Posted in News on Feb 12th, 2010
The Daily Telegraph has published an article offering advice on minimizing the amount paid for care whilst ensuring that children will receive an inheritance. Tips offered include:
Make sure you claim all the welfare benefits to which you are entitled. Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance are not currently means-tested.
If your condition changes, ask for your [...]
Posted in News on Nov 18th, 2009
Plaid Cymru Assembly Member Leanne Wood has voiced her concern over the effect on the Welsh disabled population of the UK Government choosing to scrap Attendance Allowance (AA). The abolition of AA is proposed in the English Green Paper, published in July 2009, as part of the shake-up of the social care system. [...]
Posted in News on Oct 15th, 2009
In July’s Green Paper on the future of the social care system and its funding, one of the ideas put forward was the abolition of certain disability benefits and the re-routing of the resulting funds into social care provision. The benefits in question are Attendance Allowance (AA) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) which are [...]
Posted in News on Sep 30th, 2009
Further to the publication of the Government Green Paper on the reform of social care, ‘Shaping the future of care together’, the Government reports that the consultation process – otherwise known as the Big Care Debate – is going well. The aim was to spark a nationwide debate on the future of adult social [...]
Posted in News on Apr 16th, 2009
Statistics have shown that many older people in Northumberland are not claiming benefits to which they are entitled due to lack of information. Health experts in the region have now started a campaign to make pensioners aware of the Attendance Allowance (AA) benefit, which could make a real difference to their quality of life. [...]
