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The Big Changes to Benefits- an easy read guide on the main benefit changes

A briefing on the benefit cap that shows the impact on families with disabled adults living in the family home

This fact sheet explains how some tenancies tenancies are 'exempt' or 'excluded' from the ordinary rules that apply to calculating how much Housing Benefit can be paid in private sector tenancies.

This page is a briefing about the Bedroom Tax and how it may affect people with learning disabilities

This fact sheet outlines the limitations and possibilities in renting to a relative.

KIL32

A fact sheet that tells you about buying a place that you let to a disabled person.

My Home Ownership Service for disabled people and their families

This fact sheet gives detail about renting from private landlords.

A briefing about how Universal Credit will replace current means-tested benefits from April 2013.

Examples of how welfare reform will impact on the income of people with learning disabilities.

Facts about renting from someone who owns a property - a private landlord.

An overview of Types of Tenancy Agreements

This factsheet explains low cost home ownership options

This factsheet describes how a disabled person can use Support for Mortgage Interest to buy a property.

This fact sheet describes shared ownership - including the option of the family funding a share.

This page tells you about five ways of paying for housing.

Basic facts about how a family member can buy or build a property and rent it to a family member.

This fact sheet gives an overview of the different ways of buying a place outright.

This fact sheet tells you about ways of leaving money or property to a relative.

This fact sheet tells you about renting from the council or a registered social landlord (housing association).

This Guide is written primarily for staff working with people with learning disabilities and with their families and support networks. We assume some knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

A fact sheet that describes putting money into a trust - a long-term, secure financial provision for a relative.

This fact sheet considers some of the tax implications when you set up a Discretionary Trust.

This page tells you about KeyRing support networks.

Basic facts about where to get help with care and support.

H&SA Testimonials

Full text of claim for judicial review of the decision by the Minister for Disabled People made on 6 March 2014 to close the Independent Living Fund (“ILF”) with effect from 30 June 2015, and to transfer funding to the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales, and to local authorities in England. The Claimants are severely disabled people who are current users of the ILF.

A basic facts page about how you can buy a part of the place you live.

This fact sheet describes how people can live in their own place in an ordinary area and be part of a support network.

An overview of Deputyship and Lasting Power of Attorney

This fact sheet describes schemes set up to house disabled people in a supportive community.

This fact sheet tells you about residential care - accommodation and support shared with other people.

This fact sheet tells you about a disabled person's right to stay in a property - rented owned - as their family gets older.

Basic facts about having your own flat where other people also have their own place.

A basic facts page about renting social housing - a place owned by the council or a housing association.

A fact sheet describing the ways to get a house.

A fact sheet about housing with support - mainly for older people.

This fact sheet describes a kind of housing where people have their own room in a shared house and get staff support.