Eligibility for new applications for individuals older than the relevant age to receive ADP

An individual who is over the relevant age is eligible to receive Adult Disability Payment (ADP) of either or both components, if they were already in receipt of a previous award on the day before they reached the relevant age. (ADP regs, reg. 24(a))

If a new application for ADP is received after a person has reached the relevant age, then they may still be able to be eligible for ADP if they have had a previous award which ended no more than a year before the day their new application is made. (ADP regs, reg.23 (1) (b))

(Link to ADP DMG after an interval chapter)

Entitlement under a new application

Entitlement under a new application in these circumstances has to result because of the same physical/mental condition(s) that the previous award made, or a new physical/mental condition(s) which developed because of the condition(s) that the previous award made. (ADP regs, reg. 23(1)(d))

Example: a new application from an individual over the relevant age who had previously had an ADP award

Application form

Caroline is over the relevant age and applies for ADP in September 2022. She had a previous award of PIP, which ended in June 2021.

Case manager’s decision

Caroline is not entitled to ADP because she is the relevant age, and her previous award ended over a year before her new application was submitted.