Purpose

To seek approval of a new Housing Assistance
Policy for improving and adapting private homes within Torbay via
Disabled Facilities Grants (DFG).

Decision

That the ‘Armed
Forces’ section of the Housing Assistance Policy be amended
to read as follows (amendments shown in Bold):
 
“Armed Forces
Independence Payments (AFIP) as with the civilian equivalents, are
ignored as income as for the purposes of DFG means-test and should
be treated as receipt of the daily living component of Personal
Independence Payments at the enhanced rate. These criteria are set
by government as part of the means test criteria for the grant.
 
Due to the unique
obligation and sacrifice of danger for serving and veteran military
personnel, any lump sum payments received through military
compensation as well as military war pension
all payments made under the Armed Forces
Compensation Scheme 2005, War Disablement Pension Scheme, Service
Invaliding Pensions and Service Attributable Pension
will be disregarded as part of the Disabled Facilities Grant means
test.
 
All other aspects of
the means test conditions still apply where a client does not
receive a passporting benefit.”