Apply for Attendance Allowance
Attendance Allowance is a benefit for people aged 65 or over who have an illness or disability and need help with personal care.
How to use this service
Use the links below to claim Attendance Allowance online on the Department for Social Development website, download and complete a claim form or contact the Social Security Agency for a claim form.
Claim Online
You can claim Attendance Allowance online.
Download a form
AA1A -Help for people over the age of 65 with a disability
- Attendance Allowance claim form AA1A (PDF 89KB)
- Attendance Allowance claim form notes (PDF 44KB)
- Attendance Allowance Flyer (PDF 21KB)
- Help with PDF files
You make a claim by printing out a claim form and filling it in. When you have filled in the form you can either:
- post it to the office whose details are shown on the form, or
- hand it in at your nearest Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office
- Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)
Important: The date the claim form is received in a Social Security Agency office is the date we can consider payment from - not the date you downloaded the claim form.
Ask for a form
You can get Attendance Allowance forms from the Social Security Agency. Contact one of their offices.
- Disability and Carers Service (contacts section)
- Benefit Enquiry Line (contacts section)
- Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)
- Benefit Shop Castle Court (contacts section)
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