Care home residents to keep mobility allowance

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Disabled people living in residential care will continue to have their additional mobility needs met, the Government has announced.

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 mobility in care homes in very different ways and some practices which have led to overlaps in funding."

An amendment to the Welfare Reform Bill will be brought forward to enable this decision to be carried through into PIP.

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