Benefits for Migrants Handbook (13th edition)Part 4: Benefits and residence rulesChapter 13: Residence and presence: rules for individual benefits 4. Disability and carers' benefits
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  • Exemptions from habitual residence and past presence test
  • European Union co-ordination rules
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    • 4. Disability and carers’ benefits
    For attendance allowance (AA), personal independence payment (PIP), adult disability payment (ADP), disability living allowance (DLA), child disability payment (CDP) and carer’s allowance (CA), you must:1AA Reg 2 SS(AA) Regs
    PIP Reg 16 SS(PIP) Regs ADP Reg 15 DAWAP(S) Regs
    DLA Reg 2 SS(DLA) Regs
    CDP Reg 5(1), (2) and (3) DACYP(S) Regs
    CA Reg 9 SS(ICA) Regs
      •be present in Great Britain (for CDP and ADP, the common travel area – the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands and Isle of Man) at the time of your claim;
      •have been present in Great Britain (for CDP and ADP, the common travel area) for at least 104 weeks in the last 156 weeks (26 weeks in the last 52 weeks for DLA, CDP and ADP) (the ‘past presence test’). See here, and see below if you are a child and see also the exemptions here;
      •be habitually resident in the common travel area. See here, but also the exemptions below; and
      •(CDP and ADP only) be ordinarily resident in Scotland.
    The past presence test for a chil
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