Dataset: Disability Living Allowance (Cases in Payment)
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a tax-free benefit for disabled people who need help with mobility or care costs. It replaced and extended Attendance Allowance (AA) and Mobility Allowance (MobA) for people in this age group from April 1992.
Personal Independence payment (PIP) is gradually replacing DLA for claimants who were aged 16 to 64 on 8 April 2013, or reach age 16 after that date. You can claim DLA if you are under 16 or if you were born before 8 April 1948 and you make a claim in the same year you stopped receiving DLA.
DLA has two components which can be paid together or on their own:
A care component for people who have needed help with personal care for at least 3 months and are likely to go on needing that help for at least a further 6 months.
A mobility component for people who have had walking difficulties for at least 3 months and are likely to continue to have those difficulties for at least a further 6 months.
The statistics available here do not include those who have had their payment suspended, for example if they are in hospital.
Recording and clerical errors can occur within the data source - for this reason, no reliance should be placed on very small numbers obtained through Stat-Xplore.
Statistical disclosure control has been applied with Stat-Xplore, which guards against the identification of an individual claimant.
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