Can anybody explain to me how the deferred payment scheme works, because my local authority don't seem to be able to. My mother has recently gone into a nursing home, I have taken out deferred payment with the county council, but can they explain the calculations - absolutely not. Firstly they produce 2 entirely different figures for the weekly payment. Then they tell me that my mother loses her attendance allowance but DWP say she doesn't, and finally out of the £522 payment a week they say they are deferring £341 and I fund the rest, but where does the pension come into this equation.