Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Transitional Provisions and Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022: island communities impact assessment
The islands communities impact assessment (ICIA) considers the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Transitional Provisions and Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations in relation to their impacts on people living in the Islands under Section 8 of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018.
Footnotes
1. Islands (Scotland) Act 2018
2. Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018
3. Social Security Experience Panels - publications
4. A Consultation on Improving Disability Assistance in Scotland
5. See findings from DWP case transfer survey and Social Security Experience Panels – designing the benefits transfer process report
6. 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.
7. Scottish Ministersare 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.
8. Scottish Government (2018) Rural Scotland: key facts 2018
9. NRS (2015) Scotland's Census 2011: Inhabited islands report
11. NRS (2015) Scotland's Census 2011: Inhabited islands report
12. NRS (2015) Scotland's Census 2011: Inhabited islands report
13. Inhabited islands analytical report
14. Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Income and Benefits
15. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2015-18
16. Poverty in Perspective; a typology of poverty in Scotland (page 5)
17. Poverty in Perspective; a typology of poverty in Scotland (page 6)
18. The Impact of Covid-19 on Equality in Scotland (gov.scot)
19. Joseph Rowntree Foundation – Income and Benefits
20. Sutherland, F (2015) Remotely excluded: barriers facing Scotland's rural consumers CAS, Edinburgh, 36 pp
21. A Minimum Income Standard: For Remote rural Scotland; Loughborough University, UHI & Highlands and Islands Enterprise; 2013
22. A Minimum Income Standard for Remote Rural Scotland, 2013
23. Disability, Long term conditions and Poverty (an NPI report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
24. Sutherland, F (2015) Remotely excluded: barriers facing Scotland's rural consumers CAS, Edinburgh, 36pp
Contact
Email: Mhairi.Wilson@gov.scot
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