Disability Living Allowance: Cystic Fibrosis
(asked on 21st March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of disability living allowance between the ages of 16 and 64 qualifying for each rate of (a) care and (b) mobility component have a main disabling condition of cystic fibrosis.
The information requested is shown in the table below.
DLA care component with Cystic Fibrosis as an identified main disability condition, aged 16-64 - August 2015 | |
All | 3,770 |
Higher Rate | 1,320 |
Lower Rate | 720 |
Middle Rate | 1,670 |
Nil Rate | 70 |
DLA mobility component with Cystic Fibrosis aged 16-64 - August 2015 | |
All | 3,770 |
Higher Rate | 1,780 |
Lower Rate | 110 |
Nil Rate | 1,880 |
Source: DWP 100% WPLS. |
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Notes: |
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1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Totals show the number of people in receipt of an allowance, and excludes cases where the payment has been suspended e.g. if they are in hospital. |
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3. A diagnosed medical condition does not mean that someone is automatically entitled to DLA. Entitlement is dependent on an assessment of how much help someone needs with personal care and/or mobility because of their disability. These statistics are only collected for administrative purposes. | |
4. DLA care and mobility components can be paid together or on their own. The nil payment row is where the claimant is in receipt of the care component and not the mobility component 5. This information does not include PIP which replaced DLA for new claimants aged 16 to 64 from 8 April 2013. | |