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Is DLA Mobility Component reinstated?

CaroleL
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Pembrokeshire Citizens Advice. Community Advice Team. Senior Caseworker

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This is probably a simple question but I couldn’t find an example in CPAG.
Client in hospital for over 28 days so both components of DLA payment stop.  If client then enters a care home does mobility component go back into payment. Or, would it have to be in payment when entering care home for it to continue?
It will be a residential care home and local authority funded.

Paul_Treloar_AgeUK
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It’s payment of DLA that is suspended after 28 days in hospital, not the underlying entitlement, so mobility component should be payable in the care home.