Frequently Asked Questions

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How should War Pensions be treated?

Income from war pensions

Do not enter the c. £80/week payments made to special war widows under a number of enactments from April 1990. (These are usually referred to as "pre-1973" War Widows.) Such payments are wholly ignored as income.

Do not enter any payment of War Pensioners Mobility Supplement (equivalent to the mobility element of DLA/PIP) which is also disregarded.

Otherwise, enter any:

• war disablement or war widow's pension or analogous compensation
• an analogous pension under the social security scheme of another country
• a pension from the Federal Republic of Germany or Austria to the victims of Nazi persecution.

Where Constant Attendance Allowance is in receipt

If a relevant person is in receipt of Constant Attendance Allowance then the following elements of their war pension should be disregarded as income (not entered):

• Standard percentage-based war disablement pension
• Constant attendance allowance
• Exceptionally severe disablement allowance
• Severe disablement occupational allowance
• Comforts allowance

If that person (in receipt of Constant Attendance Allowance) receives any of the following, however, then these should be entered here as income:

• Clothing Allowance
• Unemployability Allowance
• Invalidity Allowance
• Allowance for lowered standard of occupation
• Age allowance
• Treatment allowance

Where Constant Attendance Allowance is not in receipt

If a war pensioner is not in receipt of Constant Attendance Allowance, then enter here any:

• Standard percentage-based war disablement pension
• Comforts allowance
• Clothing Allowance
• Unemployability Allowance
• Invalidity Allowance
• Allowance for lowered standard of occupation
• Age allowance
• Treatment allowance

The first £10 of any such payment(s) will be ignored, although the most that can be ignored of these payments and of payments from voluntary or charitable bodies is £20 in total.

Housing Renewal Grant Regs 96 Sched 3 paras 7, 8, 13 & 40