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Spending Review 2010
Removal of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) Mobility Component from Care Home Residents from October 2012
DLA care and mobility components are generally not paid when a claimant is admitted to a
hospital or similar institution after a prescribed number of days. The claimant retains an underlying
entitlement to DLA during their stay and payments can resume from the date they are discharged.
This rule is applied to ensure that payment is not made twice from public funds to meet the same
need. At present when a person is admitted to a residential care home funded by a public body
only the care component is withdrawn and any mobility component remains in payment.
The proposed policy is to stop payment of the mobility component after 28 days (84 days for a
child) resident in a care home funded by a public body. THIS WOULD INCLUDE THOSE IN THE
MOTABILITY SCHEME IN BOTH CARE HOMES AND HOSPITALS. Those who fully self-fund their own care
would be unaffected by the change.
Many many more disgraceful decisions like this in the pipeline i am afraid from this lot.
I wonder how many people between ages of 25-35 will be affected by the withdrawal of full housing benefit entitlement from April.
As I understand it, if someone is on the motability scheme they keep the car until the end of the three year period.
As I understand it, if someone is on the motability scheme they keep the car until the end of the three year period.
not if they haven’t got the DLA to pay for it…..
I thought it would be the same rule as the current one that allows a claimant in hospital to keep their motability car for the full term of the agreement DLA regs, reg 12B(7)-(9)
“Disability living allowance cuts could confine disabled to homes, say charities - article from today’s Guardian
A group of charities published a report yesterday, Don’t Limit Mobility, setting out their concerns about the cut, arguing that local authorities are in no position to meet the shortfall, and warning that the impact on those who receive the allowance will be “massive”, “with many left unable to afford to leave their home, and denied the independence most people take for granted”.