DLA RENEWAL

jackie wrote: I am 71 and have been on high rate care since 2011. I was not given mobility as the reason they stated was I was over 65 and it couldn't be considered. This award was for 5 years.
I filled my renewal claim in a couple of weeks ago with your helpful forms and was awarded high rate care and high rate mobility indefinitely .
I don't understand the mobility part.
Please help.

Just to make sure I understand your previous award of DLA made after you turned 65 did not include a mobility component, on renewal (at age 71) you have now been given a mobility award.

I'm afraid this makes no sense and worse still presents an overpayment opportunity although the fault would lie with the DWP and not you

You cannot be awarded DLA mobility over the age of 65 unless you were in receipt of a mobility award prior to the age of 65, the only exception to this would be if you could show that you met the criteria for a mobility award prior to the age of 65 even though it had not been awarded.

It's not impossible that this is the case, but it in turn opens the opportunity for an anytime revision of your previous award to include the mobility component.

We are going to struggle to help you with this issue on the forum because it may depend on the information you included with this renewal and your previous one, which we obviously cannot review on the forum.

So I am going to suggest that you get face to face advice from a trained advisor, do an internet search or "welfare advice" with your postcode, town or county.

Gordon