About SSAFA

Millions of people are eligible for support from SSAFA Forces Help  

Our services reflect the financial, practical and emotional issues people face today and they are freely available to virtually everybody with a Service connection. Some are more appropriate for those currently serving, some for those who have served and there are those which apply to everybody. But whatever your status, you can be certain that we will treat your enquiry as confidential and ensure that you are always treated with dignity and respect.



Eligibility

We help:

  • Members and former members of the Armed Forces, including the Volunteer Reserve Forces and Nursing Services, and their wives, former wives,  husbands, former husbands, families, widows, widowers, children and other dependants.
  • Officers and adult instructors of the Cadet Forces who have completed one year's satisfactory service, both current and former, and their dependants.
  • Disabled current and former cadets whose disability was due to service in the Cadet Forces.
  • Members and former members of the Mercantile Marine and their dependants (including those who served on operations in Korea, Suez, the Falkland I   Islands and the Gulf.)
  • Members and former members of the Association's Professional Nursing and Welfare Service.
  • UK citizens, currently stationed overseas in Service establishments and having the status of being part of the Armed Forces.
  • If you are think you are eligible contact us now – Home page for details.
  • Dependants
  • The definition of dependants is persons who are wholly or in part dependent on the person on whom eligibility is based. This includes civil partners under the terms of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and partners who are not spouses in which case there shall have been one year's residency together, or less in the case of death, and where a stable relationship and dependency can be demonstrated.
  • Children are defined as a son or daughter (under the age of 18 years) of the person on whom eligibility is based or a son or daughter (over the age of 18 years but in full time education). Eligibility also includes sons or daughters with a physical or mental disability and being dependent on the person on whom eligibility is based.