Publication - Impact assessment

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

Published: 19 May 2022
Directorate: Social Security Directorate
Topic: Communities and third sector, Equality and rights, Money and tax
ISBN: 9781804354483

The equality impact assessment (EQIA) considers potential effects of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Transitional Provisions and Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 and how it impacts on people with one or more protected characteristics.

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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 finding of DWP benefits case transfer survey and Social Security Experience Panels; designing the benefits case transfer process (gov.scot)

5. About the transitional support package | Motability Scheme

6. Scottish Surveys Core Questions 2019 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

7. papworth-trust-disability-facts-and-figures-2018.pdf

8. Social Security, Gender and Covid-19 - Womens Budget Group (wbg.org.uk)

9. The Covid-19 outbreak and gender (un.org)

10. What do we want from the Government at Holyrood (engender.org.uk)

11. The Scottish LGBT Equality Report — Equality Network (equality-network.org)