The Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025: fairer Scotland duty assessment

The Fairer Scotland duty impact assessment summarises potential impacts of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025 on socio-economic inequality. It builds on, and should be read alongside with the equality impact assessment


Footnotes

1 Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018

2 Social Security Scotland Charter

3 Disability and Carers Benefits Expert Advisory Group

4 Ill Health and Disability Benefits Stakeholder Reference Group

5 Social Security Experience Panels: publications

6 Social Security Experience Panels: designing the benefits case transfer process

7 Scottish Health Survey

8 DWP Stat-Xplore

9 DWP Stat-Xplore

10 The Energy Penalty: disabled people and fuel poverty, 2013

11 Disability long term conditions and poverty, 2014

12 Social Security, Gender and Covid-19 – Women’s Budget Group

13 Disability and financial hardship: How disability benefits contribute to the need for food banks in the UK

14 Papworth Trust – Disability in the United Kingdom Facts and Figures 2018

15 COVID-19 response considerations for people with disabilities

16 Social Security Scotland - Translation and interpretation services available for benefits information

17 Disability Benefits Evaluation - Supporting Information

18 Guidance for Doctors and Nurses Completing Benefits Assessment Under Special Rules in Scotland (BASRiS) Form for Terminal Illness from the Chief Medical Officer

19 Social Security Scotland - New Independent Advocacy Service opens

20 Social Security - A Consultation on Disability Assistance in Scotland - Scottish Government response

21 Disability Assistance qualifying periods: policy position paper

22 Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to October 2023

23 UK welfare policy: impact on disabled people

24 Welfare reform: impact report on benefits for disabled people

Contact

Email: beth.stanners@gov.scot

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