Question follow-through · 11788
Disability Living Allowance: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending eligibility of the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance to individuals over the age of 65.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Social security and pensions
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending eligibility of the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance to individuals over the age of 65.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2024
Answer published
Disability Living Allowance and government mobility support is focused on providing additional help with the extra costs of disability to people who are severely disabled early, or relatively early, in life and who as a result, have had fewer opportunitie...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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