Severe Disability Assistance

Overview

A Severe Disability Assistance may be awarded to a person with a physical disability who is sixteen (16) years of age and over that can be engaged in a gainful occupation.

What you’ll get

The Severe Disability Assistance is paid every four (4) weeks in advance.

Please click here for a Schedule of Benefits Rates.

Eligibility

General eligibility criteria:

The applicant is sixteen (16) years and over.
An applicant can be gainfully occupied since eligibility for Severe Disability Assis.tance is not Capital Means tested. As from January 2022, the applicant is not weekly means tested. Thus both Capital and Weekly Means will not be taken into consideration
The applicant has been suffering from the disability prior to reaching the age of sixty (60) years.
A person who is already in receipt of the Severe Disability Assistance and is turning sixty (60) years of age will have the entitlement increased to the equivalent of the Age Pension rate.
The provisions of Article 90 of the Social Security Act (Cap. 318.) “Duplicate Rights” apply, wherein a beneficiary cannot be in receipt of two pensions; benefits; assistances or allowances concurrently but to the most beneficial pension; benefit; assistance or allowance.
A Medical Board will decide whether the case falls within the medical parameters for payment of this assistance. An applicant who was eligible for the Disabled Child Allowance prior to turning 16 years of age may still be examined by a medical board.