Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 53185

Disability Living Allowance: Young People

Tabled: 19 May 2025
Answered: 27 May 2025

Question

Alicia Kearns

ConservativeRutland and Stamford

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending disability living allowance for children up to the age of 25.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Through our Green Paper, Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, we are consulting on raising the age at which young people move from Disability Living Allowance for children (DLAc) to the adult disability benefit Personal...

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