Timescale for handling Adult Disability Payment applications: FOI release
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
FOI Reference: FOI/202300382737
Date received: 4 October 2023
Date responded: 1 November 2023
Your request
Policies and procedures regarding timescales of adult disability payments being looked at.
Response to your request
Our commitment in Our Charter is to handle clients’ applications and enquiries as quickly as we can. A link to Our Charter is below:
https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/reporting/publications/our-charter
For applications where Special Rules for Terminal Illness apply, these are processed in a different way and we aim to deal with these within 7 working days.
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