Payment cycles

Payment frequency of PADP for individuals transferring will remain at the same frequency as they received their Attendance Allowance, except where the individual meets the special rules for terminal illness for the first time:

• where an individual received their Attendance Allowance every 4 weeks, they will continue to receive their Pension Age Disability Payment every 4 weeks
• where an individual received their Attendance Allowance weekly in advance, they will continue to receive their Pension Age Disability Payment weekly in advance
• an individual who has newly reported, and meets the conditions for, the special rules for terminal illness (SRTI) will move from their previous payment frequency for Attendance Allowance and be paid PADP weekly in advance.

People whose Attendance Allowance award was paid on a ‘3+1’ payment cycle (3 weeks in arrears and 1 in advance) will receive a 4 week payment cycle in PADP. Their PADP award will start one week before their Attendance Allowance ends so that their first payment of PADP is made at the time they would usually expect their next Attendance Allowance payment (PADP Regs, Sch 1, Part 3, para 10(1)(b) and (2)). This means that for one week, they receive PADP and Attendance Allowance for the same period. The PADP they receive for this period is not reduced by the amount of Attendance Allowance they received for the same period.