Apply for Disability Living Allowance

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a benefit you can get if you need help getting around and/or looking after yourself because you are ill, disabled or terminally ill. You can also claim Disability Living Allowance for an ill or disabled child.

How to use this service

Use the links below to claim Disability Living Allowance online on the Department for Social Development website, download and complete a claim form or contact the Social Security Agency for a claim form.

Claim Online

You can claim Disability Living Allowance online.

• Benefits and Services online

Download a form

Help for people under the age of 65 with a disability if you are over the age of 16

• DLA 1A Adult claim form (PDF 109KB)
• DLA 1A Adult notes (PDF 54KB)
• DLA flyer (PDF 109KB)
• Help with PDF files

If you are claiming for a child under the age of 16

• DLA Child claim form (PDF 376KB)
• DLA 1A Child notes (PDF 252KB)
• Contact Disability and Carers Service

You make a claim by printing out a claim form and filling it in. When you have filled in the form you can either:

• post it to the office whose details are shown on the form, or
• hand it in at your nearest Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office
• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)

Important: The date the claim form is received in a Social Security Agency office is the date we can consider payment from - not the date you downloaded the claim form.

Ask for a form

You can get Disability Living Allowance forms from the Social Security Agency.  Contact one of their offices.

• Disability and Carers Service (contacts section)
• Benefit Enquiry Line (contacts section)
• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)
• Benefit Shop Castle Court (contacts section)

More useful links

• Disability Living Allowance (people with disabilities section)
• Financial support (people with disabilities section)