Hello Stotty1 - happy to hear your PIP has been awarded. As Liam above says, the links will take you to useful information about the Severe Disability Premium. To summarise, the SDP will be worth an extra £62.45 a week, paid on top of the personal allowance, support component and enhanced disability premium which are already part of income related ESA in the Support Group. The SDP is paid IF you are 'treated as' living alone, AND no-one is claiming Carer's Allowance for looking after you AND you are getting either Daily Living component of PIP. If all of those factors are in place, then your ESA should rise to £188 a week, assuming you have no other income to be taken into account. The test of living alone is who is in your 'household' or claiming unit. If you have no partner, no dependant and no non-dependant living with you, then even if you are in supported housing you should be treated as living alone. Other people that you may share communal facilities with are not counted as being in your household, as long as you have your own room and your own personal tenancy agreement. You should get your SDP backdated to the date of your PIP daily living award. Tell DWP straight away that you have been awarded PIP and that you want the SDP to start being included in your ESA. They may send you a form to sign to confirm all the above. I hope this is helpful!

Jayne

hello i use to get 

Severe disability 

  on top of my income support but it stoped after 2 years I have a husband but he's  on a visa witch he's  in no recipt of public funds and can't claim nothing due to his visa conditions.....i get pip stranded rate care and im a carer for my sister I did get a letter when I was a warded pip saying I could be awared severe disability and got it but only £61.85 
Thank You 

Karen

Hi...i was getting SDP at the rate of  £61.85 not £62.45  at single rate then DWP stoped it this week.....I read on the DWP this if you are part of a couple and your partner is registered blind, you can still qualify for SDP paid at the single rate even if your partner does not get a qualifying benefit.he don't get no benefits.....No carers no PIP No Benifits at all as he in no recipt of PUBLIC FUNDS.....so don't understand why DWP as stoped the  SDP 

Thank You 
 

Why as my post not been looked at with a benefit adviser please 

I do get one of them benefits I get pip standered rate care.....But I have also said my partner don't get no qualifying benefit as he on a visa with no receipt of public funding....and I was asking some one told me on hear if your partner moves in I would get the SDP for 3month after then it will stop 

Thank you

kass,

I'm afraid Poppy is right. You can't get the SDP if you live with a partner who doesn't get disability benefits. There is no 3 month rule, so as soon as you live with a partner, the SDP should stop.

I think the confusion comes from the fact that there is a 3 month rule if someone who is not part of your family (a non-dependant) comes to live with you to look after you as a carer.

If your partner is registered blind then the decision to stop your SDP would be wrong and you should ask for a mandatory reconsideration. If he isn't, then I'm sorry, but the decision looks right.

Will

Hello Kass

Unfortunately it is purely about whether you are living with your partner.

When assessing if people are living together, people will not be excluded from the assessment because visa conditions deny benefit entitlement. The test is whether you are living together regardless of whether your partner can or cannot claim benefits. 

Maria

JKC said:

i now live alone and get ESA (support group) pip daily enhanced rate, I'm sure I qualify for SDP, I think it goes up in April 2018 to about £64, my question is, I live in two bedroom house (band A) my rent is £95pw , if I end up with £191pw with the new rates, won't it affect my housing benefit?

No, claiming SDP will not affect any housing benefit you claim.