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Financial help for disabled students

Sources of extra financial help for disabled students include:

These are paid on top of the standard student finance package.

Disabled Students' Allowances

Disabled Students' Allowances are grants to help with the extra costs a student may face as the direct result of an impairment, health condition or specific learning difficulty.

The amount you can get isn't affected by your household income, and the allowances do not have to be repaid.

• Disabled Students' Allowances - introduction

Access to Learning Fund

If you're in financial difficulty, you may be able to claim additional financial help through the Access to Learning Fund.

• Access to Learning Fund (general education and learning section)

Disability Living Allowance

You may be able to claim Disability Living Allowance over and above Disabled Students' Allowances and other forms of student finance.

• Disability Living Allowance

Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit

Employment and Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit are benefits for people with an illness or disability that affects their ability to work.

If you already claim one of these benefits, you may be able to carry on receiving it as a student.

You can get more information about claiming benefits while studying from Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities.

• Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities Opens new window
• Employment and Support Allowance
• Incapacity Benefit

Other forms of student finance

Financial help aimed at disabled students is paid on top of of the standard student finance package.

See 'Student finance' to find out what other types of help you could get as a student – including information on Student Loans, grants and bursaries.

• Student finance (general education and learning section)