Version: 6
Last Amended: 7 June 2024
Next Review: 31 March 2025
To be eligible for ILF Scotland funding, recipients must not have capital exceeding £35,000. This is in line with the thresholds used by Health and Social Care Partnerships (HSCP) in Scotland for residential care charging.
For those first accessing awards from 1 April 2024 this policy does not apply.
The ILF definition of capital includes:
Recipients with capital above £35,000 will not be eligible for ILF Scotland funding.
ILF Scotland disregard the capital of people claiming the following benefits:
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) conditions for receipt of these benefits is sufficient to confirm capital limit eligibility for an ILF Scotland Fund award.
ILF Scotland can disregard the value of capital set aside specifically for impending disability related purchases, which could include, for example, equipment or home adaptations. In these circumstances, ILF Scotland will arrange for one of its Assessors to visit the recipient and will ask to see evidence of the planned expenditure.
Any capital a recipient or applicant receives as a result of being awarded a Vaccine Damage payment is disregarded in full, whether held in a trust fund or not.
ILF Scotland will consider a recipient as having capital where they have purposely deprived themselves of capital in order to receive or continue to receive money from ILF Scotland.
Recipients may:
We refer to these as ‘Trust Funds’. The capital from a Trust Fund may affect someone’s eligibility for ILF Scotland funding. If relevant capital held in a trust fund exceeds £35,000, there will be no eligibility for ILF Scotland funding.
ILF Scotland will consider the implications of trust funds on ILF Scotland funding on a discretionary and case by case basis.
ILF Scotland Assessors or Specialist Caseworker can refer decisions, as required to its Management Team.
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