Attendance Allowance update: See how now new DWP boost will affect you | Personal Finance | Finance [Video]

Martin Lewis gives details on claiming attendance allowance

Older people claiming Attendance Allowance are set for a significant income boost from next week.

The benefit, which helps support the extra daily living costs of having a physical or mental health condition, disability or long-term illness, will rise by 6.7 percent.

Currently some 1.5m older people claim it, however many people miss out because they are unaware that they are eligible.

On top of the rise in Attendance Allowance, older people are also about to benefit from an 8.5 percent rise in both the New and Basic State Pensions as part of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) annual uprating.

While Attendance Allowance and the State Pension are paid separately, the combined uprating means that someone in receipt of the full New State Pension and the higher rate of Attendance Allowance will be due £1,319 every four weeks.

Someone in receipt of the maximum Basic State Pension is set to …