The Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022

Change of Circumstances

12.—(1) The Scottish Ministers must make a determination of an individual’s entitlement to Adult Disability Payment (“the review determination”), without receiving an application, where—

(a) the individual—

(i) before receiving a notice under paragraph 8(1), reported a change of circumstances to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which had not been taken into account for the individual’s entitlement to Personal Independence Payment, or

(ii) has, since receiving a notice under paragraph 8(1), notified a change of circumstances to the Scottish Ministers,

(b) the Scottish Ministers have made a determination under paragraph 9(1) (“the transfer determination”), and

(c) the individual has not requested a re-determination under section 41 of the 2018 Act, or an appeal under section 46 of the 2018 Act, in relation to the transfer determination.

(2) The review determination is to be made as soon as reasonably practicable after the transfer determination.

(3) The change of circumstance notified under sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) is not to be regarded as relating to the individual’s entitlement to Personal Independence Payment, and

(b) is to be taken into consideration by the Scottish Ministers in making the review determination.

(4) Where a transferring individual’s entitlement to Adult Disability Payment is determined in the review determination to be at a higher rate than the transfer determination, entitlement will begin—

(a) if the individual notifies the change—

(i) within one month of the change occurring, the date when the individual first satisfies the requirements for a higher rate of the care or mobility component,

(ii) within more than one month but not more than 13 months of the change occurring, the date when the individual first satisfies the requirements for a higher rate of the care or mobility component, but only if the Scottish Ministers consider that the individual had good reason for not notifying the change within one month,

(iii) in any other case, from the date of notification of the change, or

(b) if the date under sub-paragraph 4(a) is before these Regulations come into force, the date that these Regulations come into force.

(5) Where a transferring individual’s entitlement to Adult Disability Payment is determined in the review determination to be at a lower rate than or at the same rate as awarded by the transfer determination, entitlement under the review determination will take effect on the day that the Scottish Ministers make the review determination.

(6) Where an individual has previously received Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment for a period and a review determination is subsequently made that the same individual is entitled to Adult Disability Payment at a higher rate for that period by virtue of this paragraph, that individual will be entitled to the difference between the value of entitlement to Adult Disability Payment under the review determination and the value of Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment to which that individual was previously entitled for that period.