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If you live abroad can you claim disability allowance in the UK please advise . thank you. C. Campion
You can claim Attendance Allowance and Disability Living Allowance (care component) for up to 26 weeks - possibly longer if you’re going abroad for medical treatment.
You can carry on claiming Carer’s Allowance if you take up to 4 weeks holiday out of a 26-week period.
Tell the office that deals with your benefit that you’ll be away.
Check it out. gov.uk/claiming-benefit...
But on the other hand, if you live abroad on a permanent basis see gov.uk/claiming-benefits-mo...
thank you for your answers i will check it all out. Thanks again.
Short answer in no. And why should you expect it if you do not live in the UK?
Because Derrylynne the person has worked and paid taxes all their lives. Now they need help. They may live in Malta for health reasons. Cold damp England is not good for some chronic conditions.
When perfectly healthy people never work and never contribute to taxes they always get benefits in UK. The more children they have the more benefits they get.
Living in UK should not be a requirement when you get sick if you paid Into the system your whole life. Rather limit the help for healthy people who don't work and have no intention of working. Especially if they keep having more and more children!
sadly it is. DLA is not paid if you live abroad. Or other state benifits. A pensioner can get their state pension paid in Malta for instance. But it will be frozen.
Hi
To claim DLA you have to meet the residence test - see the following link for more information every disabilityrightsuk.org/f23.htm
Generally speaking you need to be living in the UK.
I hope this helps.
Jo
Thank you Jo i won't be entitled than i live in Malta thank you very much.Have worked and paid stamps/tax and not entitled because we live outside the UK it does not seem fair. Take Care.
derrylynne Why Not i have lived in the UK paid my taxes and stamps and decided to get out of the UK and the Mess the UK is in, and live in a country where crime does not exit that's why. Hope this satisfy you reply.Oh by the way I am British.
I don't make the rules Hotspot. Ask the government not me.
As I already mentioned, see - gov.uk/claiming-benefits-mo... - for the very basic info. It says:
If you’re going abroad permanently to another EEA country or Switzerland
You may get Disability Living Allowance (care component), Attendance Allowance or Carer’s Allowance as appropriate if you or a family member are eligible and:
- work in the UK or pay National Insurance in the UK because of work
- have paid enough National Insurance to qualify for contribution-based benefits
- are getting State Pension, Industrial Injuries Benefit, contribution-based ESA or bereavement benefits
If you are already living in another EEA country or Switzerland you don’t need to have claimed in the UK before you go. But you must have a ‘genuine link with the UK social security system’, eg you’ve lived and/or worked in the UK.
Contact the exportability team at the Pension, Disability and Carers service before you move abroad or if you want to claim from another EEA state or Switzerland.
In a nutshell, there are some benefits that CAN be paid when living in a EEA country. The list of these is at - dwp.gov.uk/international/so... - and Malta is included.
I would think that you already had to be in receipt of the benefit before leaving the country, I'm not sure if new claims can be made in that respect.
Cake and eat it if you ask me, come back and use the hospitals wanting money sent out of our country it is hard to understand why it should be only the good bits of this country that will be taken. If it is so wonderful in another country they will look after you and it will be a clean break with what is left behind.
He was a tax payer for years!
Dear Gordon thank you for all your info i will look into it as you can see some people on this site are anti why should Malta pay me anything I have NOT paid any contributions but I have in England and so has my husband and we are bristish, note greynote . It is wonderful in another country we have a better life than you dear just sitting in your arm chair day in and day out we are loving the sunshine. Its not the british you should be having a go at but others that gets everything without having paid a penny in tax or contributions . Thank you again Gorden you are a Gem
I can understand the fuss when people do not appreciate what the actual situation is.
It is a reciprocating scheme that applies to all EEA member countries. As long as someone has paid their NI stamp and qualifies then they can claim some benefits if they move to other countries, just the same as someone from Malta deciding to come and live or retire in the UK can claim theirs.
I took a bit of time researching the facts before posting my message, which is why I could give links to useful information that explains who to contact etc. My guess is that this has to be where the person concerned was already in receipt of DLA before emigrating. From what I've seen you would need to be resident in the UK to start a new claim.
As for the naysayers - hotspot is a Brit who's gone to live abroad, not someone from another country expecting handouts. It seemed a reasonable enquiry to me when I read it and can't understand why there's been such an attitude to the issue.
(where's the smilie with the wagging finger...?)
I agree! I taught for over 25 years and I have seen the decline in society over the years!
Plenty of people in UK who have never worked " earned" more than I did as a teacher with a degree! Why? They had more than 3 children and got every benefit you can imagine. Were the children cared for properly? In most cases no! They came to school in dirty clothes, many without adequate underwear. Many had poor vocabulary and ate poor diets. The parents smoked and turned up at school with the latest tattoos and hair colour! They neglected their children in so many ways that even a child sleeping in a bed with dog poo was not bad enough for social services to get involved! Why? It was common and not the worst case!
So why a person who has paid their taxes can't get benefits when they get sick just because they escaped the madness of the benefit system in UK that rewards the lazy! I saw first hand many parents who were totally healthy but had no intention of working ever. Not only that their efforts a child rearing was unbelievably lacking and was rewarded with more money. If the parents have a problem child or are problems themselves...more money is thrown at them ...the problem remains. If they can get a child diagnosed with a condition ...benefits go up. The amount of requests I got from doctors to say a child was ADHD was laughable. All of this cost the tax payer! So giving a hard working man a pension in Malta is a drop in the ocean and probably deserved!
Choosing citizenship of another country was part of the for and against judgements that we make in life giving up the NHS and welfare state when sufficient provision has been made for life without them .
Some countries have checks on immigration that remove those not able to work or provide for their own needs as they should otherwise it would be open wide spread abuse.
Giving up citizenship is a choice that was freely made and has brought the results that were desired enjoy the better life that has been found in the sun.
traindriver I expect you would go and live in the sun given the chance nobody has asked me to have COPD SIR i have not given up my citizenship i still have a british passport and have paid my dues in the UK and getting nothing in return what me and my husband are doing is helping other people getting handouts with the money we have paid in taxes and stamps, does that seem fair!!!!! not its not
Thank you Gordon for all your help and support.
Hi Everyone
The subject of welfare benefits always seems to polarise opinion.
Every benefit has qualifying rules - and if someone meets the qualifying rules they get the benefit (or pension) - good luck to them. Some benefits or pensions - usually those based on national insurance contributions - can be claimed whilst living abroad. For some you have to be living in the UK.
Nobody should be "challenged" for asking a perfectly reasonable question.
Deciding to go and live in another country, is a brave decision - even more so when you have a long term condition. As long as that decision has been made taking into account everything - why shouldn't someone choose to live abroad, particuarly if the quality of life improves - and if they qualify for a benefit/pension in the UK, that they can still get in the country they choose to live in then all well and good.
Sometimes when someone asks a question all they need is an answer - not an opinion.
Thanks
Mark
Thank you Mark.
I know I was becoming quite concerned at the bias and opposition shown by some when the question is actually quite valid and was being asked by someone with a British passport who has paid into the system like the rest of us. It seems that there are possibilities, but hotspot will have to make enquiries and it may come to nothing.
Thank you Mark and Gordon I value your comments why some people are being nasty i don't know after all i only asked a question not an opinion .Thanks to all that replied to me and tried to help Aunty Mary Jo etc . Hope you all have a nice day.
