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The end of the Attendance Allowance award
The person’s entitlement to Attendance Allowance will usually stop on the date their entitlement to PADP begins. However, there are some exceptions to this:
- If the person is moving from a 3+1 payment cycle to a four-weekly payment cycle, there will be a week where the two benefits overlap, and the Attendance Allowance award will stop one week after the PADP entitlement begins.
- If the person’s PADP entitlement has been backdated either because they have met the special rules for terminal illness (see Backdating – SRTI section), or because of a scheduled review occurring immediately after case transfer - see Backdating – Scheduled Review section, the end date for their Attendance Allowance award will be the date their PADP would have begun, if it hadn’t been backdated (PADP regs, Sch 1, Part 3, Para 10)
Example – moving from a 3+1 payment cycle to four-weekly
Marion is 77 years old and has been receiving Attendance Allowance from DWP on a cycle that pays benefit three weeks in arrears and one week in advance. When her case transfers to Social Security Scotland, she will start to be paid Pension Age Disability Payment four-weekly in arrears. To avoid Marion having to wait 5 weeks between payment dates when her AA stops and PADP begins, her entitlement to PADP will begin one week before her AA award ends. For that one week, she will be entitled to receive both AA and PADP for the same period. Her first payment of PADP will be paid on the day she would normally expect to receive her benefit payment, and subsequent payments will be every four weeks after that.
The rules which usually prevent a person from being entitled to Attendance Allowance and PADP at the same time, do not apply in these circumstances (PADP regs, Sch 1, Part 3, Para 10 (2) and PADP regs, Sch 1, Part 3, Para 11(4)).
Example: End of Attendance Allowance award - PADP is backdated
Julius is 78 and his Attendance Allowance award is transferred to Pension Age Disability Payment. He receives a determination of entitlement to PADP on 17 June 2025. This is also the date his Attendance Allowance entitlement ends. Before the transfer completed we received information that Julius was terminally ill, but the DWP did not believe he fell under their rules. At the point of transfer, the case manager decides Julius has met our definition of SRTI, so the determination begins entitlement to PADP from the date of clinical judgement, 30 December 2024. Julius’ end date for his Attendance Allowance award remains 17 June 2025. Julius’ PADP from 30/12/24 to 17/06/25 will be reduced by the amount of Attendance Allowance he has already received for the same period.