The system of benefits is very unfair with some benefits being means-tested and regularly reviewed with others not.
There are people on Disability Living Allowance with Mobility allowance who have been given a free car lease with all insurance tax etc paid because they have a 'life-threatening illness' even though they have been in remission for several years and their health and mobility has been excellent.
I know someone in this enviable situation. This benefit is never reviewed even though their illness is no mobility is no longer compromised. Nor is this benefit means-tested. This applies to people with various cancers, heart conditions and HIV which have been treated leading to a long remission.
The benefit is also payable after pension age, despite the fact that many other pensioners my have greater aging infirmities for which they do not get such benefits.
It is a disgrace that there are different rules for different benefits with means-testing for some and not for others, and so many people seem to get so much while others seem to get so little.
2 Jul 2011
A reader writes
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The 'reader' is incorrect.
All DLA 'terminal illness' recipients ( Special Rules awards) were made indefinite due to the nature of the prognosis. All such indefinite awards made under Special Rules are currently being reviewed, and re-assessed. New awards under Special Rules are for 3 year period only. This process has been ongoing for over a year now.
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