Prescribed Disabilities (Info)

A person has a prescribed disability if any of the following descriptions apply

• When standing they cannot keep their balance unless they continually hold onto something

• Using any crutches, walking frame, walking stick, prosthesis or similar walking aid which they habitually use, they cannot walk a continuous 100 metres along level ground without stopping or without suffering severe pain

• They can use neither hand behind their back as in the process of putting on a jacket or tucking a shirt or blouse into a waistband

• They can extend neither arm in front of them so as to shake hands with another person without difficulty

• They can put neither of their hands up to their head without difficulty so as to put on a hat

• Due to lack of manual dexterity, they cannot pick up with one hand a coin which is less than 2.5 centimetres in diameter

• They are not able to use their hands or arms to pick up a full 1 litre jug and pour from it into a cup, without difficulty

• They can turn neither hand sideways through 180 degrees

• They are registered as blind or partially sighted in a register compiled by a Local Authority or in Scotland, have been certified as blind or partially sighted and in consequence registered as such in a register maintained by or on behalf of a council constituted under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994, or in Northern Ireland are registered as blind in a register maintained by or on behalf of a Health or Social Services Board

• They cannot see to read 16 point print further than 20 centimetres away wearing the glasses they normally use

• They cannot hear a telephone ring (when in the same room as the telephone) wearing any hearing aid they normally use

• In a quiet room they have difficulty in hearing what someone (talking in a loud voice at a distance of 2 metres) says wearing any hearing aid they normally use

• People who know the claimant well have difficulty in understanding what they are saying

• When a person they know well speaks to them, they have difficulty in understanding what that person says

• At least once a year during waking hours they are in a coma or have a fit in which they lose consciousness

• They have a mental illness for which they receive regular treatment under the supervision of a medically qualified person

• Due to mental disability they are often confused or forgetful

• They cannot do the simplest addition and subtraction

• Due to mental disability they strike people or damage property or are unable to form normal social relationships

• They cannot normally sustain an 8 hour working day or a 5 day working week due to a medical condition, or intermittent or continuous severe pain

• For initial claim only, as a result of an illness or accident, they are undergoing a period of habilitation or rehabilitation

Note: An initial claim is a claim from someone who has not been paid the disability element of WTC, or DPTC in the last two years