Dla reform and Personal Independence Payment – completing the detailed design
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Contents 1. Executive summary 4 1. Executive summary 4 2. Introduction 6 2. Introduction 6 3. Eligibility 7 3. Eligibility 7 A benefit relating to long-term disability – the required period condition 7 Re-claiming the benefit – linking rules 8 Children 9 Claims from young people at age 16 10 Residence and presence rules 11 Temporary absences abroad 13 4. Payability of the benefit 15 4. Payability of the benefit 15 4.1This chapter sets out how the payment of benefit is envisaged to operate for certain groups of people. This includes proposed provisions relating to payment of benefit for care home residents, hospital in-patients, and those undergoing legal detention. It also sets out the proposed approach relating to entitlement to benefit in respect of those people who reach the upper age limit (age 65 or state pension age, whichever is higher). Personal Independence Payment benefit rates have not been set and have not been included in this consultation document. The rates of Personal Independence Payment will be in regulations and will be announced following the Autumn Statement 2012. 15 Upper age limit – entitlement to Personal Independence Payment 15 Hospital and care home residents 16 Changes to certain Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance rules 18 Prisoners 19 5. Reassessing existing Disability Living Allowance claims 22 5. Reassessing existing Disability Living Allowance claims 22 Who will be reassessed 22 Timetable for reassessment 23 Information requirements: what people need to provide and when 23 When payment of Disability Living Allowance will stop and Personal Independence Payment will commence 25 6. Award durations and reviews 27 6. Award durations and reviews 27 7. Passporting arrangements 28 7. Passporting arrangements 28 DWP benefits and schemes 28 Non-DWP schemes and benefits 30 8. Changes to Residence and Presence conditions in Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Carer’s Allowance 32 8. Changes to Residence and Presence conditions in Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Carer’s Allowance 32 Residence and Past Presence Tests 33 Temporary Absences Abroad 33 9. Impact assessment 34 9. Impact assessment 34 Overview of potential equality impacts 34 10. About this consultation 38 10. About this consultation 38 Audience, purpose and scope 38 Consultation arrangements 38 Annex 1 – Consultation questions 42 Annex 1 – Consultation questions 42 Chapter 3 questions – Eligibility 42 Chapter 4 questions – Payability of Benefit 42 Chapter 5 questions – Reassessing existing DLA claims 43 Chapter 8 questions – Residence and past presence tests 43 Chapter 9 questions – Impact assessment 44
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