ib and hospital

hi all
this years letter (BF140B-IB) from ib jcp office with heading of About the general increase in benefits reads -

extract from first paragraph:-
it is important that you tell us about any changes,such as entring or leaving hospital.

how many days minimum one have to be in hospital as inpatient to report this. is it 7 days or 30 days or more or less than 7 days.
any info please- many thanks
bal

Hi,

The safest thing to do is report any stay as an in-patient in hospital, regardless of the length of stay as various benefits are affected differently by stays in hospital.

Steve

The first night counts as one day if you actually stay in hospital.
As Steve says you should report any overnight stays in hospital,as it could affect your benefit.

When i was working out dates for in patients in hospital or residential care[respite].DLA was stopped after the 28th day in hospital and re-instated as soon as the customer left the hospital.

DLA is 28days in hospital within a 3month period whether it is one stay or 2 or more if it totals up to 28 days DLA is stopped hope this helps peter

Thanks Peterjclive

I didn't want to go into too much detail re linking dates in case the system had changed.

However if some-one goes into residential care and they are self funding then the DLA carries on being paid whilst self funding continues.