DWP axing benefit in 13 areas from next month - with new payment replacing it

Pension Age Disability Payment is replacing Attendance Allowance successful Scotland - it is worthy betwixt £72.65 and £108.55 a week

A caller benefit that is replacing Attendance Allowance successful Scotland is being rolled retired to 13 much postcode areas from adjacent month.

Pension Age Disability Payment is worthy betwixt £72.65 and £108.55 a week and is paid to radical implicit state pension property who request other assistance due to the fact that of an unwellness oregon disability. The little complaint is awarded to radical who request assistance during the time oregon night, portion the higher complaint is for radical who request assistance during the time and night.

If you’re terminally sick you’ll automatically get the higher rate. Attendance Allowance is paid by the Department for Work and Pensions, but the caller Pension Age Disability Payment payment volition beryllium paid by Social Security Scotland. It has already replaced Attendance Allowance successful Argyll and Bute, Highland, Aberdeen City, Orkney and Shetland, but volition go disposable successful the pursuing places from March 24:

• Aberdeenshire
• East Ayrshire
• North Ayrshire
• South Ayrshire
• Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)
• Stirling
• Clackmannanshire
• Falkirk
• Fife
• Angus
• Dundee City
• Perth & Kinross
• Moray

Pension Age Disability Payment volition past beryllium rolled retired nationwide successful Scotland from April 22. If you assertion Attendance Allowance successful Scotland, you’ll beryllium automatically moved to Pension Age Disability Payment. Your payments won't beryllium disrupted and you won't request to interaction the DWP to person your payment stopped.

A leafage connected mygov.scot explains: "Pension Age Disability Payment is replacing Attendance Allowance successful Scotland. You bash not request to bash thing if you already get Attendance Allowance. You cannot get Pension Age Disability Payment and Attendance Allowance astatine the aforesaid time."

If you get Adult Disability Payment, you’ll enactment connected this erstwhile you scope authorities pension age. Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville said: “This caller payment has been developed by listening to older disabled radical and we person made galore changes, including making it easier for them to nominate idiosyncratic to enactment them successful their engagement with Social Security Scotland, thing they told america was important to them.

“I would promote anyone who thinks they are eligible for Pension Age Disability Payment to apply. It’s important they get the wealth they request to assistance them look aft themselves, enactment harmless and get enactment to unrecorded with the dignity and respect that we each merit arsenic we get older.”

Debbie Horne, Scotland Policy and Public Affairs Manager astatine Independent Age, said: “We anticipation changes made to the payment, specified arsenic making it simpler for radical astatine the extremity of their beingness to get support, effect successful an improved acquisition for older radical applying for the outgo successful Scotland.

“We promote each older radical surviving successful the aviator areas who whitethorn beryllium eligible for Pension Age Disability Payment to apply, oregon get successful interaction with an autarkic proposal service, specified arsenic Independent Age, who tin assistance to guarantee older radical successful Scotland person each of the enactment they are entitled to.”