Attendance Allowance is rising soon – how much more can you expect under new rates | Personal Finance | Finance

The rise will mean state pensioners on the higher rate will soon receive more than £400 a month, but not all pensioners will receive the same amount. Exactly how much depends on someone’s condition and how it affects their everyday lives. Attendance Allowance it is still the most underclaimed benefit with 3.4 million pensioners missing out on this Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefit.

Richard Lane, director of External Affairs at StepChange Debt Charity, said: “With the news that inflation has now reached 11 percent, this support will soften the impact, particularly as the current cap on typical household energy bills is due to be lifted from the spring.

“The rise in the living wage will also go some way to offset soaring inflation which tends to affect those on the lowest incomes most acutely.

“While the Government’s announcements are welcome, it’s far from clear that the support offered will be enough to prevent rising financial difficulty and hardship this winter.

“Those who receive means-tested benefits are facing the biggest fall in real income and will be exposed to hardship and destitution.”

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The DWP says 56 health conditions qualify for Attendance Allowance:

• Arthritis

• Spondylosis

• Back Pain – Other / Precise Diagnosis not Specified

• Disease of The Muscles, Bones or Joints

• Trauma to Limbs

• Blindness

• Deafness

• Heart disease

• Chest disease

• Asthma

• Cystic Fibrosis

• Cerebrovascular Disease

• Peripheral vascular Disease

• Epilepsy

• Neurological Diseases

• Multiple Sclerosis

• Parkinson’s Disease

• Motor Neurone Disease

• Chronic Pain Syndromes

• Diabetes Mellitus

• Metabolic Disease

• Traumatic Paraplegia/Tetraplegia

• Major Trauma Other than Traumatic Paraplegia/Tetraplegia

• Learning Difficulties

• Psychosis

• Psychoneurosis

• Personality Disorder

• Dementia

• Behavioural Disorder

• Alcohol and Drug Abuse

• Hyperkinetic syndrome

• Renal Disorders

• Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Bowel and Stomach Disease

• Blood Disorders

• Haemophilia

• Multi System Disorders

• Multiple Allergy SyndromeSkin Disease

• Malignant Disease

• Severely Mentally impaired

• Double Amputee

• Deaf/Blind

• Haemodialysis

• Frailty

• Total Parenteral Nutrition

• AIDS

• Infectious diseases: Viral disease – Coronavirus covid-19

• Infectious diseases: Viral disease – precise diagnosis not specified

• Infectious diseases: Bacterial disease – Tuberculosis

• Infectious diseases: Bacterial disease – precise diagnosis not specified

• Infectious diseases: Protozoal disease – Malaria

• Infectious diseases: Protozoal disease – other / precise diagnosis not specified

• Infectious diseases – other / precise diagnosis not specified

• Cognitive disorder – other / precise diagnosis not specified

• Terminally Ill.