You have to actually be getting paid the DLA care/AA to qualify for the SDP. The DLA care/AA remains dormant until such time as your client leaves care and returns to the general community, at which time they or their appointee just need to notify the DBU to get payment of that benefit restarted, and if at that point they count as "living alone" and don't have a carer they should qualify for the SDP.
...Unless, that is, someone knows of an interesting Commissioners decision on this...?
Happy New Year.
|