Social Security Scotland recently announced work is underway to speed up processing times for Adult and Child Disability Payment applications, two new devolved benefits which have now replaced new claims for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance for Children (DLA for Child) for people living in Scotland.
Scotland’s devolved welfare agency said the “majority of people will receive a decision within four months” but added processing times can vary from a “few weeks to six months” in a small number of “very complex cases”. The current end-to-end processing time for PIP, delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is now 14 weeks.
New figures released by Social Security Scotland show that, “the median average processing time for applications has increased every month since the Adult Disability Payment national launch, from 45 working days in September 2022 to 79 working days in January 2023”.
