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If you're disabled, you may be able to get a grant to help adapt your home.
The Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) helps disabled individuals make essential changes to their homes, making it safer and easier to get around and manage everyday tasks. Adapting your home can restore or enable independent living, privacy, confidence and dignity for you and your family.
A mandatory DFG is limited to a maximum of £30,000. It is a means-tested grant to help with the costs in adapting your home to allow access to normal household facilities and remain living independently.
There is no means test for eligible works up to £30,000 if:
- the adaptation is for a child (under-19)
- you receive an income-related benefit
Adaptations might include:
- taking a bath out and installing a level access shower
- installing a stair-lift or through floor lift to help you access facilities in your house
- widening doorways and putting in ramps.
Who can apply for a Disabled Facilities Grant
You can apply for a DFG if you're:
- an owner, tenant or landlord applying on behalf of a tenant
- a disabled person intending to live in the property for at least five years (or a shorter period based on health circumstances)
The disability must be long-term and can be due to:
- physical illness or injury
- major sight, hearing, speech, or mental health problems
- learning disabilities
How to apply for a Disabled Facilities Grant
You’ll need an assessment by a suitably trained professional, such as a Trusted Assessor or Occupational Therapist.
Call 0300 131 2 131 to arrange an assessment.
The assessor will visit your home to assess your needs and the Home Improvement Agency will be told about any recommended adaptations. They will contact you to see if you are eligible for a DFG and to check that the recommended adaptation can be made to your home.
If you are eligible, the grant will only fund adaptations that are assessed as necessary and appropriate and are the most cost-effective option to let you to continue to live independently. The Home Improvement Agency can help to guide you through the whole process.