Do you think you might be eligible for Attendance Allowance or Home Responsibilities Protection?
If you live in Scotland, you need to apply for Pension Age Disability Payment instead of Attendance Allowance.
You may be contacted unexpectedly by a company that offers to help you claim your benefits and entitlements. They may say they will claim on your behalf for free, with no upfront costs, but there are often hidden fees associated with their services. This can be as much as half of the money you are owed.
You can easily find yourself in a verbal contract that you didn’t realise you’d agreed to. If you are approached or know someone who has been contacted by one of these companies, you should take care to understand their offer and the fees associated with the help they are offering. If you are not careful, they may make a fraudulent claim on your behalf.
Don’t pay to claim. You don’t need to use these companies because it’s always free to claim your benefits and entitlements directly from the government.
Attendance Allowance helps with extra costs if you are State Pension Age or older and have a disability or health condition severe enough that you need someone to help look after you. Find out if you are eligible and the independent support available to help you claim.
If you claimed Child Benefit (formerly Family Allowance) between 1978 and 2010, you should have automatically received Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP). Unfortunately, for some people, HRP was not correctly recorded. Find out if you if are eligible and the independent support available to you claim.