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Social Security Benefits: Overseas Residence

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 15 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 15 December 2008, Official Report, column 420W, on social security benefits: overseas residence, how many of the 1,700 requests for payment of (a) the core component of disability living allowance, (b) attendance allowance and (c) carer’s allowance from those who had previously lived in the UK and are now living in another EEA state or Switzerland have been granted. (245824)

As explained in my written answer of 15 December 2008, Official Report, column 420W, we are still considering the implications of the European Court’s decision on paying disability living allowance, attendance allowance and carer’s allowance to people who claim from another EEA state or Switzerland. We will publish the entitlement criteria on the Directgov website as soon as the details have been finalised. As a result, we are not yet in a position to make decisions on individual awards for these customers.