3. Disability and benefits
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3. Disability and benefits
Few of your rights depend on what your condition is called. In most cases, your entitlement to a benefit or service depends on the effect of the disability on your life. In addition to the disability tests and definitions listed below, there may be other conditions you must meet to get a particular benefit or service.
What is disability?
Within the benefits system there are several different tests of disability:
    ■limited capability for work – used for employment and support allowance and your work-related responsibilities for universal credit;
    ■incapacity for work – used for statutory sick pay and the unemployability supplement under the Industrial Injuries and War Disablement schemes; and
    ■degree of disablement – used for industrial injuries disablement benefit, war disablement pension and vaccine damage payments.
Disability living allowance, personal independence payment, attendance allowance, child disability payment, adult disability payment and pension age di
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