People on Personal Independence Payment have been warned over their benefits being reduced by the Department for Work and Pensions in two cases. The DWP benefit’s PIP handbook points to two scenarios where this would be the case.
The guidance explains: “The PIP mobility component overlaps with War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement. The PIP daily living component overlaps with Constant Attendance Allowance. The overlapping benefit is always paid in full and PIP is reduced by the amount of the overlapping benefit.”
You can claim Constant Attendance Allowance if you get Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) or a War Disablement Pension and you need daily care and attention because of a disability. There are 4 different weekly rates of Constant Attendance Allowance. How much you get depends on the extent of your disability and the amount of care you need.
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The exceptional rate is £177.40, while the intermediate rate is £133, full day rate £88 and part day rate £44. To claim you must need daily care and attention, for example home nursing or help with preparing or eating food and be 100% disabled (based on a medical examination)
Your entitlement to Constant Attendance Allowance will automatically be considered at the time of your medical examination for IIDB if a 100% assessment of your disability is being considered. War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement (WPMS) is paid with War Disablement Pension to help with extra mobility costs due to service caused disability. Anyone who gets WPMS can use their payment to cover the cost of a vehicle through the Motability Scheme.
If you get War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement, there are other kinds of help you may be entitled to. To be eligible for WPMS, a War Pension must be in payment for the amputation of one or both legs (through or above the ankle), or your War Pension must be 40% or higher, and the conditions that your War Pension is for are the main reason you are unable to walk, or why you find walking difficult, or the conditions that your War Pension is for are the main reason why trying to walk could put you in danger or seriously damage your health, or you cannot walk outside without someone’s help and your War Pension is for loss of vision assessed at 90% or more and hearing loss at 80% or more.