Disability Living Allowance: Young People
Commons · Question 53185 · Tabled 19 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 27 May 2025
Question
Asked by Alicia Kearns
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending disability living allowance for children up to the age of 25.
Answer
Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 27 May 2025
Through our Green Paper, Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, we are consulting on raising the age at which young people move from Disability Living Allowance for children (DLAc) to the adult disability benefit Personal...