mobility allowance

They have been threatened with having their mobility allowance cut.

After months of being housebound, I applied for mobility allowance.

Children under 5 aren't eligible for mobility allowance to help the parents with transport.

Mobility allowance was introduced in 1976 to help disabled people whose walking ability is severely restricted.

You could call it a mobility allowance?

Free car parking to people in receipt of mobility allowance and claiming exemption from road fund duty.

The mobility allowance amounted initially to £10 a week and was recognised as anything but adequate.

They get mobility allowances, heating allowances and anything else you can think of.'

The mobility allowance will still not be available to people over 65, though once awarded it will be paid regardless of age.

By the end of 1991, when the institutes were closed, migration, early retirement and mobility allowances reduced this number to 15,000 - still far too many.

Mobility Allowance is paid to people who become unable to walk or virtually unable to walk before the age of 65.

A lot receive mobility allowances.

Unbelievably, I discovered tonight that the majority of people in disability categories 9 and 10 fail to claim attendance or mobility allowance.

If she loses her mobility allowance, her car goes with it and she will be stranded in the nursing home.

Mobility allowance beneficiaries are entitled, like members of the old vehicle schemes, to exemption from payment of road tax on cars.

The switch from a traveling allowance to a mobility allowance, which is paid regardless of income to all employees, replacing company car privileges.

She has used the mobility allowance to help finance a van that can accommodate a wheelchair, so she can take him home for regular visits.

Mr Ennals was proposing to replace the 'trikes' with a new mobility allowance.

Only 130,000 of 700,000 eligible disabled people in Britain use their mobility allowance to run a vehicle which could give them a new life through personal transport.

Both sons receive the higher rate of the mobility allowance, £49.85 a week, a reflection of the seriousness of their disabilities.

He's cut the DLA mobility allowance.

The Mobility Allowance was a positive advance but it soon became clear that it was not large enough to buy and run even the smallest car.

These are child benefits, industrial injuries and death benefits, certain invalidity benefits, and attendance and mobility allowances.

Age Concern believes that Mobility Allowance should be extended to those who become disabled after 65 and that payment should continue regardless of age.

We will increase Invalidity Benefit by 15%, extend mobility allowance and base payments on medical records rather than National Insurance contributions.