Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
This is being replaced by PIP for people age 16 and over. This is a non-means tested benefit.
DLA also has the same two components as PIP but
there are three rates for Daily Living (or Care): Lower, Middle and Higher.
For Mobility
there are two rates: Lower and Higher.
The additional benefits are the same as for PIP at the equivalent rates:
Higher rate
equates to enhanced rate, and middle rate equates to standard rate.
As mobility
component of DLA does not have a middle rate, only those added benefits of the
enhanced rate PIP can apply – the Blue Badge and the Motability Scheme.
DLA remains
the disability benefit for children up to age 16.
The higher rate Mobility component is payable from age 3.
The lower rate mobility component is not payable until a child is age 5 or over.
The above
is general information only. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss
entitlement.
If you are thinking about claiming a higher
rate of benefit to that which you are currently receiving because your
circumstances have changed, then it is important to check matters in more depth
and/or seek advice before proceeding. This is because when the Department for
Work and Pensions are asked to review a person’s benefit entitlement, one of
four things will happen:
It will stay the same
It will go up
It will go down
It will be withdrawn