Call for Evidence for the Independent Review of Adult Disability Payment - Awards without a review period - Scottish Government consultations

Awards without a review period

13. People may receive an Adult Disability Payment award without a review period (also known as an “indefinite award”) if their needs are highly unlikely to change in the future. In relation to Adult Disability Payment, do you have any evidence about:

How clearly the decision to make an indefinite award was explained?

Whether or not people understand why they have or have not been given an indefinite award?

What were people’s experience of having an indefinite award? This could include the impact that having an indefinite award has on people’s quality of life compared to people who have had a review period set.