The enhanced mobility rate of PIP also provides access to the Motability Scheme.
Certain groups of older people on Personal Independence Payment with an award for the lower rate of mobility element may be able to ask the Department for Work and Pensions to look again at their claim following a change in the law. People over State Pension age may also be entitled to an increased award for the mobility part of PIP even if they have stopped getting the benefit - and be due backdated payments.
The guidance states: “DWP did not have the legal powers to restrict the mobility award for claimants who were in receipt of the standard rate of the mobility award and over State Pension age, on the grounds of new medical evidence. New medical evidence is a report from a health professional requested by DWP which recommended the enhanced rate of the mobility award.
This is because we should not have told you it could not be increased because you had reached your State Pension age - you may have got more money. DWP also said if you are getting PIP now, they will not reduce your award because of this change. However, it added it cannot look again at any decisions made by a tribunal.
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