A Guide To Disability Living Allowance Rates

Hello, my name is Lee Healy, and I am the managing director of Income Max. We help people to make sense of and understand the benefits of tax credit systems. Today, we are going to tell you lots about the benefits and the tax credits that are available.

Disability living alliance is a disability benefit for people under 65 when they first claim. Now, this is broken down into two components care and mobility, each component is broken down into rights. First of all, the care component; the care component has three rights, low, middle and high.

The mobility component has two rights low and high. The low right, you would normally qualify for the low right if you need some kind of the help with cooking the main meal or preparing the main meal or alternatively if you have got some kind of a health problem and disability affecting you and you need smaller amount of the help with that each day, so that might be things like getting out of the bed, getting dressed so on and so forth. For the middles right of the care component, we are basically looking to see if you need help for your personal care.

Now, this includes things like bathing, washing, getting out of the bath, getting dressed, it can also include if you need supervision to avoid danger, so has been clubbed seizures and those kind of the things. For the middle right, the government will be looking at whether you need help during the day or during the night. Now, the high right has similar roles to the middle right apart from its looking to see whether you actually need this help bath during the day and during the night.

So basically just to summarize, the care component is broken down in low, middle and high rights. Now, the mobility component is slightly different, for the mobility, it has the low and high right, so two rights The low right mobility component is basically looking to see whether you need guidance and supervision when outdoors. Now, this kind applies to people who have particularly got the visual impairment or perhaps you have got the hearing impairment or perhaps you have got seizures or perhaps you have got so, it's basically looking at the support you need or the help you needed when outdoors from another person.

The high right mobility component is a little bit different, it's more concentrated on kind of physical walking problems, so for example, perhaps you are physically unable to walk, perhaps what's called virtually unable to walk, perhaps which is where they are looking at how far you can walk the distance or how you actually walk or maybe you feel pain and discomfort or also perhaps you were an amputee or you were born without legs, that's a qualifying criteria for the high right. There is also special role for the high right mobility looking at especially what I call severe mental impairment. With that particular category, they are going to be looking to see whether you have got the high right of the care component as well.

So just to summarize on the mobility, we have got two rights the high right and the low right of mobility. It's worth mentioning that for the children, the mobility component has got some restriction, so for example children under five will basically be unable to claim the low rate mobility and children under three are unable to claim the high right mobility. For information on all disability living alliance rights, it's worth visiting the disability alliance website you can visit that at www.

disablityalliance.org. This is a guide to disability living alliance rights. .