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<p>The principle underpinning Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is that payments are
made to families who incur extra costs as a result of meeting the additional care
and/or mobility needs of a disabled child.</p><br /><p>In deciding to set the lower
age limit for entitlement to the higher rate mobility component at 3 years of age,
the department considered views of medical advisors and independent research that
the majority of children could walk at the age of 2½. By the age of 3 it was realistically
possible in the majority of cases to make an informed decision as to whether an inability
to walk was the result of disability.</p><br /> <br /><p>We have no plans to make
changes to DLA for children under the age of 3.</p><br />
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