Disability Premiums
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What will you get?
How are you paid?
Overview
Disability premiums are extra amounts of money added to your:
Income Support
income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
Housing Benefit
Any money you get is added to your benefit payments automatically so you usually do not have to apply for a disability premium.
Types of Disability Premium
There are 3 types of disability premium for adults:
disability premium
enhanced disability premium
severe disability premium
You can get more than one premium at a time.
What will you get?
You can get the disability premium on its own and you might get the severe or enhanced disability premium as well if you are eligible for them.
If you get income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) you cannot get the disability premium, but you may still qualify for the severe and enhanced premiums.
Disability premium
You will get:
£42.50 a week for a single person
£60.60 a week for a couple
Severe disability premium
You will get:
£81.50 a week for a single person
£163.00 a week for a couple if you’re both eligible
Some couples will be eligible for the lower amount of £81.50 a week instead.
Enhanced disability premium
You will get:
£20.85 a week for a single person
£29.75 a week for a couple if at least one of you is eligible
How are you paid?
All benefits, pensions and allowances are paid into an account such as your bank account.
There is a limit on the total amount of benefit that most people aged 16 to under State Pension age can get. This is called a benefit cap.