Disability Allowance : Contents
Types of costs
Disability Allowance only covers certain types of costs.
If a client has an additional cost that is not one of the types of costs listed below, they usually cannot be paid Disability Allowance. Call Helpline for advice.
For more information see:
- Alternative treatment
- Ambulance fees and subscriptions
- Authorised consumables
- Clothing
- Counselling
- Day care for older disabled people
- Gardening, lawns and outside window cleaning
- Gym and swimming pool fees
- Medical alarms
- MedicAlert costs
- Medical fees
- Nicotine replacement products
- Pharmaceutical charges
- Power, gas and heating
- Private paying patients
- Rental equipment
- Residential care services
- Special foods
- Telephone
- Transport - counselling
- Transport - disability
- Transport - personal health
- Vitamins, supplements, herbal remedies and minerals
