Care home residents to keep mobility allowance

As expected, the Government has announced that, when Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is replaced with Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in 2013, disabled people in residential care will continue to receive any mobility component of PIP they are entitled to. Maria Miller, the Minister for Disabled Peoplesaid: "The reasoning behind the original decision was to ensure there were no overlaps in funding leading to double payments. "We found a complex set of overlapping responsibilities have evolved which have allowed different local authorities to deal with the issue of funding of mobi...