Help with moving to suitable housing

[BuntyB]

Hi,

Have had a parent asking about help to move to suitable housing for herself and her two children, one with autism. She currently owns a house but it isn't big enough but cannot remortgage being on IS and CA.

 

Apart from renting and living off the equity on her house, which isn't much but enough to lose her IS, does anyone have any ideas?

[smallworld]

Hi Shona,

The disabled facilities grant is available for adapting/extending homes.There's some info on here

The means testing on this grant has recently been scrapped for children.

HTH, wac

[denise2]

We have just had a room built for our AS 11 yr old son using a disabled facilites grant. We needed to contact the children with disabilites team and get an occupational therapist to look at our needs. When she agreed we needed an extra room she looked at all the options including a council house and decided on applying for the grant. We were very lucky as most of it was taken out of our hands from then on, it took about a year from start to finish but it has made a huge difference to our family.

 

Denise 2