Benefits and financial support if you're disabled or have a health condition
The following benefits and financial support information and advice is based on content from the GOV.UK website.
Find out what you could get
- Financial help if you're disabled
- Get benefits if you're nearing the end of life
- Benefits calculators
- Check benefits and financial support you can get
Find out more about benefit calculators
You can use an independent, free and anonymous benefits calculator to check what you could be entitled to. This will give you an estimate of:
- the benefits you could get
- how much your benefit payments could be
- how your benefits will be affected if you start work or increase your hours
- how your benefits will be affected if your circumstances change - for example, if you have a child or move in with your partner
Calculators
For information on income-related benefits, contribution-based benefits, Universal Credit, tax credits, Council Tax Reduction and Carer's Allowance use:
You can also check with a local benefits adviser to find out what you could be entitled to.
What you'll need
You'll need accurate information about your:
- savings
- income, including your partner's (from payslips, for example)
- existing benefits and pensions (including anyone living with you)
- outgoings (such as rent, mortgage, childcare payments)
- Council Tax bill
Who cannot use them
You cannot use the calculators if you're under 18, and they will not give accurate results if you're:
- a prisoner
- a student
- not a British or Irish citizen
- on strike
- living outside the UK
- living permanently in residential care or a nursing home
Find out more on the GOV.UK website.
Benefits and financial support
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Attendance Allowance
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children
- Health conditions, disability and Universal Credit
Work-related and armed forces injuries
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
- Claim if you were injured while serving in the armed forces
- Get compensation for health problems caused by mining
- Diffuse mesothelioma payments
- Reduced Earnings Allowance
Help to find or stay in work
- Work and Health Programme
- Apply for communication support at a job interview if you have a disability or health condition (Access to Work)
- Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition
- Intensive Personalised Employment Support
Other support
- Blind Person's Allowance
- Disabled Facilities Grants
- Vaccine Damage Payment
- Help if you're a student with a learning difficulty, health problem or disability
- Help if you have a disabled child
- What to do if you become disabled
- Support visits if you need help to claim benefits
Plymouth's Local Offer is organised into four main categories covering the following age ranges:
- Early years (0 to 5 years old)
- Primary (5 to 11 years old)
- Secondary (11 to 18 years old)
- Preparing for adulthood
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