Disabled Facilities Grants - Who Can Apply?

Information about who can apply for Disabled Facilities Grants (DFGs). Grants are available to assist disabled people in Eastbourne to adapt their home, to enable them to live as independently as possible.

The grants are means tested (based on your income) and funding is available for those adaptations costing more than £1,000 and less than £30,000.

Owner-occupiers, landlords and a wide range of tenants and licensees can apply for a DFG. The grant must be for a person who is registered, or could be registered, as a disabled person.

The disability can be caused by physical illness or injury, a major sight, hearing, speech, or mental-health problem, or a learning disability.

You can apply if you are the disabled person, the landlord of a disabled person, or someone living with a disabled person.

If you live in council housing or your landlord is a housing association, you may be able to ask your landlord to carry out the adaptation work.