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<p>Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is an extra-costs benefit available as a contribution
to the extra costs associated with being disabled to those children under the age
of 16 who, due to a disability or health condition, have mobility issues and/or have
needs which are substantially in excess of a child the same age without the disability
or health condition. Entitlement to DLA depends on the effects that severe disability
has on a child’s life, and not on a particular disability or diagnosis. The needs
arising from Long Covid are assessed in the same way as for all other health conditions
or disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>From March 2021 we amended DLA statistical classifications
to include the category “Coronavirus COVID-19”. Data on the DLA caseload by a range
of factors, including main disabling condition, can be extracted from <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/jsf/login.xhtml"
target="_blank">Stat-Xplore - Log in (dwp.gov.uk).</a> Information on how to use Stat-Xplore
can be found at <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html"
target="_blank">Getting Started (dwp.gov.uk)</a>.</p>
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