DWP will pay £100 a week benefit for these 56 medical conditions

People with common medical conditions could be in line to receive £100 every week from The Department for Work and Pensions – if claimants meet a certain criteria.

According to the DWP, Attendance Allowance – which can pay almost £5,300 worth of support a year – remains significantly underclaimed. At present, around 1.6m are claiming it but many more people also may be eligible, reports The Express.

Attendance Allowance is extra money people can receive if they have a long-term physical or mental condition or a disability. It doesn’t matter what your condition is – what matters is how it affects you.

If you have reached State Pension age and need help with personal care, or support to check that you are managing, then you may be eligible. The allowance is paid at two different rates and how much you get depends on the level of care you need because of your disability.

You could get the lower rate of £68.10 or higher rate of £101.75 a week to help with personal support if you are physically or mentally disabled and State Pension age or older. It does not cover mobility needs.

The list of 56 conditions that can qualify for Attendance Allowance include:

• Arthritis
• Spondylosis
• Back Pain – other/precise diagnosis not specified
• Disease of the muscles, bones or joints
• Trauma to limbs
• Blindness
• Deafness
• Heart disease
• Chest disease
• Asthma
• Cystic fibrosis
• Cerebrovascular disease
• Peripheral vascular disease
• Epilepsy
• Neurological diseases
• Multiple sclerosis
• Parkinson’s disease
• Motor neurone disease
• Chronic pain syndromes
• Diabetes mellitus
• Metabolic disease
• Traumatic paraplegia/tetraplegia
• Major trauma other than traumatic paraplegia/tetraplegia
• Learning difficulties
• Psychosis
• Psychoneurosis
• Personality disorder
• Dementia
• Behavioural disorder
• Alcohol and drug abuse
• Hyperkinetic syndrome

• Renal disorders
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Bowel and stomach disease
• Blood disorders
• Haemophilia
• Multi-system disorders
• Multiple allergy syndrome
• Skin disease
• Malignant disease
• Severely mentally impaired
• Double amputee
• Deaf/blind
• Haemodialysis
• Frailty
• Total parenteral autrition
• AIDS
• Infectious diseases: Viral disease – coronavirus Covid-19
• Infectious diseases: Viral disease – precise diagnosis not specified
• Infectious diseases: Bacterial disease – tuberculosis
• Infectious diseases: Bacterial disease – precise diagnosis not specified
• Infectious diseases: Protozoal disease – malaria
• Infectious diseases: Protozoal disease – other/precise diagnosis not specified
• Infectious diseases – other/precise diagnosis not specified
• Cognitive disorder – other/precise diagnosis not specified
• Terminally ill

To claim, people need to fill out an Attendance Allowance form, which can be accessed by either calling the helpline on 0800 731 0122 or downloading it from the Government website, here.