{"id":815231,"date":"2026-10-27T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815231\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T07:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:32:18","slug":"9-common-health-conditions-state-pensioners-can-get-76-per-week-for-personal-finance-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815231\/","title":{"rendered":"9 common health conditions state pensioners can get \u00a376 per week for | Personal Finance | Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

State pensioners with nine common health conditions can get an extra weekly cash boost of up to \u00a376.70 from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).<\/p>\n

People of State Pension age<\/a> who suffer from a health condition that means they require a certain level of care can get payments to help with living costs by claiming the DWP<\/a> benefit Attendance Allowance<\/a>. The benefit is available to eligible pension-age people in England<\/a>, Wales and Northern Ireland, while in Scotland, you can get Pension Age Disability Payment (PADP) instead, which is paid at the same rate. Both Attendance Allowance<\/a> and PADP are paid at two different rates – a higher and lower amount based on the level of care that you need.<\/p>\n

The lower amount is for people who require help or supervision during the day or supervision at night, and is paid at a rate of \u00a376.70 per week. The higher amount is for those who need help or supervision throughout both the day and night, or if a medical professional has said you’re nearing the end of life, and is paid at a rate of \u00a3114.60 per week. This works out to \u00a33,988.40 per year or \u00a35,959.20 per year, respectively.<\/p>\n

While there isn\u2019t a definitive list of health conditions that qualify for Attendance Allowance<\/a>, the DWP does have a list of the main disabling conditions recorded on its Disability Living Allowance computer system, which include the following nine common health conditions.<\/p>\n

If you have one of these, you may be eligible to qualify for a weekly payment of up to \u00a376.70 from the DWP, but it\u2019s important to note that this is not a checklist for qualifying and is simply an overview of the type of common conditions that are being supported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State pensioners with nine common health conditions can get an extra weekly cash boost of up to \u00a376.70…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11873,8406,2898,4029,2219,24311,2215,59,102,13891,9777,2750,1701,2221,2899,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-arthritis","tag-asthma","tag-attendance-allowance","tag-benefits","tag-department-for-work-and-pensions","tag-disabilities","tag-dwp","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-health-conditions","tag-hearing-loss","tag-heart-disease","tag-parkinsons-disease","tag-state-pension","tag-state-pensioners","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}