Community care grant

Community care grant:

The community care grant helps you to cope with special difficulties. We will normally make awards by giving goods such as

• removal expenses
• bedding and clothing
• storage charges or connection charges
• furniture such as a sofa, armchair or bed
• household equipment such as a cooker or fridge.

Where this is not possible, we may make cash payments that are tax free and do not have to be paid back.

Eligibility:

Apply if you are a

• family under exceptional pressure
• person following a period of care or homelessness
• person living independently where there's a risk of care or homelessness
• person meeting additional costs associated with looking after someone on temporary release from prison or a young offenders' institution.

We may not award a community care grant if you or your partner are

• below pension age with savings over £700
• above pension age with savings over £1,200.

We aim to make a decision on your Community Care Grant application within 15 working days. We will contact you if we need further information.