Overview
- Recipients are paid £73.90 or £110.40 each week, typically £295.60 or £441.60 every four weeks.
- Official data to the end of February 2025 shows 36% of claimants, or 563,746 people, have awards lasting five years or longer.
- Arthritis is the most common cited condition with 508,964 claimants, and 47% of those awards run for five years or more.
- Award length generally reflects prognosis, with longer durations for lifelong or degenerative conditions and shorter ones where improvement is expected.
- Attendance Allowance is non-means-tested and tax-free, does not affect the State Pension, can increase means-tested support, requires a detailed claim form with charity help available, and in Scotland applicants must use Pension Age Disability Payment.