Mobility Component of Disability Living Allowance

The lower rate may be payable from age 5 and is:

• for people who cannot walk outside on unfamiliar routes without someone to guide or supervise them for most of the time.

The higher rate is payable to people from age 3 who are:

• unable or virtually unable to walk
• have had both legs amputated at or above the ankle
• born without legs or feet
• both deaf and blind
• severely mentally impaired with severe behavioural problems and entitled to the higher rate of the care component

You cannot get the Mobility Component if:

• you get a mobility supplement under any of the Armed Forces or War Pensions provisions; or
• you use an invalid carriage or other vehicle supplied to you under the NHS