{"id":168201,"date":"2025-06-08T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168201\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T18:04:09","slug":"martin-lewis-says-state-pensioners-get-extra-6000-with-these-four-conditions-personal-finance-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168201\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis says state pensioners get extra \u00a36,000 with these four conditions | Personal Finance | Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Money expert Martin Lewis says state pensioners can get extra money from the Department of Work and Pensions if they meet one of four or more conditions. Speaking on The Martin Lewis Money Show Live on a previous series on ITV1 and ITVX, the financial guru urged pensioners who are \u2018ill or disabled\u2019 to make sure they are getting an underclaimed benefit called Attendance Allowance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The DWP<\/a> benefit currently gives you up to \u00a3110.40 per week – and it\u2019s not means-tested. That means that regardless of how much income you have, how much you have in savings or what else you own, you will still be eligible for the full benefit worth up to about nearly \u00a36,000 a year in cash payments from the DWP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Martin told his ITV viewers: \u201cThis is for disabled or ill people of state pension<\/a> age, we need to collectively work together to spread word on this one.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost importantly, Attendance Allowance<\/a> is not means tested, they do not look at your means or how much money you\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re either entitled to it or not entitled to it regardless of finances.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is for those who need help with daily living. Both mental and physical conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those who are already on Personal Independence Payments or Disability Living Allowance, you get more, you can\u2019t have both, you don\u2019t wanna claim this. This is for everyone else.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo let\u2019s look at the amounts. If you need help during the day or in the night, but not both, is the lower rate…so just under \u00a34,000 a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you need help during the day and at night, that\u2019s the higher rate… just under \u00a36,000 a year.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow to be eligible for Attendance Allowance<\/a>, you must have needed help for six consecutive months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is crucially important. You must have NEEDED help, not have got help. There are many people out there who need help but haven\u2019t got help, which is why Attendance Allowance<\/a> is there.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it is about the need, not the actuality of what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the episode went out, the amount has been increased for inflation and is now worth \u00a3110.40 per week, and the lower rate is \u00a373.90 per week.<\/p>\n

Martin then explained that to be eligible, there is a precedent set in law which defines the kind of help that is likely to warrant claiming the benefit and result in you being paid the money.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWhat defines help? Well the first one is help with daily living, and a famous old judge\u2026 in 1981 defined this and it still fits for today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is help with bodily functions including breathing, hearing, seeing, eating, drinking, walking, sitting, sleeping, getting in or out of bed, dressing, undressing, eliminating waste products and the like.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of which an ordinary person who is not suffering from any disabilities does for himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the definition of help which is needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see the broad range of people who this would impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin then listed four conditions which would be likely to qualify, adding: \u201cThis is common for people with Parkinson\u2019s, or physical disabilities, dementia or terminal illness and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can apply on someone else\u2019s behalf as long as they are capable of understanding or you can sign it for them if you have Power of Attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Money expert Martin Lewis says state pensioners can get extra money from the Department of Work and Pensions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[3753,51,474,67687,3024,1059,2499,1786,14666,70289,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-168201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-attendance-allowance","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-itv1","12":"tag-itvx","13":"tag-martin-lewis","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-state-pension","16":"tag-state-pensioners","17":"tag-the-martin-lewis-money-show-live","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}