Over 57, 000 people in the UK receive a Disability Living Allowance due to blindness.
The bill would also replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) with a personal independence payment.
The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will replace the existing Disability Living Allowance (DLA) in April.
The false payments related to disability living allowance, carer's allowance, tax credits and housing and council tax benefit.
Changes to Disability Living Allowance (DLA) are expected to have the biggest impact on people in Northern Ireland.
The changes will impact on thousands in NI and affect disability living allowance, housing benefit and employment support.
All households with a disability living allowance claimant will be exempted from this measure, as would war widows.
The changes will impact on thousands in Northern Ireland and affect disability living allowance, housing benefit and employment support.
The new bill will include changes to payments such as housing benefit, Jobseeker's allowance and disability living allowance (DLA).
People on Disability Living Allowance (and the Personal Independence Payment replacing it) will be among those exempt from the cap.
The bill replaces the Disability Living Allowance and tax credits with a disability addition on top of the new universal credit.
The new benefit will replace the existing disability living allowance in April.
Disability Living Allowance will start to be replaced for new claimants in the north of England from today by the Personal Independence Payment.
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These included disability living allowance and carers' allowance, as well as child tax credits claimed by falsely saying other children were living with her.
Most of the panellists expressed concerns about the loss of passported benefits, which arise at present if a person is awarded Disability Living Allowance.
The disability living allowance (DLA) is being replaced with Personal Independence Payments (PIP), which require up-front medical tests and regular health re-assessments for claimants.
Disability living allowance, however, is expected to remain separate, with the new system allowing carers to take part-time or short-term work without losing their benefits.
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The government has already delayed a proposal to remove money designed to fund travel for disabled people in residential care from the existing Disability Living Allowance.
The changes will impact on thousands of people in Northern Ireland, affecting those in receipt of payments such as disability living allowance, housing benefit and employment support.
Monday's vote was the latest in a series of defeats for the government's flagship Welfare Reform Bill - peers also voted down changes to ESA and Disability Living Allowance.
There are now 3.2m people claiming Disability Living Allowance.
It mustered a 16 vote majority against Crossbencher Lady Grey Thompson's amendment calling for an independent study and pilot programmes before the new Personal Independence Payment for disabled people replaces Disability Living Allowance.
He said there were already exemptions to the cap - such as families in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Working Tax Credit - and outlined "transitional arrangements" to minimise the impact.
Peers rejected a proposals to require a new assessment regime for Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to be trialled before it is rolled out to all two million claimants, by 229 votes to 213, majority 16.
It also introduces tougher sanctions for those who refuse work and replaces the disability living allowance with a new Personal Independence Payment, which requires claimants to go through regular assessments of how their condition affects them.
The UK government has said the Welfare Reform Bill would save billions of pounds by replacing Disability Living Allowance with a personal independence payment and replacing a range of other benefits with a single universal credit.
The report also warns that because there are both more people with MS in Wales unemployed and more of them receiving disability living allowance (DLA), Wales would be "disproportionately hit" by UK government changes to welfare benefits.
The bill also introduces tougher sanctions for those who refuse work and replaces the disability living allowance with a new Personal Independence Payment, which requires claimants to go through regular assessments of how their condition affects them.
Peers voted by 246 to 230, majority of 16, to reject plans to cut some of the benefits given to children on the lower rate of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), during third reading of the Welfare Reform Bill on 31 January 2012.
We Are Spartacus, an online campaign group about disabled people's views on the welfare system, analysed figures from the Department for Work and Pensions and Motability, the organisation that supplies lease cars and specialist converted vehicles to disabled people claiming the highest mobility rate of Disability Living Allowance.
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