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<p>Attendance Allowance (AA) is intended to help those with a severe disability who
have long term care or supervision needs where those needs arise after reaching State
Pension age. Entitlement is based on the on-going need for frequent personal care
and attention, or supervision to ensure personal safety. A mobility component for
those whose needs arise after State Pension age is not provided as it is expected
that many older people will develop mobility issues as part of the ageing process.
This is a long standing policy continued by successive Governments. There is no constraint
on what the benefit can be used for, and individual recipients can choose to use their
Attendance Allowance to fund mobility aids.</p><p> </p><p>Latest published figures
at end of February 2021, show that nationally there were 1.49m claimants of AA, of
which 2,222 were in the Barnsley Central Parliamentary Constituency. In terms of expenditure
on AA, nationally this was forecast to be £5.3bn in 2020/21.</p><p> </p>
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