PIP & Disability Premiums

glimpy123 wrote: If you do not receive ESA and receive only PIP, have no income/capital/savings etc, and live alone, should you still receive disability premiums?

Although you may meet the eligibility criteria for one or more premiums, you can only receive payment if your are receiving an Income Related benefit such as ESA(IR), JSA(IR), Income Support or Pension Credit.

Gordon

glimpy123 wrote: So, from my understanding, if you have no income and only receiving PIP, and have no savings/capital etc, you can still receive housing benefit & council tax benefit (because you have no income - PIP is disregarded) yet you cannot receive disability premiums. Is this correct?

As I said, you need to be receiving an Income Related benefit for a Premium to be paid.

Any Premiums you are eligible for should be taken into account when calculating the applicable amount for your Housing Benefit.

Gordon

glimpy123 wrote: I am finding this hard to understand. Since housing benefit is an income based benefit (and in a previous post you said that you need to be receiving an income base benefit to receive disability premiums), then I would have thought that in receiving PIP and housing benefit you should also receive disability premiums.

Housing Benefit does not work in the same way as the others, an "applicable amount" is calculated and the Premiums can increase this, if you earn less than the applicable amount then you get full HB, if you earn more then your HB is reduced in line with this.

If you are already receiving full HB then the Premiums will not increase the amount of money you are eligible to receive.

Gordon