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When an individual in the protected cohort both:

• leaves one country in the EEA or Switzerland for another; and
• does not take up employment in that new country,

any non-contributory benefits such as Scottish Adult DLA should continue to be paid, assuming no relevant change in circumstances occurs and subject to them meeting all of the other eligibility criteria. This is regardless of the rules on the competent state.

Unless temporary absence rules or an exception applies (see Members of the armed forces and civil servants) (see Mariners, aircraft workers and continental shelf workers) Scottish Adult DLA awards should always be ended when:

• an individual who is not in the ‘protected cohort’ leaves Scotland to live somewhere other than the Republic of Ireland or Gibraltar; or
• an individual in the ‘protected cohort’ leaves Scotland for somewhere outside of the EEA, Switzerland, or Gibraltar.