Housing grants

Disabled facilities grant

A disabled facilities grant helps provide disabled adaptations in your home.

The minimum grant available is £1000 and the maximum grant available is £30,000.

The Disabled Facilities Grant is means tested (financial assessment) on the person with the disability and any spouse or partner. In the case of a child there is no means test.

Applicants receiving the following benefits will not need to be means tested:

• Income Support
• Income-related Employment Support Allowance
• Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
• Universal Credit
• Guaranteed Pension Credit
• Housing Benefit
• Working Tax Credit / Child Tax Credit with assessed income less than £15,050

An occupational therapy assessment is required to determine the adaptations required.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a Disabled Facilities Grant the applicant must:

• Be aged 18 or over on the date of application (If the person with a disability is a child the applicant should normally be the parent or legal guardian)
• Be either the owner of the dwelling or be a tenant (including licensees) and be able to provide an Owner's Certificate or Tenant's Certificate. This will not necessarily be the disabled person for whom the works are required. A landlord may apply on behalf of a disabled tenant
• Satisfy a means test as prescribed by the Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996 (as amended), if the applicant is the disabled person, unless the application is being made on behalf of a child
• The adaptation must be for the benefit of a person who is 'disabled' within the criteria in section 100 of the Housing (Grants, Construction and Regeneration) Act 1996.

The grant is available throughout North Northamptonshire.

Apply

Please email [email protected] and a member of our team will get in contact.

Alternatively, phone us on 0300 126 3000 and speak to our Private Sector Housing team.

Last updated 29 April 2024