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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
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27 May 2025
SECTION B: CARE AND MOBILITY
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
SECTION B: CARE AND MOBILITY
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SECTION B: CARE AND MOBILITY
Chapter 3: Disability living allowance
A. GENERAL POINTS
1. What is disability living allowance?
2. Does your child qualify for DLA?
3. Age limits
4. Qualifying periods
5. How much is DLA?
6. Does anything affect payment?
Box B.1: DLA and other help
7. If your child goes into hospital
8. If your child goes into a care home
B. THE MOBILITY COMPONENT
9. The disability tests
10. Other factors
11. ‘Virtually unable to walk’
12. Severe mental impairment
Box B.2: Learning disabilities
13. The lower rate
C. THE CARE COMPONENT
14. The disability tests
15. Extra care or supervision needs
16. Infants (children under 1 year old)
17. Older infants and young children
18. Older children
19. Renal dialysis
D. CLAIMS, PAYMENTS & APPEALS
20. How do you claim?
Box B.3: Completing the DLA claim-form
21. Keeping a diary
Box B.4: One-day diary
22. How the claim is assessed
23. The award
24. If you are not happy with the decision
25. How is DLA paid?
26. What if your child’s condition changes?
E. DLA FOR ADULTS
27. How is DLA different for adults?
Chapter 4: Personal independence payment
A. GENERAL POINTS
1. What is personal independence payment?
Box B.5: Re-assessment of existing DLA claimants
Box B.6: PIP and other help
2. Do you qualify?
3. Age limits
4. The required period condition
Box B.7: Special rules for end of life
5. How much do you get?
6. Does anything affect what you get?
7. If you go into hospital
8. If you go into a care home
B. THE PIP ASSESSMENT
9. What is the PIP assessment?
10. The daily living component
11. What are daily living activities?
Box B.8: Daily living activities
12. The mobility component
13. What are mobility activities?
Box B.9: Mobility activities
C. CLAIMS, PAYMENTS & APPEALS
14. How do you claim?
Box B.10: Completing the form – How your disability affects you
15. How your claim is assessed
16. The decision
17. If you are not happy with the decision
18. How are you paid?
19. What if your condition changes?
20. Reviewing your claim
21. What happens when your award is due to end?
Chapter 5: Attendance allowance
A. GENERAL POINTS
1. What is attendance allowance?
Box B.11: Attendance allowance and other help
2. Do you qualify?
3. Qualifying period
4. How much do you get?
5. Does anything affect what you get?
6. If you go into hospital
7. If you go into a care home
Box B.12: Respite care
B. THE DISABILITY TEST
8. The disability test
9. What is ‘attention’?
10. What is ‘continual supervision’?
11. Attention or supervision?
12. What is ‘watching over’?
13. Simpler methods
14. Renal dialysis
C. CLAIMS, PAYMENTS & APPEALS
15. How do you claim?
Box B.13: Completing the attendance allowance claim-form
16. Keeping a diary
Box B.14: Long-term diary
17. How your claim is assessed
18. The award
19. If you are not happy with the decision
20. How are you paid?
21. What if your condition changes?
Chapter 6: Disability payments (Scotland)
1. Introduction
A. CHILD DISABILITY PAYMENT
2. Child disability payment
3. Does your child qualify for CDP?
4 . Age limits
5. Qualifying periods
6. If your child goes into hospital or a care home
7. How do you claim?
8. How the claim is assessed
B. SCOTTISH ADULT DISABILITY LIVING ALLOWANCE
9. Scottish adult disability living allowance
C. ADULT DISABILITY PAYMENT
10. Adult disability payment
11. Do you qualify?
12. Qualifying periods
13. If you go into hospital or a care home
14. How do you claim?
15. How your claim is assessed
16. Transfers from PIP
D. PENSION AGE DISABILITY PAYMENT
17. Pension age disability payment
18. Do you qualify?
19. Qualifying period
20. If you go into hospital or a care home
21. Claims and assessments
22. Transfers from attendance allowance
E. COMMON RULES
23. Terminal illness
24. Does anything affect payment?
25. The award
26. If you are not happy with the decision
27. What if your or your child’s condition changes?
28. Reviews
29. Cross-border moves within the UK
Chapter 7: Help with mobility
1. Blue Badge scheme
Box B.15: Mobility checklist
2. Exemption from vehicle tax
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Disability Rights UK. "SECTION B: CARE AND MOBILITY." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026.
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Disability Rights UK. "SECTION B: CARE AND MOBILITY." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266401CITANCHOR.
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