Publication - Impact assessment

Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Transitional Provisions and Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022: business and regulatory impact assessment

Published: 19 May 2022
Directorate: Social Security Directorate
Topic: Business, industry and innovation, Communities and third sector, Equality and rights, +1 more … Money and tax
ISBN: 9781804354476

The business and regulatory impact assessment (BRIA) considers the impact of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Transitional Provisions and Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 on businesses, including the third sector.

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Footnotes

1. Working Age, in the context of this cohort, refers to those individuals in receipt of Disability Living Allowance who were under 65 in April 2013 when the transition from Disability Living Allowance to Personal Independence Payment began, even though many will now be over the state pension age.

2. Scottish Ministers are still considering how to transfer the awards for those to which these circumstances do not apply. The transfer process for these individuals will be provided for through separate regulations in due course.

3. Analysis of written responses to the consultation on social security in Scotland (gov.scot)

4. See findings from DWP benefits case transfer process survey and Social Security Experience Panels; designing the case transfer process (gov.scot)

5. Disability assistance in Scotland; consultation (gov.scot)

6. Scotland's Economic and Fiscal Forecasts February 2020 (Scottish Fiscal Commission)