Disability Living Allowance (DLA) has been replaced by Personal Independence Payment (PIP). This helps with some of the extra costs caused by long-term ill-health or a disability if you’re aged 16 to 64.

Whether you should claim DLA or PIP depends on where you live and when you make your claim. If you’re currently receiving DLA and you were over 65 on 8 April 2013, you will stay on it for the time being. If you were under 65 on 8 April 2013, you will eventually have to stop claiming DLA and you may be eligible for PIP instead. This will happen at some point between October 2013 and 2018.

PIP has many similarities with Disability Living Allowance. It has two components: a daily living component (similar to DLA’s care component) and a mobility component, which are paid at different rates depending on the level of difficulty you have.

It isn’t means-tested, so it isn’t affected by your income and savings. It isn’t taxable.

In the future, new claimants for DLA will be children aged 0-17, new PIP claimants will be aged 18-65 and new AA claimants will be people over 65.

Please get in touch with us for further information.