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If you look at the Audit report, it makes clear that it's a residential care isue.
"23. The rules on attendance allowance state that where the individual lives in a care home and receives
care or support from the state, then they will no longer be entitled to attendance allowance. As a
result of the introduction of FPNC, older people living in care homes in Scotland who became
entitled to free personal care are no longer entitled to attendance allowance. This means
approximately £30 million per annum of attendance allowance payments are no longer paid to older
people in Scotland’s care homes.11
24. The Scottish Executive expected these amounts to be transferred to it by the Department of Work
and Pensions (DWP) to contribute to the cost of the FPNC policy, and had factored this into its
costing of the policy. However, this did not happen which meant the Scottish Executive had to cover
this gap in funding for the policy from its own budget."
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