Is it usual for an Attendance Allowance to be treated as income for the assessment of a disabled facilities grant ? I saw this on the DWP web site which made me hopeful that it might not be !
'Means testing will take into account savings above a certain limit. Certain benefits including Disability Living Allowance and Income Support are generally ignored'

The maximum grant that can be paid is £30,000 per
application in England and £36,000 in Wales.

To ensure that the grant goes to the most needy
households, the amount of grant you will get will
also be decided by a means test which will look at
the income and capital of the disabled person and
their spouse or partner, collectively called the relevant
person. Where the application is for a disabled child or
young person under the age of nineteen there is no
means test.

The test calculates the relevant person’s average
weekly income, taking account of any savings above
a certain limit (certain state benefits are ignored).
This is then set against an assessment of basic needs,
which are recognised by a range of premiums and
allowances, to reflect outgoings.

I would strongly suspect that AA should be ignored as income, under the (in brackets above) exclusion, that "certain state benefits are ignored."

To be precise:

Excess income for inclusion in the DFG, is when your income is greater than your applicable amount. The income of those on income support, income-based jobseeker's allowance/joint jobseeker's allowance or pension credit is deemed to be nil and these people are not normally required to make a contribution.

Working tax credit and child tax credit are disregarded as income, this is designed to directly assist working families on low incomes with children.

Income from either Disability Living Allowance or Attendance Allowance is ignored when working out your income.

People in receipt of council tax benefit, housing benefit and tax credits for those on low incomes will not be required to provide any further financial information.

Only those savings above £6000 are taken into account.

Thanks - that was my expectation also.
Are the words in your second reply your own or did you lift them from some regulations ? If its the latter, where ?
Thanks
Angela

Hi Angela

The original legislation is The Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996 (SI 1996/2980). Those regulations were subsequently amended by The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2005 (SI 2005/3323) and The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) (England) Regulations (SI 2008/1190). The primary enabling legislation is The Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.

Regards
Paul

Thanks Paul - that's great.
I shall be supremely confident when I talk to the Council now
Best wishes
Angela