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A permanent or temporary stays in care home will affect your benefits. If you are receiving any benefits and you are shifting to care home you need to inform about this to relevant department.
Moving to care home will never affect your mobility component of you Disability living allowance, it is also not included in your income when your local trust is calculating how much you have to contribute in your care home fees. But if NHS is funding you for your care home then both the care component and the mobility component of you DLA may get affected. The below table will show the affect on your benefits when you will move to care home
| Situation | Effects on DLA and AA(Attendance allowance) |
| Your local council is helping you with your care home fees. | You will receive it for 4 week if you have entitled before moving to care home |
| Your local council is not helping you with your care home fees (self-funding). | It will continue |
| Your property is not counted as capital for first 12 weeks of your permanent stays in care home, and your local council will funding you this weeks and you will be self funning from 13th week or earlier if property sold | Will be paid for first four weeks and will again start from 13th week |
| Your local council is helping you with your care home fees on a temporary basis while you sell your assets and/or you have a 'deferred payments agreement' where you will pay your contribution to your care home fees back to your local council later. | Your local council is helping you with your care home fees on a temporary basis while you sell your assets and/or you have a 'deferred payments agreement' where you will pay your contribution to your care home fees back to your local council later. |
If you are in care home for a short period or temporary period you can continue to receive housing benefit and council tax benefit upto 52 weeks. But if you are for a trail period then these benefits will stop if period will exceed 13 weeks.
If you are moving to care home permanently and you are claiming income support or pension credit as couple now you have to claim as separate individual. This will count as income when your contribution to your care is calculated. Similarly your state pension will also not affect but will count as income while calculating your contribution to your care home fees.
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