Health conditions that could see you collect an extra £400 a month - see full list of 58 according to DWP

Brits living with disabilities could be entitled to an extra £400 a month in additional benefits. Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is given to people with disabilities such as mobility issues or those who require certain types of care.

In the last 10 years, DLA has been slowly replaced by other disability payments, including personal independence payments (PIP) and attendance allowance. Despite this, over one million people still reportedly claim DLA.

According to the UK government, you could qualify for the care component of DLA if you:

• need help with things like washing, dressing, eating, using the toilet or communicating your needs
• need supervision to avoid putting yourself or others in danger
• need someone with you when you’re on dialysis
• cannot prepare a cooked main meal

Official guidance from the Department for Work and Pensions says there are 57 main medical conditions that could qualify you for DLA. They are:

1. Arthritis
2. Spondylosis
3. Back pain – other/precise diagnosis not specified
4. Disease of the muscles, bones or joints
5. Trauma to limbs
6. Visual disorders and diseases
7. Hearing disorders
8. Heart disease
9. Respiratory disorders and diseases
10. Asthma
11. Cystic fibrosis
12. Cerebrovascular disease
13. Peripheral vascular disease
14. Epilepsy
15. Neurological diseases
16. Multiple sclerosis
17. Parkinson’s disease
18. Motor neurone disease
19. Chronic pain syndromes
20. Diabetes mellitus
21. Metabolic disease
22. Traumatic paraplegia/tetraplegia
23. Major trauma other than traumatic paraplegia/tetraplegia
24. Learning difficulties
25. Psychosis
26. Psychoneurosis
27. Personality Disorder
28. Dementia
29. Behavioural disorder
30. Alcohol and drug abuse
31. Hyperkinetic syndrome
32. Renal disorders
33. Inflammatory bowel disease
34. Bowel and stomach disease
35. Blood disorders
36. Haemophilia
37. Multi-system disorders
38. Multiple allergy syndrome
39. Skin disease
40. Malignant disease
41. Severely mentally impaired
42. Double amputee
43. Deaf/blind
44. Haemodialysis
45. Frailty
46. Total parenteral nutrition
47. AIDS
48. Infectious diseases: viral disease - Covid-19
49. Infectious diseases: viral disease - precise diagnosis not specified
50. Infectious diseases: bacterial disease – tuberculosis
51. Infectious diseases: bacterial disease – precise diagnosis not specified
52. Infectious diseases: protozoal disease – malaria
53. Infectious diseases: protozoal disease – other/precise diagnosis not specified
54. Infectious diseases - other / precise diagnosis not specified
55. Cognitive disorder - other / precise diagnosis not specified
56. Terminally Ill
57. Unknown