Legal detention and short-term assistance

Short-term assistance is a payment available to individuals challenging a determination on an ongoing award of assistance. This includes re-determinations and appeals.

The value of short-term assistance is the difference between the value of assistance before the determination and the current rate. Payment of short-term assistance lasts for the duration of the re-determination or appeal.

• An individual whose daily living or mobility component payments have been reduced to £nil because they are in legal detention is not entitled to short-term assistance (ADP regs, par 1(6), part 1, schedule 2).