exempt from the personal capability assessment
You are exempt from the personal capability assessment if you are in one of the following catagories:
In receipt of the highest rate care component of Disability Living Allowance
are assessed as 80% disabled - for war pension, industrial injury or severe disablement allowance purposes
are terminally ill with 6 months or less to live
are tetraplegic
are paraplegic or have virtual paraplegia due to uncontrollable involuntary movements or ataxia
are in a persistent vegetative state
are suffering from dementia
are registered blind
have severe learning disability - defined as a condition which results from the arrested or incomplete physical development of the brain, or severe damage to the brain, and which involves severe impairment of intelligence and social functioning
have severe and progressive neurological or muscle wasting disease
have a progressive impairment of cardio-respiratory function
have dense paralysis of upper limb, trunk, and lower limb on one side of the body
have multiple effects of impairment of the function of the brain or nervous system causing severe and irreversible motor, sensory and intellectual deficits
have severe mental illness - defined as involving the presence of mental disease which severely and adversely affects a person's mood or behaviour, and which severely restricts their social functioning, or the awareness of their immediate environment
have manifestations of severe and progressive immune deficiency states characterised by the occurrence of severe constitutional illness or opportunistic infections or tumour formation
have active and progressive polyarthritis
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