Could someone tell me please the time the discount should be required from? The date of the application or the date of the Attendance Allowance award? Thanks.
Hi
Are you thinking about carer or severe mental impairment status discount?
I do not know how many people are in your household and that is considered when looking at your application, so what I've written below is assuming there are sufficient people disregarded to allow a discount to be paid.
Carer status discount would be awarded from the date higher rate attendance allowance was paid.
Severe mental impairment status discount requires two things to be in place, firstly a relevant benefit like attendance allowance and secondly a certificate completed by the GP or consultant of the person for whom the application is being made.
The certificate asks the GP or consultant to state a date from which the individual should be considered to be severely mentally impaired.
Status discount is awarded from the date both the criteria have been met eg if the GP stated X was severely mentally impaired from 1st January 2015, but attendance allowance was not paid until 1st April 2015 the discount would start from 1st April 2015 as it was the first date on which both criteria were met.
Hope this helps.
Lavender45