As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly apply for a Disabled Facilities Grant.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the Disabled Facilities Grant information on GOV.UK and your local council's housing or adaptations page, then copy the relevant application instructions into a private document.
   2. Gather the person's basic circumstances, the property and tenure details, the adaptations being considered, and any letters or recommendations from an occupational therapist or other professional.
   3. Remove NHS numbers, full dates of birth, bank details, passwords and unnecessary names from the material before pasting it into a chatbot.
   4. Paste the supplied prompt into the chatbot, replace the bracketed sections with your information, and answer its questions without asking it to guess missing facts.
   5. Compare its checklist and draft answers with the GOV.UK page and your council's current instructions, correcting every mismatch or unsupported statement.
   6. Contact the council using the details on its official website, ask which forms and evidence apply to your case, and ask whether an occupational therapy assessment is needed.
   7. Send only the council's requested information through its stated secure route, keeping a copy of the submitted form and supporting documents.

   Prompt

   Help me prepare to apply for a Disabled Facilities Grant in England. Do not decide that I am eligible, give legal advice, invent facts, or guess local council rules. Use only the current GOV.UK information and the local council information that I paste below, and clearly label anything that needs confirmation with the council. Ask me for missing information one question at a time before drafting anything.
   
   My council area: [local authority]
   Person who needs the adaptations: [brief description]
   Property and tenancy or ownership: [brief description]
   Adaptations being considered: [list]
   Relevant professional recommendations or reports: [details, with names and reference numbers removed]
   Information and documents already available: [list]
   
   After asking your questions, produce:
   1. A plain-English list of the next steps, in order.
   2. A document and information checklist, separating required, potentially useful and council-confirmation items.
   3. A short list of questions to ask the council and any occupational therapist or other professional involved.
   4. Draft factual wording for any application answers, using only the information I supplied and marking every missing fact as [NEEDS MY INFORMATION].
   5. A final privacy check identifying sensitive information I should remove before sharing the draft with anyone else.
   
   Do not include medical diagnosis or treatment advice. Tell me to contact my local council for the application process and to speak to an occupational therapist or other appropriate professional where an assessment is needed.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.