Community Care Grant

If you need financial help to live independently in the community or to ease exceptional pressure on you and your family, you may be able to get a Community Care Grant. You don’t have to pay it back.

You may be able to claim if: 

• You get income support or a similar benefit
• You’re moving out of residential/institutional care to live independently
• You’re moving to a new home which will be more suitable for you following an unsettled period in your life and are being resettled by an organization like a local council or voluntary organisation
• You need help to stay in your home and not go into residential care or hospital
• You need help because you or your family face exceptional pressure, such as family breakdown or because one of you has a long-term illness
• You look after someone who is ill or disabled, or has been released from custody on temporary licence
• You need help with expenses such as visiting someone who is ill, or to attend a relative’s funeral

Amount:

Depends on circumstances (amount may be reduced if you have savings of a certain level).

The Social Fund and other sources of funding may also be available (such as budgeting loans and funeral grants) depending upon circumstances.

More information:

Direct Gov Benefits, Tax Credits and Other Support – DG10018921

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