PART 2Disability Assistance for Working Age People

Overview3

1

An individual is entitled to Adult Disability Payment in accordance with these Regulations if the individual meets the eligibility rules in—

a

regulation 4 (entitlement to other benefits),

b

regulations 15 to 21 (residence and presence conditions),

c

regulation 22 (age criteria), and

d

one or more of the following—

i

regulation 5 (daily living component),

ii

regulation 6 (mobility component),

iii

regulation 26 (entitlement under special rules for terminal illness).

2

Adult Disability Payment is to consist of a daily living component and a mobility component.

3

There are 2 weekly rates of the daily living component and 2 weekly rates of the mobility component and those rates are specified in regulation 34 (amount and form of Adult Disability Payment).