Tax and benefits checklist for disabled people

We thought that a checklist of tax-related advantages might be helpful. You can click on the links below to find out more about each topic. Some of the topics will take you to other, normally Government, websites.

Where you work

• Access to work
• Disability tax reliefs and exemptions
• Working tax credit disability element

Where you live

• Council tax reductions
• VAT relief on changes to your home

When you buy

• VAT and import duty reliefs on certain goods and adaptations for disabled people

Special tax-free income

• Attendance allowance
• Compensation, damages and interest for personal injuries
• Constant attendance allowance
• Disability living allowance
• Disablement pension
• Incapacity benefit (starting pre 12 April 1995)
• Income-based employment and support allowance
• Income support (including disability premiums)
• Certain insurance benefits paid to a person who is sick or disabled
• Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
• Pension credit
• Severe disablement allowance
• Thalidomide Trust payments
• Vaccine damage lump sums
• Wounds and disability pensions from the armed forces

Tax allowances

• Blind person’s allowance