Explanatory Notes

Welfare Reform Act 2007

2007 CHAPTER 5

3rd May 2007

Commentary on Sections

PART 4: Miscellaneous

Disability living allowance: age conditions

Section 53: Mobility component of disability living allowance: persons under the age of 16

260.This section amends section 73 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, which sets out the entitlement conditions to the mobility component of disability living allowance (section 73(1)). The entitlement conditions are modified in the case of claims for a period in which the claimant is under the age of 16 (section 73(4)). This section removes subsection (4) and replaces it with new subsections (4A) and (9A). The new subsections apply the same modifications to the standard entitlement conditions for the mobility component (in section 73(1)) but only if a person is under the age of 16 on the date on which the award would begin and only in relation to any period up to and including the day before a person reaches the age of 16. Consequential amendments are also made.