Adult Disability Payment: Consultation on the Mobility Component

The Scottish Government's consultation on the mobility component of Adult Disability Payment (ADP) gives people the opportunity to give their views on the eligibility criteria. The findings will inform the independent review of Adult Disability Payment commencing later this year.


Footnotes

1 Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts (December 2022), Scottish Fiscal Commission

2 The agreement between the Scottish Government and UK Government on the Scottish Government’s Fiscal Framework (2016)

3 Social Security Charter

4 Scottish Fiscal Commission, Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts, December 2022, Chapter 5, Social Security

5 Scotland Act 2016

6 Consultation on Social Security in Scotland (2016)

7 Disability and Carer Benefits Expert Advisory Group website

8 Engagement on Social Security (www.gov.scot)

9 Consultation on Disability Assistance (2019)

10 Consultation on Adult Disability Payment Regulations (2020)

11 Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations, regulation 7(2)(b)

12 Alldridge, P. (2019) ‘On Being Able to Walk Twenty Metres: The Introduction of Personal Independence Payments’, Journal of Law & Society, 46(3), pp. 448–475

13 Ibid

14 Alldridge, P. (2019) ‘On Being Able to Walk Twenty Metres: The Introduction of Personal Independence Payments’, Journal of Law & Society, 46(3), pp. 448–475

15 Smith JA, Doolan E. The Social Impact of Accounting Processes on Benefit Claimants in the UK. J.Hum.Rights.Soc.Work 2020 5(2):64-77, UK Government’s response to the consultation on the PIP assessment “moving around” activity, p7 and (Oliver 1990, 1999; Tremain 2001, 2015).

16 Analysis of Responses to Consultation on Social Security (2016), Scottish Government

17 UK Government’s response to the consultation on the PIP assessment “moving around” activity, p13

18 Johnson, E., Spring, E. (2018) The Activity Trap: Disabled people’s fear of being active, Activity Alliance

19 Activity Alliance Annual Disability and Activity Survey (January 2020), Activity Alliance and IFF Research,

20 UK Government’s response to the consultation on the PIP assessment “moving around” activity, p7

21 Porter, T., Pearson, C., Watson, N. (2021) Evidence, objectivity and welfare reform: a qualitative study of disability benefits assessments, Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research Debate and Practice

22 Newton, S. 2018. Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations: Written question –

125263. Available at: on the UK Parliament website

23 SAMH (2016) Personal Independence Payment – What’s the problem?

24 Grant, E., et al. (2011), Scope, The Future of PIP: a social model-based approach

25 ibid.

26 Ibid.

27 Research Findings 10: Social Security Experience Panels: Personal Independence Payment Discovery – Visual Summary (www.gov.scot)

28 Feeling the benefit? Fluctuating illness and the world of welfare: Disability & Society: Vol 35, No 8 (tandfonline.com)

29 Young, S. (2021) How social security can deliver for disabled people in Scotland, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

30 ibid.

31 Research Findings 10: Social Security Experience Panels: Personal Independence Payment Discovery – Visual Summary (www.gov.scot)

32 ibid.

33 Advice on Disability Assistance for Working Age People, Disability and Carer Benefits Expert Advisory Group, December 2020

34 Regulation 7(4) of Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022

35 Scottish Government Response to advice from Disability and Carer Benefits Expert Advisory Group’s advice on integration of PIP Case Law, July 2020

36 Bickenbach et. al (2015), ‘Assessing Disability in Working Age Population A Paradigm Shift: from Impairment and Functional Limitation to the Disability Approach’, World Bank

37 Disability and Carer Benefits Expert Advisory Group (October 2022), Beyond a Safe and Secure Transfer

38 ibid.

39 Emergency Budget Review, Scottish Government, 2 November 2022

40 The agreement between the Scottish Government and the United Kingdom Government on the Scottish Government’s fiscal framework, February 2016

41 Official Report of the Social Justice and Social Security Committee, Scottish Parliament, 10 March 2022

Contact

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