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<p>Government support for mobility needs is focused on people who become disabled
earlier in life; developing mobility needs in older life is a normal consequence of
ageing for which people can plan and save for.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals can claim
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for the first time up to the day before they reach
State Pension age (SPa). Once someone is in receipt of PIP they can continue to do
so beyond SPa, including the mobility component if they were in receipt of it on reaching
SPa, for as long as they fulfil the entitlement conditions. There are limited circumstances
where someone in receipt of the mobility component can move between rates once over
SPa.</p><p> </p><p>PIP claimants over SPa cannot establish a new entitlement to either
rate of the mobility component in line with the general principle set out above.</p><p>
</p><p>The upper age limit for claiming PIP by new claimants for the first time was
last reviewed prior to the most recent changes to SPa made by the Pensions Act 2014
and we have no plans to amend the upper age limit.</p><p> </p><p>Where someone develops
mobility difficulties when over SPa they can use any benefit they receive, including
the daily living component of PIP, to meet those needs in a way that best suits them.
Additional travel concessions and support may also be available by reference to age,
whether or not there are mobility needs.</p>
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