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DLA/PIP rules for diplomats and their family members.
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
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…)
A diplomat with an industrial injury would be as interesting.
bet you’re looking at residence test….....
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?
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.
Cheers Elliot.