Motions, questions and answers

The Scottish Government will begin accepting Adult Disability Payment (ADP) applications from new clients from spring 2022 and nationally from summer 2022. Existing Personal Independence Payment (PIP) clients will begin to have their entitlements transferred from the Department for Work and Pensions to Social Security Scotland, also from summer 2022. PIP clients will not have to apply for ADP and they will receive the same rate of ADP as they received for PIP at the point of transfer. They will continue to receive this amount until their ADP award is reviewed. The value of each component of ADP is the same as PIP so that we do not create a two-tier system with varying rules whilst Scottish disability benefit clients are transferred to Social Security Scotland.
The Scottish Fiscal Commission is responsible for forecasting spending on PIP and ADP. The Commission has not reported a breakdown of the proportion of the ADP clients in receipt of greater, the same, or lesser amount of financial assistance under ADP compared with what they receive from the Department for Work and Pensions.
For new applications, the Scottish Fiscal Commission assume that 25 per cent of clients who would have received a nil award under PIP will now receive the standard rate under ADP, and that 15 per cent of those who would have received a standard award under PIP will now receive an enhanced award under ADP.
Once clients are in receipt of ADP, the Scottish Fiscal Commission assume that the proportion of clients disallowed at award review will decrease from 19% to 5%. The decrease in the number of clients disallowed at award review reflects the substantial differences in the PIP and ADP award review process and the effect of rolling and client-centred ADP awards.