Principles for Attendance Allowance?

Spoonie_Turtle

Are there any official sources for Attendance Allowance that talk about reliability or thresholds for what counts etc. like for PIP, please?  All I can find is 'reasonably required' which is not much help when dealing with someone terrified of DWP.

(You guys know if I were up to thoroughly looking for it I would but I'm really not at the moment, and this is in relation to a family member.)

huckster

Looked and could not find publicly available documents as you describe. 

HillStreetBlues

I couldn't either.

whizzywoo

From what I can remember when I completed my own claim form it might be about how many times per day and or night help is needed for personal care.  And also for how long.

I don't remember seeing any specific thresholds or anything when I was researching.  Sorry.

HillStreetBlues

Have you looked at the DMG guide? https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64d659e9dd15ff000d27800c/dmgch61.pdf

Alice_Holt

From the DRH handbook:

"The attention you need must be reasonably required rather than medically required.

You may reasonably require more attention than you actually get, I.e. if the only help you get is over the telephone, you could argue that your needs would be more reasonably meet by direct help in your presence...Think about activities you manage only very slowly, with difficulty, or in an unsafe way...

The rest is whether 'he attention is reasonably required to enable you as far as reasonably possible to live a normal life' . This includes social, recreational, and cultural activities - what is reasonable depends on age, interests, and other circumstances.

R(A)2/98 (HoL.'Farey')

Spoonie_Turtle

Thank you for all the responses and effort to help .  HSB, the DMG is where it says 'reasonably required', although the explanation of that per Alice_Holt's post is what I was needing.

Incidentally from a search for that case law reference, Google showed me this page https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/how-we-can-help/benefits-information/law-pages/case-law-summaries/attendance-allowance-and
a case law summary for DLA and AA, a bit like we have at pipinfo.net and wcainfo.net
In case it's helpful for anyone else who didn't know about it