Adult Disability Payment: Service Level Agreement between The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Scottish Ministers

Annex 19 - Glossary of Terms

The Glossary defines various words, abbreviations and phrases which have specific meanings in the context of this Agreement. Unless otherwise provided or the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings set out below.

AA

Attendance Allowance

ADP

Adult Disability Payment

BASRiS

Benefit AssesSMent for Special Rules in Scotland

BAU

Business as Usual

Commencement Date of ADP

The date in 2022 on which delivery of ADP Services commenced

DLA WA

Disability Living Allowance Working Age

DWP

Department for Work and Pensions

EESSI

Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information

FoI(A)

Freedom of Information Act 2000

FoI(S)A

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

GSL

Genuine Sufficient Link

GUID

Global Unique Identifier

Linking Awards

Linking Awards is where entitlement to the new claim is based on previous awards to qualifying benefit

MoU

Memorandum of Understanding

PIP

Personal Independence Payment

Public and Privilege holidays

All public and privilege dates in England and Scotland including regional specific dates in Social Security Scotland Agency.

Resident in Scotland

Ordinarily resident in Scotland or either in the EEA or Switzerland with a genuine and sufficient link to Scotland.

Service Delivery Standards

The service delivery standards to be met by DWP for the delivery of the Services as set out at Para 8.

Services

Has the meaning set out in Para 2

SG

Scottish Government

SLA

Service Level Agreement

SM

Scottish Ministers

SM/SSWP Single MoU

Memorandum of Understanding between Scottish Ministers and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions dated January 2023 as amended.

SPA

State Pension Age

SPoC

Single Point of Contact

SRTI

Special Rules Terminally Ill

SSWP

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Term

Has the meaning set out in Para 3

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UK GDPR

UK General Data Protection Regulations

WA

Working Age