Disabled Persons Trust

A Disabled Persons Trust is a trust which can be created during a lifetime or on death. This type of trust aims to assist disabled persons without prejudicing any rights or benefits that person receives from the government or local authorities.

Sometimes a disabled person may be entitled to benefits that are means-tested. This means that if that person was to inherit a sum of money over a certain threshold, then those benefits would stop. In the case of a disabled beneficiary, these benefits may not necessarily be cash and could be hugely disruptive for the beneficiary to lose.

A disabled persons trust is a very specialised type of trust which can have negative tax implications if not correctly entered into.

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What other types of trust are available?

There are numerous types of trust available, the most common types are: