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The Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025: equality impact assessment
The equality impact assessment (EQIA) considers potential impacts of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025 on individuals with one or more protected characteristics.
4. The Scope of the Equality Impact Assessment
This Equality Impact Assessment considers the impact of introducing Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance on disabled people, many of whom are over the State Pension age and have one or more other protected characteristic. State Pension age is currently 66 years of age, and is planned to gradually increase to 67 years of age by 2028.[16]
Data Sources
- Scottish Health Survey
- Scotland's census 2011
- NRS Mid-year population estimates
- Social Security Experience Panel findings
- Responses to the Consultation on Disability Assistance in Scotland
- Advice from the Disability and Carer Benefits Expert Advisory Group
- Department for Work and Pensions Stat-Xplore statistics
- Statistics and Projections from the Scottish Government's Communities Analysis Division
- Scottish Government and Social Security Scotland publications
- Third Sector Publications
Contact
Email: beth.stanners@gov.scot
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