PART 6Provisions relating to age

Claim for personal independence payment after an interval and after reaching the relevant age26

1

Where C has reached the relevant age and makes a new claim in the circumstances set out in regulation 15 the following exceptions apply.

2

The exceptions referred to in paragraph (1) are—

a

Article 88(1) does not apply;

b

the reference to “2 years” in regulation 15(1)(b) is to be read as “one year”;

c

where C is assessed as having severely limited ability to carry out mobility activities for the purposes of the new claim—

i

C is entitled to the enhanced rate of the mobility component only if C was entitled to that rate of that component under the previous award, and

ii

where C is not entitled to the enhanced rate of that component because of head (i), C is entitled to the standard rate of that component provided that C was entitled to that rate of that component under the previous award; and

d

where C is assessed as having limited ability to carry out mobility activities for the purposes of the new claim, C is entitled to the standard rate of the mobility component only if C was entitled to that component, at either rate, under the previous award.