Welfare Rights Checklists
Our Welfare Rights Checklists are designed to help you complete new Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance claims forms, or challenge a previous decision.
Employment and Support Allowance
Benefits Briefing ESA pdf version (158 KB)
Benefits Briefing ESA Word Version (550 KB)
Help with seeing
This checklist applies to the middle rate care component of DLA, and the lower rate of Attendance Allowance.
Help with seeing (36 KB)
Help with seeing (5 KB)
The lower mobility test
This checklist applies to the lower rate of the mobility component of DLA.
Lower Mobility test (32 KB) Lower Mobility test (2 KB)
The cooking test
This checklist applies to the lower rate of the care component of DLA.
The Cooking Test (32 KB) The Cooking Test (2 KB)
Diabetes and visual impairment
This checklist covers both attention and supervision needs, and applies to the middle rate of the care component of DLA.
Diabetes and Visual Impairment (32 KB) Diabetes and Visual Impairment (3 KB)
Attention during the day
This checklist applies if you are visually impaired and have other disabilities, and need 'attention' during the day.
Attention during the day (39 KB) Attention during the day (7 KB)
Supervision during the day
This checklist applies if you are visually impaired and have other disabilities, and need 'supervision' during the day.
Supervision during the day (36 KB) Supervision during the day (5 KB)
Attention during the night
This checklist applies if you are visually impaired and have other disabilities, and need 'attention' during the night. If your only disability is visual impairment, the benefits agency are unlikely to accept that you need help during the night. However, if for example you also suffer from incontinence, then you may need 'attention' at night (in order to help you change your sheets and bed clothing). This checklist applies to DLA (middle and higher rates) and Attendance Allowance (lower and higher rates).
Attention during the night (36 KB) Attention during the night (2 KB)
Supervision at night
This checklist applies if you are visually impaired and have other disabilities, and need 'supervision' at night. Again, if your only disability is visual impairment, the benefits agency are unlikely to accept that you need help during the night. However, if for example you also suffer from epilepsy (and you get no warning of attacks), or prone to wandering at night, then you may need 'supervision' at night. This checklist applies to DLA (middle and higher rates) and Attendance Allowance (lower and higher rates).
Your Welfare Rights
We believe that visually impaired people should get all of the benefits they are entitled to. Our Welfare Rights Service aims to guide visually impaired people and their advisers through the benefits maze.
Contact an Action team for help with Welfare Rights
Find out contact details for your nearest Action for Blind People team for help with Welfare Rights.
You can contact the following Action for Blind People teams for help with Welfare Rights
