Can You Keep Attendance Allowance If You Are In A Cre Home That Social Services Is Paying For?

[bednobs]

thanks

[ladyalex]

Don't think you can.
Pretty sure that Dad's Attendance Allowance vanished when he went into a Nursing Home.....but he was in Scotland where things are done differently.
Still, doesn't seem reasonable to me that if Social Services or whoever is paying for a Care Home that the person should retain Attendance Allowance which is for Care.

[naomi24]

Doubt it. There would be nothing to justify you keeping it.

[Mamyalynne]

//Attendance Allowance stops after you have spent 28 days in:

an NHS hospital
residential care funded by your council or trust, or the NHS
If you pay for residential care without help (see final bullet point above) Attendance Allowance continues to be paid in full. //

http://www.carersuk.org/help-and-advice/financial-support/help-with-benefits/attendance-allowance

[DTCwordfan]

Carer's allowances stop too...

[bednobs]

thanks for the answers - my MIL is going into nursing care, paid for by social services. They have given an amount of £565 that they are willing to fund up to pw. Then they will take her pension to fund towards this. She will also get funded nursing care (from the NHS of 112 pw), which takes it to £677. Problem is, nursing homes start at around £790 pw here, and we can't afford to top it up ourselves to the tune of around £500 per month. She has no savings or assets, so we are not quite sure what to do next

[bednobs]

carers allowance is not an issue - no-one gets it for her