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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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01 Dec 2025
Chapter 61: Adult disability payment
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
Part 10: Scottish social security benefits
Chapter 61: Adult disability payment
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Chapter 61: Adult disability payment
Key facts
1. Who can get adult disability payment
The disability conditions
How the disability conditions are different
Differences in the wording of the daily living and mobility activities
The required period condition
The required period condition if you previously got a disability benefit
2. The rules about your age
Mobility component for older people
New claims after you reach pension age
If your award changes after you reach pension age
3. The amount of benefit
4. Special benefit rules
Terminal illness
Claims if you are terminally ill
When your entitlement starts if you are terminally ill
5. Claims and getting paid
Making a claim
When you do not need to make a claim
Who should claim
Information to support your claim
The required information
Assessment consultations
The date of your claim
Backdating your claim
If you claim the wrong benefit
Claiming in advance
Getting paid
Change of circumstances
Reviews of adult disability payment awards
Transfers to adult disability payment
Moving from personal independence payment to adult disability payment
Moving from disability living allowance to adult disability payment
6. Tax, other benefits and the benefit cap
Tax
Other benefits and tax credits
Non-means-tested benefits
The benefit cap
Passports and other sources of help
Motability
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CPAG. "Chapter 61: Adult disability payment." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed February 16, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266049CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Chapter 61: Adult disability payment." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed February 16, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266049CITANCHOR.
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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Publication date:
March 21, 2025
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February 16, 2026
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