowance, you can carry on getting it.

Olana

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I thought the SDA had been replaced by ESA?

ESA replaced Incapacity Benefit, and certain parts of Income Support.

Olana

Mojisola wrote: »

You cannot get Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA) if you are making a new claim because this benefit was abolished in April 2001. If you are already getting Severe Disablement Allowance, you can carry on getting it.

I assume you mean new claim for SDA, rather than DLA? I know SDA was abolished with DLA, so people making new claims for PIP can't get it, but I'm already in receipt of DLA .

Mojisola

Olana wrote: »

My other half:
- receives DLA (not sure on his award)
- works

I:
- receive DLA high rate mobility, and high rate care
- receive Carer's Allowance due to my other half's DLA
- receive NI credits associated with an ESA claim (Income related, Support Group), but no money with this claim, due to other half working.
- unable to work.

Unfortunately, we do not share our income

Why are you living with a partner who isn't sharing his income with you?

Your benefits are reduced because of his earnings - you should be operating as a couple and sharing all the income coming into the household.

Olana

How odd. I've just looked at the link you copied from, Mojisola.

A little background on myself: I've been an online benefits advisor for ESA, for the last three plus years. I've never before heard of people being transferred to ESA from SDA.

I'm also a little baffled at the year 2001 it quotes, as we've had claimants applying for, and receiving it, all the way up to the change to PIP.

How frustrating. This means I cannot afford the treatment I require

Olana

Mojisola wrote: »

Why are you living with a partner who isn't sharing his income with you?

Your benefits are reduced because of his earnings - you should be operating as a couple and sharing all the income coming into the household.

Would you like to tell him that? lol. The way he sees it; he earns it, it's his. If I want more money I should earn it - which unfortunately, simply isn't possible

We do live in separate rooms, so I could try claiming that he's a house-mate, but it'd be dishonest.

Mojisola

Olana wrote: »

Would you like to tell him that? lol. The way he sees it; he earns it, it's his. If I want more money I should earn it - which unfortunately, simply isn't possible

I couldn't live a man who treated me like that.

Mojisola

There's a Severe Disability Premium rather than Allowance - is that what you meant?
https://www.gov.uk/disability-premiums-income-support/eligibility

pmlindyloo

Olana wrote: »

Would you like to tell him that? lol. The way he sees it; he earns it, it's his. If I want more money I should earn it - which unfortunately, simply isn't possible

We do live in separate rooms, so I could try claiming that he's a house-mate, but it'd be dishonest.

But does he realise that the fact that he is working means that you are not entitled to your own benefit?