Adult Disability Payment is set to replace Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for new claimants in three more council areas next week following its launch in Dundee City, Perth and Kinross and the Western Isles in March.
The rollout of the new benefit means that people of working are with a disability, long-term illness or physical or mental health condition, living in Angus, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire will be able to apply for disability assistance to Social Security Scotland instead of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for PIP from Monday, June 20.
More than 313,0600 existing PIP claimants, including in the three council areas, will start to move from the DWP system to Social Security Scotland this year and do not need to do anything as their claim will automatically transfer from the DWP.
