The Scottish Government is reminding thousands of people on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) waiting to transfer from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) system to Social Security Scotland that they do not need to do anything before the move. Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville reassured claimants that “there will not be any gaps or changes to your payments”. The advice came after it was confirmed that Scotland’s devolved benefits agency has now taken control of more than 200,000 cases of disabled people from the UK Government.
Figures released last month show 207,295 people were receiving Adult Disability Payments (ADP) from Social Security Scotland at the end of July. A total of £1.57 billion has been paid out in ADP since it started replacing PIP in March 2022 and is a benefit designed to treat people with “dignity, fairness and respect”.
Just over 2,000 of those transferred were receiving DLA for Adults . The latest figures from the DWP show that 126,296 people in Scotland are still receiving PIP, however, all cases and DLA claimants are due to be transferred to the devolved payment by the end of 2025. Commenting recently on the migration progress, Ms Somerville said: “This is an important milestone in the devolution of benefits to Scotland.
People who received DWP benefits talked about the system being inhumane. “They had experienced a system which did not get the decision right the first time an.