Ending the client’s Disability Living Allowance award

When a case completes the transfer process, the client’s entitlement to Disability Living Allowance will usually cease on the day that their entitlement to Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance begins (Scottish Adult DLA Regs, Schedule 1, Part 2, Para 8(1)(a)). However, where the client’s Disability Living Allowance award is backdated because they meet the special rules for terminal illness, the client’s entitlement to Disability Living Allowance ceases on the day the client’s Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance would have begun had the award not been backdated (Scottish Adult DLA Regs, Schedule 1, Part 2, Para 8(1)(c)). Additionally, if the client was paid it one week in advance and 3 weeks in arrears, their entitlement to Disability Living Allowance will end on the date one week after the date their entitlement to Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance begins (Scottish Adult DLA Regs, Schedule 1, Part 2, Para (8)(1)(b)).