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Attendance Allowance is a non-contributory Social Security benefit paid to elderly disabled people in the United Kingdom. [1] It was introduced in the National Insurance (Old Persons' and Widows' Pension and Attendance Allowance) Act 1970 . [ 2 ]
The benefit was established by the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, integrating the former benefits Mobility Allowance and Attendance Allowance and introducing two additional lower rates of benefit. Prior to 2013 it could be claimed by UK residents aged under sixty five years.
With initial decisions, almost two-thirds of claimants were declared 'fit for work' by the DWP in 2009 and 2010. This dropped to around half once the reassessment programme got underway in 2011; by 2013, it was a third; by 2014, only a quarter of claimants were declared 'fit for work' by the DWP at the first stage of the decision-making process ...
In 2009–2010 the DWP stated £1.95 billion job-seekers allowance, £2 billion income support and employment and support allowance, £2.4 billion in council tax, £2.8 billion in pension credit and £3.1 billion for housing benefit; in total £12.25 billion had not been claimed. [43]
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Australians who are temporarily unable to work due to illness, injury or a short-term disability may be eligible for Sickness Allowance. [5] Sickness Allowance pays less than the DSP; as of 1 January 2009, single recipients were entitled to a basic rate of A$449.30 per fortnight and couples A$405.30 for each person. [ 6 ]
PIP was introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 (which have been repeatedly amended). It began to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for new claims from 8 April 2013, by means of an initial pilot in selected areas of north-west and north-east England.
Disability Living Allowance: £12.6 Pension Credit: £8.1 Income Support: £6.9 Rent rebates: £5.5 Attendance Allowance: £5.3 Jobseeker's allowance: £4.9 Incapacity Benefit: £4.9 Council Tax Benefit: £4.8 Others: £4.7 Employment and Support Allowance: £3.6 Statutory Sick/Maternity pay: £2.5 Social Fund: £2.4 Carer's allowance: £1.7 ...