Changes of circumstances
If you get extra SDA for your dependants, you must tell your Jobcentre Plus office at once if any of the following changes take place:
- you are going abroad. Please tell us which country you are going to, how long you will be staying there, and the address at which we can contact you
- or you or your dependant go into hospital
- or you go into prison or are held in legal detention in connection with a criminal offence
- or you start work
- or you stop getting DLA – in this case the office dealing with your benefit will arrange a medical assessment of your disability
- or one of the other conditions listed under the heading of ’Who is accepted as 80% disabled?’ stops applying to you (if that condition was accepted as satisfying the 80% disablement test) – in this case the office dealing with your benefit will arrange a medical assessment of your disability
- or your condition improves so that you think you may no longer be 80% disabled
- or you start to receive another benefit, unless it is DLA.
You should also tell them if you change your address.
If you go abroad SDA is payable for up to 26 weeks of a temporary absence if you have gone only for the treatment of an illness or disability which began before you left the UK, or you were incapable of work for at least 6 months before you left. In some circumstances it can be paid longer if you have gone specifically to receive treatment. It may also remain payable if you go to another [EEA country]. [Legislation (46)]
If you are working you cannot normally get SDA. But exceptions are made for permitted or voluntary work .
If you get extra SDA for your dependants, you must tell the Jobcentre Plus office of any relevant changes. For example, let the office know if your partner starts work, or their earnings go up, or your children leave school or home, or your dependants start to get another benefit in their own right (except DLA).