'Barbaric, cruel and discriminatory'. That’s how a mum living with Multiple Sclerosis has described a new rule, proposed by the Scottish Government, which disqualifies anyone who can walk further than 20m from the higher rate of mobility benefits.
Amy Newton, who was diagnosed 11 years ago with relapsing remitting MS, is backing the MS Society Scotland’s call for the scrapping of the 20-metre rule – part of the new Adult Disability Payment (ADP) assessment process.
It comes as charity MS Society Scotland renews its plea for the “arbitrary and nonsensical measure of mobility” to be dropped from the new benefits scheme, which started to replace Personal Independent Payment (PIP) in Scotland last summer.
