Adult Disability Payment – Statement

Inclusion Scotland welcomes the publication of the Independent Review of Adult Disability Payment and the opportunities the Review offered for Inclusion Scotland and disabled people to contribute to it. Inclusion Scotland support the review’s recommendations. We note that the review values disabled people’s rights by acknowledging the role of social security as an investment in wellbeing.

We hope that The Scottish Government takes these recommendations, which are informed by lived experience, seriously and commits to implementing them in collaboration with disabled people. The lived experience of disabled people is essential in any policy-making process, but especially important in the context of a social security system which has continuously failed disabled people in the past. We are the experts of our own lives and are therefore best placed to know what support we need.

Inclusion Scotland is pleased to see the Independent Review largely reflects this.   

Summary of recommendations of the Independent Review of Adult Disability Payment: Adult Disability Payment Statement Final

If you need more information or information in another format, please contact us on info@inclusionscotland.org or by calling 0131 370 6700.