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When a Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance award that was ended by an interim Adult Disability Payment determination is retroactively changed
There may be cases where an individual who was born on or after 8 April 1948 reports a change of circumstances to the Department for Work and Pensions relating to their Disability Living Allowance award, which triggers a transfer to Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance on a like-for-like basis. A review of the Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance award will then begin, taking the change into account, and a Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance review determination will be made which could change the award.
in the time between the Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance transfer determination and review determination, it is possible that someone could make an application for Adult Disability Payment. The interim Adult Disability Payment award in this situation would be based on the Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance award at the point of case transfer. When the Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance review determination is made, it could result in a Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance award which retroactively differs from the award the interim Adult Disability Payment award was based on, as set out in the example below. Where the Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance award is retroactively changed following the review determination, this will not change the interim Adult Disability Payment award the individual is receiving.
Example: Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance award is retroactively changed after an award of interim Adult Disability Payment
Ryan receives Disability Living Allowance and has an award of the middle rate of the care component and the low rate of the mobility component. Ryan’s condition has deteriorated since he received this award and he reports a change of circumstances to the Department for Work and Pensions on 1 June 2025, which triggers a transfer to Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance. Ryan’s Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance award is made on a like-for-like basis, meaning his Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance award at the point of case transfer is the middle rate of the care component and the low rate of the mobility component, just as his Disability Living Allowance award was. Social Security Scotland send Ryan a review form to get further information about his condition, which Ryan completes and returns.
After Ryan’s Disability Living Allowance award has transferred to Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance, he speaks to an independent advisor and decides to submit an Adult Disability Payment application on 1 October 2025. His Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance award ends and he automatically receives an award of interim Adult Disability Payment that matches his Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance award – the standard rate of the daily living component and the standard rate of the mobility component of Adult Disability Payment – and Social Security Scotland will consider the information contained in his Adult Disability Payment application. To align payment cycles, Ryan’s Adult Disability Payment entitlement begins on 14 October 2025.
Social Security Scotland make a Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance review determination on 25 October 2025, using the information Ryan shared about his condition in his review form. This increases Ryan’s previous Scottish Adult DisabilityLiving Allowance award to the middle rate of the care component and the high rate of the mobility component. This increased award is made from 1 September, the first date Ryan would have qualified for an increased award (13 weeks after Ryan reported a change of circumstances to the Department for Work and Pensions), until 13 October 2025, the day before Ryan’s Adult Disability Payment entitlement began. Ryan continues to receive an interim Adult Disability Payment award for the standard rate of the daily living component and the standard rate of the mobility component.
On 1 December 2025, having considered the information Ryan provided in his Adult Disability Payment application and assessed this against the Adult Disability Payment criteria, Social Security Scotland make a review determination on Ryan’s entitlement to Adult Disability Payment. Ryan is awarded the enhanced rate of the daily living component and the enhanced rate of the mobility component. This increased award is backdated to 1 October 2025, the date Ryan’s Adult Disability Payment application is treated as made.
Ryan was therefore awarded Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance at the middle rate of the care component and the high rate of the mobility component from 1 September to 30 September, and the enhanced rate of the daily living component and the enhanced rate of the mobility component of Adult Disability Payment from 1 October. Ryan is paid the difference between what he has already been paid for this period and what he is now due as a result of the Adult Disability Payment review determination