Overview
- The DWP is reminding claimants to report nine specified changes, such as hospital or care‑home stays, travel abroad over four weeks, moving home, or updates to personal details, or risk reduced, stopped or repaid awards.
- Attendance Allowance is paid at £73.90 or £110.40 a week, usually every four weeks (£295.60 or £441.60), and moving from the lower to the higher rate adds £146 a month under current rules.
- Official figures show 1,859,539 entitlement cases across Great Britain as of February 2025, and 36% of awards have lasted five years or longer.
- The department lists 57 main disabling conditions recorded on claims, with arthritis the most common condition supported.
- New claims in Scotland are made through Social Security Scotland’s Pension Age Disability Payment rather than via the DWP.