If your disability causes care needs you may get:
- DLA Care Component if you claim/ed before the age of 16.
- PIP Daily Living Component if you claim/ed before Pension Age.
- Attendance Allowance if you claim/ed after Pension Age.
If your disability causes mobility difficulties you may get:
- DLA Mobility Component if you claim/ed before the age of 16.
- PIP Mobility Component if you claim/ed before Pension Age.
Children moving from DLA to PIP
If you get DLA when you are under 16, in the time around your 16th birthday you will be invited to make a claim for PIP. Your DLA award will be maintained until the initial decision on your PIP claim.
PIP after Pension Age
If you claim PIP before pension age your award can carry on afterwards. It can be renewed when necessary; sometimes even after a break.
Although an existing award can be renewed, it is not possible to get a new or increased award of PIP Mobility Component for a period that begins after you reach pension age, unless you are migrating from DLA.
Adults migrating from DLA to PIP
Before PIP was introduced in June 2013, adults under the age of 65 could claim DLA. If you are an adult who got DLA, you may still get it.
If you were aged 65 or over on 8th April 2013, you stay on DLA
If you were aged under 65 on 8th April 2013:
- you can choose to claim PIP now, instead of your DLA, even though you are now aged 65 or over.
- if your DLA award comes to an end, or you report a change-of-circumstances, you will be invited to claim PIP instead.
- if you do not make a voluntary claim for PIP, you will eventually be migrated to it. This is mostly on hold until 2028.