If you are being funded to have support then you will have a financial assessment from someone in your Local Authority. They will look at your incomings and outgoings and you may have to spend some of your PIP, DLA, or savings on your support i.e. make Personal Contributions towards your support costs. If you are in receipt of DLA or PIP, personal support from Real Lives is something that benefit can be used for – something that supports your ‘disability’.

Real Lives provides personal support to people in their homes and communities. It is funded by social or health care budgets or by the individual privately. To find out more about what support Real Lives can provide, please visit our Services page.