Disability Living Allowance: Older People
Commons · Question 11788 · Tabled 29 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 4 Nov 2024
Question
Asked by Ann Davies
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending eligibility of the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance to individuals over the age of 65.
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 4 Nov 2024
Disability Living Allowance and government mobility support is focused on providing additional help with the extra costs of disability to people who are severely disabled early, or relatively early, in life and who as a result, have had fewer opportunitie...