Attendance allowance

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I'm asking this on behalf of a friend and I'm trying to be vague.

Her mum has cancer and is going through chemotherapy, yesterday my friend had a call from whom she thought was the DWP advising her that because her mum has less than twelve months to live she can claim attendance allowance.

The thing is her mum having less than twelve months to live is news to my friend and other family members, where does the DWP get this information from? My friend is going out of her mind with worry, either the DWP are wrong or her mum hasn't told her and the other family members.

She doesn't want to upset her mum so she's trying to avoid speaking to her about this unless she absolutely has to.

Seems unlikely to be DWP. Could it be a hospital or community social worker?

I had a similar call when my mum was diagnosed with terminal cancer. I think it was from Living Well and they may have been passed the info from MacMillan (can’t remember for sure) They said as mum had estimated less than 12m to live, she could claim a weekly attendance allowance (That was two years ago and she is still responding well to the cancer treatments, oncology have never given any timescales)