Adult Disability Payment: Independent Review - interim report

Footnotes

1 Equality Act 2010, s. 6 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/6

2 Adult Disability Payment: high level statistics to 31 July 2024 (2024), Social Security Scotland, https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/reporting/publications/adult-disability-payment-high-level-statistics-to-31-july-2024

3 Mid-Year Population Estimates (March 2024), National Records of Scotland, https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates/mid-year-population-estimates/mid-2022

4 Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (as amended) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/9/contents

5 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, United Nations, https://social.desa.un.org/issues/disability/crpd/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities-articles

6 Ibid, Article 19: https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities/article-19-living-independently-and-being-included-in-the-community.html

7 A Fairer Scotland for Disabled People: delivery plan (2016), https://www.gov.scot/publications/fairer-scotland-disabled-people-delivery-plan-2021-united-nations-convention/

8 Adult Disability Payment - mobility component: consultation analysis (2023), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/adult-disability-payment-consultation-mobility-component-analysis-responses/

9 Disability benefits evaluation: supporting information (2023), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/disability-benefits-evaluation-supporting-information/

10 Case Transfer Evaluation (2023), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/disability-benefits-evaluation-case-transfer/

11 Social Security Scotland: Our Charter https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/about/our-charter

12 Social Security Charter Review: research findings (2024), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/reviewing-charter-research-findings/pages/1/

13 Social Security Charter: Measurement Framework (2019), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/measuring-charter-social-security-scotland-scottish-government-delivering-charter-promised/

14 Social Security Scotland – Measuring Our Charter 2022-23 (2023), Social Security Scotland, https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/reporting/publications/measuring-our-charter-2022-2023

15 Disability Price Tag 2023: extra costs of disability (2023), SCOPE, https://www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/extra-costs/disability-price-tag-2023

16 Understanding the drivers of food insecurity among disabled people: A rapid evidence review (2023), Biggs, H., Wildman, J., Hamid. A, and MacGregor, A., Scottish Centre for Social Research non behalf of The Trussell Trust, https://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Disability-and-Financial-Hardship-Evidence-Review-2023.pdf (Accessed: 6 September 2024)

17 Costly Differences: Living standards for working age people with disabilities (2023) El Dessouky, O., McCurdy, C., Resolution Foundation, https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/costly-differences/ (Accessed: 6 September 2024)

18 Disability and financial hardship: How disability benefits contribute to the need for food banks in the UK (2023), Biggs, H., Wildman, J., Hamid, A. and MacGregor, A., Scottish Centre for Social Research on behalf of The Trussell Trust, https://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/Disability-Benefits-Research-Report.pdf (Accessed: 6 September 2024)

19 Ibid.

20 Additional costs of disability in Scotland: Understanding the available data and how this relates to personal experiences of disability (2024) McFadyen, C and Robertson, L. Fraser of Allander Institute. https://www.parliament.scot/~/media/committ/7962/Note-by-the-Clerk--Paper-4

21 International Comparison of Disability Benefits (2018), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/foi-eir-release/2018/07/foi-18-01623/documents/foi-18-01632-international-comparison-disability-benefits-report-pdf/foi-18-01632-international-comparison-disability-benefits-report-pdf/govscot%3Adocument/FOI-18-01632%2B-%2BInternational%2BComparison%2Bof%2BDisability%2BBenefits%2B-%2BReport.pdf

22 Inclusion London has produced a helpful background summary on its website relating to the social model of disability, https://www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/about-us/disability-in-london/social-model/the-social-model-of-disability-and-the-cultural-model-of-deafness/

23 Meeting with Glasgow Disability Alliance, 13 September 2024

24 Disability Living Allowance reform: Public Consultation (2010), Department for Work and Pensions, https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/disability-living-allowance-reform

25 Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, s. 1(h)

26 Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts (2023), Scottish Fiscal Commission, https://fiscalcommission.scot/publications/scotlands-economic-and-fiscal-forecasts-december-2023/

27 Fiscal Update – August 2024, Scottish Fiscal Commission - https://fiscalcommission.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Fiscal-Update-%E2%80%93-August-2024.pdf

28 Forecast Evaluation Report – August 2024, Scottish Fiscal Commission, https://fiscalcommission.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Forecast-Evaluation-Report-%E2%80%93-August-2024.pdf

29 Forecast Evaluation Report – August 2024, Scottish Fiscal Commission, https://fiscalcommission.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Forecast-Evaluation-Report-%E2%80%93-August-2024.pdf

30 Ibid.

31 Fiscal Update – August 2024 (2024), Scottish Fiscal Commission, https://fiscalcommission.scot/publications/fiscal-update-august-2024/Ibid.

32 People who Access Social Care and Unpaid Carers in Scotland, (2022), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/research-and-analysis/2022/06/national-care-service-people-access-adult-social-care-unpaid-carers-scotland/documents/people-access-social-care-unpaid-carers-scotland/people-access-social-care-unpaid-carers-scotland/govscot%3Adocument/people-access-social-care-unpaid-carers-scotland.pdf

33 Social Security policy position paper – disability benefit applications: how decisions are made (2020), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/decision-made-disability-benefit-application/

34 Beyond a Safe and Secure Transfer Advice (2023), Disability and Carer Benefits Expert Advisory Group Advice, https://www.gov.scot/publications/disability-carer-benefits-expert-advisory-group-beyond-safe-secure-transfer/

35 Modernising Support for independent living: the health and disability green paper (2024), UK Government, https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/modernising-support-for-independent-living-the-health-and-disability-green-paper/modernising-support-for-independent-living-the-health-and-disability-green-paper

36 A Fairer Scotland for Disabled People, ibid.

37 Case Transfer Policy Position Paper (2019), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/social-security-case-transfer-policy-position-paper/

38 https://cpag.org.uk/what-we-do/our-campaigns/scottish-campaign-rights-social-security

39 Adult Disability Payment: high level statistics to 31 July 2024, ibid.

40 Client Survey: Disability Payments (January – Mar 2024), Social Security Scotland, https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/reporting/publications/client-survey-disability-payments-january-march-2024

41 Ibid.

42 Ibid.

43 Meeting with Glasgow Disability Alliance, 13 September 2024

43 Social Security Scotland Business Plan 2024-25 (2024), Social Security Scotland, https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/reporting/publications/business-plan-2024-2025

45 Welfare Advice and Health Partnerships Test and Learn Programme: What we have learned so far (2024), Scottish Government and the Improvement Service, https://www.improvementservice.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/53586/WAHP-Test-and-Learn-Programme-Evaluation.pdf

46 Telephony and Webchat Management Information – Statistics to March (2024), Social Security Scotland, https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/reporting/publications/telephony-and-webchat-management-information-statistics-to-march-2024

47 Business Plan 2024-25, ibid.

48 Personal Independence Payment: Official Statistics to July 2024 (2024), Department for Work and Pensions, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-statistics-to-july-2024 [This data covers England and Wales only.]

49 Ibid.

50 Meeting with The Wise Group, 11 July 2024

51 Ibid.

52 Ibid.

53 Mandatory reconsideration and appeals (2014), Work and Pensions Select Committee, https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmworpen/302/30209.htm#a31

54 Adult Disability Payment Statistics to 30 April 2024 (2024), Social Security Scotland, https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/asset-storage/production/downloads/Adult-Disability-Payment-to-30-April-2024-Publication.pdf

55 Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill (as introduced), Scottish Parliament, https://www.parliament.scot/bills-and-laws/bills/social-security-amendment-scotland-bill/introduced

56 Policy Memorandum, Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill (2024), Scottish Parliament, https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/s6-bills/social-security-amendment-scotland-bill/introduction/policy-memorandum-accessible.pdf

57 Telephone and Webchat Management Information – Statistics to March 2024 (2024), Social Security Scotland, https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/reporting/publications/telephony-and-webchat-management-information-statistics-to-march-2024

58 Client’s Experience of Re-determination and Appeals: Submission by Citizen’s Advice Scotland (2024), https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/social-justice-and-social-security-committee/client-experience-of-social-security-scotland/citizens-advice-scotland-cas-the-experience-of-challenging-social-security-scotland-delivered-benefi.pdf

59 Social Security Experience Panels – Adult Disability Payment: mobility component eligibility criteria (2023), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/social-security-experience-panels-adult-disability-payment-mobility-component-eligibility-criteria/

60 Why Adult Disability Payment needs a “substantial risk” component, (2024), Citizens Advice Scotland, https://www.cas.org.uk/system/files/publications/primer_adp_and_substantial_risk_08.24.pdf

61 Adult Disability Payment - mobility component: consultation analysis (2023), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/adult-disability-payment-consultation-mobility-component-analysis-responses/

62 Adult Disability Payment – consultation on the eligibility criteria for the mobility component (2023), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/adult-disability-payment-consultation-mobility-component/

63 Meeting with clinically vulnerable people and those representing people with ME and Long Covid, 12 July 2024

64 Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991, reg. 1(a)(ii), https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2890/regulation/12

65 Personal Independence Payment: 2nd draft assessment regulations (2012), Department for Work and Pensions, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7b65c4e5274a319e77f05c/pip-second-draft-assessment-regulations.pdf

66 PIP assessment thresholds and consultation – Government response (2012), Department for Work and Pensions, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7a0388e5274a319e7773a8/pip-assessment-thresholds-and-consultation-response.pdf

67 Various decisions have considered the issue and often conflict, but former Commissioners Decisions such as R(M) 5/86 held that an appellant who could only walk 50 yards in severe discomfort was likely to qualify.

68 Ibid.

69 Disability benefits evaluation: supporting information (2023), Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/disability-benefits-evaluation-supporting-information/

70 Ibid.

71 Ibid.

72 Ibid.

73 Ibid.

74 Meeting with Covid-related groups, 12 July 2024

75 Fragile X Society Conference, April 2024

76 Social Security Scotland Business Plan 2024-25 (2024), Social Security Scotland, https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/reporting/publications/business-plan-2024-2025