Disability
Living with a disability
Money to help you to live independently
Funding identified in the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 aims to support you in your own home rather than in residential care.The Direct Payments Scheme provides you with cash so that you can arrange your own care services. Hertfordshire Personal Assistance Support Service (PASS) can help you, if you'd like to explore this approach.
Other grants and tax exemptions and reductions are available to help meet the extra costs associated with living with a disability.
- Paying for adaptations
Disabled Facilities Grants, House Renovation & Home Repair Assistance Grants
- VAT exemption
Availabe on domestic or personal goods specifically designed for disabled users
- Council tax disability reduction scheme
Where additional space or rooms are used by a disabled person
- Guide to benefits
Information on benefits to which you or your carer may be entitled
- Direct payments for adults
Money for you to get the support you have been assessed as needing
- Hertfordshire Personal Assistance Support Service
PASS supports people wishing to use Direct Payments
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