Severe Disability Premium

[Penny For Them]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could provide me with information, regarding a single person's eligibility to the Severe Disability Premium.

 

The DirectGov website states the following:-

"If you are single, you may get the lower rate premium if you live alone, no one gets Carer's Allowance for looking after you and you get the middle or highest care component of Disability Living Allowance".

Is one still eligible for the lower rate premium if all the above applies, apart from living alone?

Many thanks

 

[Bookworm]

I would say no, seeing what you have posted from the DIrectGov site, it seems quite clear that it's only if you get middle or high. Presumable because if you're on low, it means your disability is not deemed "severe", so no entitlement. IMO.

[Penny For Them]

Hi Bookworm, thank you for your reply! Unfortunately, I don't think I made myself clear. Is one eligible for SDP if they are single, in receipt of middle rate care and lower rate mobility and nobody claims carers allowance for them. The only difference to the DirectGov criteria is that they do not live alone. They live with their carer who works part time and is not eligible to claim carers allowance because they earn a little over a £100 pw.

 

Many thanks

[dpick]

Hi I believe that you get the severe disability premium due to living alone I was informed by someone at DWP (this was in 2001) that you got the premium to help pay for extras that someone living with others would not require. Not 100% sure but it seems to ring a bell.

 

dpick

[Penny For Them]

Thank you dpick and bookworm for your replies, they are very much appreciated.

[Bookworm]

Sorry if mine wasn't helpful or misleading, just shows that when you don't know what you're talking about, you should just shut up.

[Penny For Them]

Hi Bookworm, to be fair to you, your answer was neither unhelpful or misleading. You gave an answer as you saw it, so don't be so hard on yourself

[reallymadwoman]

I can confirm that you only get the SDP if you live alone - I didn't qualify because my son was living with me and couldn't claim carer's allowance because he worked full time.

[Penny For Them]

Thank you reallymadwoman, you have confirmed what I had suspected.

[Laura Cooke]

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Edited December 20, 2010 by Laura Cooke
Got the answer elsewhere

[Rosie_and_Jim]

If you lived with someone, but that person was a non dependant ie another tenant in a house, would you be entitled to it, or would that be classed as living with someone??

 

Many thanks

[dpick]

Hi don't take this as gospel but to my mind if you are not dependent or connected with this other person ie you both have a separate tenancy then you should be classed as single.

 

dpick

[Diamond3187]

Hi don't take this as gospel but to my mind if you are not dependent or connected with this other person ie you both have a separate tenancy then you should be classed as single.

 

dpick

 

I know this is from 2010, however should anyone like me want to know the answer to this question, to save you time looking for it here it is...

 

Other people living in your household

For the purposes of severe disability premium your HB/CTB is not affected if other people living with you are:

children

or aged 16-17

or a person who is registered blind (if a person regains their sight, they are treated as blind for a period of 28 weeks after they cease to be registered blind)

or receiving the care component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) at the highest or middle rate, or Attendance Allowance (AA)

or people caring for you who are employed by a charity that makes a charge for this service

or landlords/ladies and their partners

or co-owners or co-tenants with you or your partner.

If you have a partner and one of you goes into hospital for more than four weeks, your DLA or AA will stop but you will continue to get the Severe Disability Premium, if you have already qualified for it, at the single rate.

 

 

I got this from the DWP website. I would have thought this would be the case seeing that tenants, landlords have no relation to you whatsoever and so should you experience any troubles they have absolutely no duty to help you, thus its as if you're living alone. In my case during University, due to depressions i always stayed in my room and never spoke to my flat'mates'. If i committed suicide they wouldn't have even known. The stench would've gave it away though... (sorry to be off putting but it's the truth), so yeah.

[BrandonsMummy]

Hi there, just wondering if anyone could clear this up for me... I am a single mom with a ten year old and have been awarded low mobility and middle care DLA. Nobody is claiming carers allowance for me so I'm a little unsure how the whole SDP works in conjunction with DLA...Can anyone shed some light on this for me, please?

[Nystagmite]

Hi there, just wondering if anyone could clear this up for me... I am a single mom with a ten year old and have been awarded low mobility and middle care DLA. Nobody is claiming carers allowance for me so I'm a little unsure how the whole SDP works in conjunction with DLA...Can anyone shed some light on this for me, please?

 

You need to getting mid rate care, classed as living alone (people under 18, people registered blind, those on mid or high rate care DLA and Attendance Allowance are ignored) and no-one claims carers allowance for you. SDP needs to be applied for. If you currently receive any out of work benefits, you need to phone the relevant department and ask them for a form to fill in.

[BrandonsMummy]

Apologies for my cluelessness!!! thank you for that. I filled out form that DSS sent me and posted back. It is just myself and young son at home, and some said i qulify for SDP and some said I don't.... Have to wait and see. Thanks again:wave:

[BrandonsMummy]

Just one more thing I need answering please...Can SDP only be claimed if claimant is in receipt of INCOME based ESA and NOT if their ESA is CONTRIBUTION based.. Please could someone reply asap. Very grateful. Kat

[Nystagmite]

No. If your income is low enough, you can claim income based too.