Adult Disability Payment is a new benefit replacing Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for people living in Scotland and is scheduled to open for new applicants in Angus, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire on June 20.
The benefit opened in March to new claimants in Dundee, Perth and Kinross and the Western Isles. The next stage of the phased rollout will be in July for people in Fife, Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Moray, North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Ayrshire - if you live anywhere else in Scotland, you can make a new claim from August 29.
The new disability payment will also start to replace PIP for more than 305,000 existing claimants from that date too, and Social Security Scotland have assured people it will be a “safe and secure transfer process”.
