Holidays and Attendance Allowance

rockingbilly

This relates to my wife's aa award. She has just had a letter from the DWP giving details of the increase to £83.10 a week. The letter also says:

LEAVING THE COUNTRY

You must tell us if you are going to leave Great Britain for more than 4 weeks..........

Reading the Regulations it says: You can claim the following benefits if you’re going abroad for up to 13 weeks - Attendance Allowance.

So who is right 3 months or 4 weeks?

teddysmum

rockingbilly wrote: »

This relates to my wife's aa award. She has just had a letter from the DWP giving details of the increase to £83.10 a week. The letter also says:

LEAVING THE COUNTRY

You must tell us if you are going to leave Great Britain for more than 4 weeks..........

Reading the Regulations it says: You can claim the following benefits if you’re going abroad for up to 13 weeks - Attendance Allowance.

So who is right 3 months or 4 weeks?

Is this the wife who drives you on long journeys, as you are unable to manage by yourself ? Doesn't sound like a candidate for AA.

rockingbilly

teddysmum wrote: »

Is this the wife who drives you on long journeys, as you are unable to manage by yourself ? Doesn't sound like a candidate for AA.

Yes she drives me everywhere, aren't I the lucky one!!
I can't manage simply because I don't have a valid driving licence due to health and medication reasons!

Why say that she doesn't deserve Attendance allowance? She was assessed twice and on both occasions was given the highest of day & night award - now indefinitely.
As I have said before - her only problems relate to her joints.

You have made a comment but failed to give your opinion on my original question?

teddysmum

rockingbilly wrote: »

Yes she drives me everywhere, aren't I the lucky one!!
I can't manage simply because I don't have a valid driving licence due to health and medication reasons!

Why say that she doesn't deserve Attendance allowance? She was assessed twice and on both occasions was given the highest of day & night award - now indefinitely.
As I have said before - her only problems relate to her joints.

You have made a comment but failed to give your opinion on my original question?

Well just 10 minutes drive up the road, to Tesco, has my joints needing a heat pad for the next hour or so and I'm not an AA candidate.

rockingbilly

Penitent wrote: »

They don't contradict each other. You are required to tell them if you'll be out of the country for >4w (so this is a stipulation of claiming), but can receive it for up to 13 weeks.

Why? What's the point of telling them that we are having a holiday of say 6 weeks next winter if she is entitled to the benefit for up to 13 weeks whilst out of the UK - doesn't make any sense.

rockingbilly

teddysmum wrote: »

Well just 10 minutes drive up the road, to Tesco, has my joints needing a heat pad for the next hour or so and I'm not an AA candidate.

All I can say then that my wife experiences it worse than you do. Anyhow this thread isn't about why she gets AA or how - she was awarded it by the DWP fair and square.

What I want to know is why does she have to tell the DWP that she is spending over 4 weeks out of the UK when the benefit will continue to be paid correctly for a period of up to 13 weeks out of the UK?

elsien

I'm minded to wonder whether this is another fishing expedition to get disgusted of Tunbridge Wells to come over all outraged about people on benefits affording long holidays abroad? After which you can go into your usual playing the system mode?

Anyone tempted, please don't bite.

rockingbilly

The way we see it after this damn weather is that her AA will help towards the 6 week break somewhere that is warm and sunny next Jan/Feb.
When you do the maths and what you save in heating etc it works out to be just as cheap to go away than stay here.
Mind you I won't have any travel insurance so the places where we can go to is fairly limited.

rockingbilly

elsien wrote: »

I'm minded to wonder whether this is another fishing expedition to get disgusted of Tunbridge Wells to come over all outraged about people on benefits affording long holidays abroad? After which you can go into your usual playing the system mode?

Anyone tempted, please don't bite.

In which case, bring it on, just bring it on. For a start the only 'benefit' that we receive is my wife's Attendance Allowance. I worked hard, saved hard and invested wisely so I do believe that we are entitled to have that time away.

poppy12345

rockingbilly wrote: »

All I can say then that my wife experiences it worse than you do.

That just makes me so mad! How you can say that when you have no idea of the OP issues i'll never know! Why don't you just leave and not come back....rant over!

rockingbilly

poppy12345 wrote: »

That just makes me so mad! How you can say that when you have no idea of the OP issues i'll never know! Why don't you just leave and not come back....rant over!

Teddysmum wrote the following as to how they are:

Well just 10 minutes drive up the road, to Tesco, has my joints needing a heat pad for the next hour or so and I'm not an AA candidate

To which I replied that if they aren't eligible for Attendance Allowance and my wife is it stands to reason that my wife must have more care needs than they do obviously.