Attendance Allowance and holidays abroad

dippy3103

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I'm surprised at some of the answers as you can apply for and receive AA even when you live abroad in another EU country. Is just visiting different?

https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance/eligibility


This link says you have to be in the uk when you apply and have lived here at least two of the previous 3 years.

The safest thing to do is obtain advice from the DWP.

missbiggles1

dippy3103 wrote: »

https://www.gov.uk/attendance-allowance/eligibility


This link says you have to be in the uk when you apply and have lived here at least two of the previous 3 years.

The safest thing to do is obtain advice from the DWP.

And this link says that you can either export AA or claim it from another EU country. As I know from personal experience.

https://www.gov.uk/claim-benefits-abroad/illness-injury-and-disability-benefits

However, there may be a grey area between living abroad and visiting for over 13 weeks which may not be covered - which was why I asked.

brodev

I phoned AA today and they asked immediately for name and national insurance number. I gave them my name and said I didn't know NI No. as I was a friend. They were not over helpful. I was told that all trips abroad counted towards the total of 13 weeks even when less than 28 days and as I said earlier she can go abroad for a total of only 13 weeks in any rolling 12 month period
However I have not been able to find anything online that confirms this and previous experience with DWP tells me that they do not always get it right

bspm

Don't tell them.....simples

dippy3103

bspm wrote: »

Don't tell them.....simples

Which is an offence..

bspm

dippy3103 wrote: »

Which is an offence..

And your point is?

She isn't leaving the country for good, she is coming back.

The poster has stated that she isn't leaving for more than 13 weeks at a time, I can't find anything anywhere that states anything about a 12 month rolling period.

If I count the weeks I have been out of the country from September last year to September this year it will be more than 13 weeks, I am in receipt of PIP, I told them once last year that I was going on holiday and the call handler was most disinterested, asked if I was going for more than 28 days, I told her no, i'm going for 21 days, she said ok I will make a record of that but you don't have to tell us.

Darksparkle

Why not just go away for 12 weeks and 6 days and not worry about it?

bspm

Darksparkle wrote: »

Why not just go away for 12 weeks and 6 days and not worry about it?

Exactly! I couldn't have put it better myself!

FBaby

She isn't leaving the country for good, she is coming back.

Which is irrelevant to the issue.

Of course she can knowingly ignore the rules, then when she is reported and investigated, and then come back here asking advice on how to pretend they didn't know and hope that she doesn't face going to jail.

Posts like this shows is an interesting one when it comes to posters debating about the true reality of fraud rather than recorded fraud.

missbiggles1

bspm wrote: »

And your point is?

She isn't leaving the country for good, she is coming back.

The poster has stated that she isn't leaving for more than 13 weeks at a time, I can't find anything anywhere that states anything about a 12 month rolling period.

If I count the weeks I have been out of the country from September last year to September this year it will be more than 13 weeks, I am in receipt of PIP, I told them once last year that I was going on holiday and the call handler was most disinterested, asked if I was going for more than 28 days, I told her no, i'm going for 21 days, she said ok I will make a record of that but you don't have to tell us.

That's actually the problem. If you were leaving for good there wouldn't be any difficulty as AA is an exportable benefit.

NB

PIP (apart from the mobility component) is also an exportable benefit, as is/was DLA care. (As I'm sure you know - info for the benefit of others.)