Disability Living Allowance: Children

(asked on 2nd July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to ensure that children with cancer that are in receipt of disability living allowance have access to financial support that is backdated to the day of their diagnosis after the completion of the three-month qualifying period.


Answered by
Sarah Newton Portrait
Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 10th July 2018

Other than for those who are terminally ill, Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is assessed on the basis of the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability rather than a diagnosis. Primary legislation sets out that a claimant cannot be entitled to DLA for any period prior to the date of claim.

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