If I remember rightly it was the All Works Test at the time of SDA but my memory's getting progressively worse so I can't be sure. I don't have the old resource material so wondered if anyone could help.
Are there the same exemptions for SDA as there are for IB specifically for those in receipt of DLA HRC ?

At different times, different rules applied, in the later stages getting DLA high care was one passport, as was IIDB assessment of 80%, or registered blind. Prior to 1997 middle care or high mobility, partially sighted or war pension all acted as passports.
Hope that helps.

Thanks Barbara, client had been on SDA for aeons and also gets DLA HRC. SDA just stopped after recently failed PCA - which I'm now assuming she should have been exempt from because of the HRC ?

there's a savings provision, shown between sections 67 and 68 of the SSC&B Act, if you can make any sense of it. all the provisions for SDA appear to written in gibberish unfortunately. there's also reg 31 of the IB (transitional) regs.
i've just struggled to find that a client who had high mob pre- april 97 was entitled to protection under the savings provision, but, if i understand correctly, it ended when her DLA award ended in 2003.

your client i think, is ok, but you might, like me, have to resort to vol 10 of the DM's guide. : (
i have just managed to get a client a supersession and arrears, but i'm not confident that it wasn't just because the DM was as confused as me.

oh for a handy flow chart!

jj

Many thanks for your responses. I posted this for a colleague so hope she can make sense of it.

Sue