× Search rightsnet
Search options

Where

Benefit

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction

From

to

Forum Home  →  Discussion  →  Disability benefits  →  Thread

DLA/PIP rules for diplomats and their family members.

Nan
forum member

Generalist team - Hammersmith & Fulham CAB

Send message

Total Posts: 155

Joined: 8 July 2010

Hi all,

I have a very obscure question.

I wanted to know if you could point me to any legislation/guidance to the rights of diplomats and their children to claim disability benefits. I have had no luck after looking through CPAG and DRHB.

Cheers,

HFCAB

Elliot Kent
forum member

Shelter

Send message

Total Posts: 3117

Joined: 14 July 2014

I don’t believe there are any special rules. They can claim like anyone else.

Is there something specific you need to know?

(I would love to argue diplomatic immunity in an overpayment case…)

Mike Hughes
forum member

Senior welfare rights officer - Salford City Council Welfare Rights Service

Send message

Total Posts: 3138

Joined: 17 June 2010

A diplomat with an industrial injury would be as interesting.

ClairemHodgson
forum member

Solicitor, SC Law, Harrow

Send message

Total Posts: 1221

Joined: 13 April 2016

bet you’re looking at residence test….....

Nan
forum member

Generalist team - Hammersmith & Fulham CAB

Send message

Total Posts: 155

Joined: 8 July 2010

Elliot Kent - 27 July 2016 05:09 PM

I don’t believe there are any special rules. They can claim like anyone else.

Is there something specific you need to know?

(I would love to argue diplomatic immunity in an overpayment case…)

Thanks- sorry for late response-

I am dealing with a diplomatic family from a non-EEA country (with no reciprocal agreements or anything), now living in the UK where the young person (aged 17) in the family has just been diagnosed with cancer. Are there any special rules for diplomats/diplomatic passports or is it standard rules of clarifying whether they have recourse to public funds etc?

Elliot Kent
forum member

Shelter

Send message

Total Posts: 3117

Joined: 14 July 2014

I think it has to be standard rules. The client is treated as a PSIC unless they (a) need leave to enter and don’t have it, (b) have it but with no recourse to public funds or (c) have it but with a maintenance undertaking.

If they have leave on diplomatic grounds and aren’t hit by the other conditions, it would seem to me that they qualify - just as if they had that leave on any other ground.

Nan
forum member

Generalist team - Hammersmith & Fulham CAB

Send message

Total Posts: 155

Joined: 8 July 2010

Cheers Elliot.