Disability
Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance- what happens when you move to another
country.
You will not be paid for either benefit when you move abroad unless you
-live in a European Community country and
-were awarded your benefit before 1st June 1992 and
-have paid national insurance contributions or have worked in the United Kingdom on an employed or self-employed basis.
The DSS Decision Makers' Guide states that
Claimants who were entitled to Attendance Allowance or Disability Living Allowance before 1.6.92 can export their benefit when they take up habitual residence in another European Economic Area country if they satisfy all the other conditions of entitlement to Attendance Allowance or Disability Living Allowance, other than residence and presence conditions and are currently working in the United Kingdom, whether paying national insurance contributions or not or have worked in the United Kingdom as employed or self employed persons and at the time they apply to export their Attendance Allowance, have entitlement to an insurance benefit (for example Retirement Pension, Incapacity Benefit, graduated Retirement Benefit) based on past contributions . (emphasis added)
European Community Countries
Austria
Belgium
Denmark excluding the Faroes Islands,
Finland except the Alånd Islands
France including Corsica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion and French Guiana, but excluding Monaco
Germany
Greece including Crete and the Greek islands
Ireland
Italy including Sicily, Sardinia and Elba, but excluding the Vatican City and San Marino Luxembourg
Netherlands excluding the Dutch Antilles
Portugal including Madeira and the Azores
Spain including the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla
Sweden
