Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is the benefit that’s gradually replacing Disability Living Allowance (DLA). You’ll carry on getting DLA if you were 65 or above on April 8, 2013, however, for everyone else aged 16 and over, DLA will stop and you’ll need to claim PIP instead - even if you have a ‘lifetime’ or ‘indefinite’ award for DLA.
This is because you won’t automatically move over to PIP. When it’s time, you’ll get a letter from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) asking you to make a new claim.
An existing DLA claimant can voluntarily contact the DWP to make a claim for PIP, but should do so with caution. If someone is already receiving both the higher rate of the mobility component and highest rate of the care component of.
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