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Types of costs
Disability Allowance only covers certain types of costs.
For more information see:
- Alternative treatment
- Ambulance fees and subscriptions
- Authorised consumables
- Clothing
- Counselling
- Day care for the elderly disabled
- Gardening, lawns and outside window cleaning
- Gym and swimming pool fees
- Medical alarms
- Medical fees
- Nicotine replacement products
- Pharmaceutical charges
- Power, gas and heating
- Private paying patients
- Rental equipment
- Residential care services
- Special foods
- Telephone
- Transport - counselling
- Transport - disability
- Transport - personal health
- Vitamins supplements herbal remedies and minerals
Note if a client has an additional cost that is not one of the types of costs stated above, they usually cannot be paid Disability Allowance. Call Helpline for advice.
