Non-means-tested benefits

Disability living allowance and personal independence payment

If payment of DLA care component or PIP daily living component has stopped because your child was in a care home, it should be reinstated when s/he comes home. You do not have to reclaim DLA/PIP, but you must tell the Disability Benefit Centre (see Appendix 1) that your child has come home.

Carer’s allowance

If your CA has stopped, either because your child’s DLA care component/PIP daily living component has stopped being paid, or because you have had a break from caring, you have to reclaim CA once you are entitled again (see Chapter 2).

 

Carer element, carer premium and carer addition

Once you are entitled to CA again, your carer element, carer premium or carer addition in any means-tested benefit should also be reinstated. Make sure you tell the DWP and/or local authority when you become entitled to CA again.