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This is to ensure the person you are applying for lives with you. This could be a copy of an award notice for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) , Child Disabled Payment (CDP) , Personal Independence Payment (PIP) or Adult Disability Payment (ADP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we can not accept these as evidence of your child or young person&rsquo;s eligibility, nor can we accept appointment letters or health and educational reports that are older than 12 months.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When submitting your grant application to Family Fund, certain documents will help us when being able to assess your eligibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4049,"parent":759,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_mixd_wp_review_post_reminders":[],"_mixd_wp_review_date":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-17848","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Types of evidence we can accept - Family Fund<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Find out what documents can and cannot be used as evidence to support your application for a grant from Family Fund.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/grants\/are-we-eligible\/supporting-documents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Types of evidence we can accept - Family Fund\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Find out what documents can and cannot be used as evidence to support your application for a grant from Family Fund.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/grants\/are-we-eligible\/supporting-documents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Family Fund\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-12T17:27:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/someone-looking-at-a-family-fund-leaflet.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/grants\/are-we-eligible\/supporting-documents\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/grants\/are-we-eligible\/supporting-documents\/\",\"name\":\"Types of evidence we can accept - Family Fund\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/familyfundprd.wpengine.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/grants\/are-we-eligible\/supporting-documents\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/grants\/are-we-eligible\/supporting-documents\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/someone-looking-at-a-family-fund-leaflet.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-28T15:31:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-12T17:27:52+00:00\",\"description\":\"Find out what documents can and cannot be used as evidence to support your application for a grant from Family Fund.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/grants\/are-we-eligible\/supporting-documents\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/grants\/are-we-eligible\/supporting-documents\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/grants\/are-we-eligible\/supporting-documents\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/someone-looking-at-a-family-fund-leaflet.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/someone-looking-at-a-family-fund-leaflet.png\",\"width\":800,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"Someone looking at a Family Fund information leaflet. 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