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Section 1 - Disability Assistance in Scotland

1. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal to name Disability Assistance for clients aged 0-18 years old Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (DACYP)?

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2. If you disagreed, please could you explain why.

I believe a person is an adult at aged 16. The title is fine but the age is wrong.

3. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal to name Disability Assistance for clients aged 16 years old to state pension age Disability Assistance for Working-Age People (DAWAP)?

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5. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal to name Disability Assistance for clients who are state pension age or older Disability Assistance for Older People (DAOP)?

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7. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal to enable multiple application channels for Disability Assistance?

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8. If you disagreed, please could you explain why.

I don't know what this means

9. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal to broadly replicate the current temporary absence rules?

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10. If you disagreed, please could you explain why?

I don't know what these rules are.

11. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal to implement a person-centred approach to making decisions about entitlement for Disability Assistance?

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13. Do you agree or disagree with our proposed approach to the involvement of Specialist Advisors in Decision Making?

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15. What factors should Case Managers take into account in deciding when a Specialist Advisor should be involved?

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16. Do you agree or disagree that the decision making process for Disability Assistance for Children and Young People, and for Older People should use existing supporting information and not through face-to-face assessments?

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17. If you disagreed, please could you explain why.

There are occasions when face to face might be required but this should not be standard.

18. What types of supporting information would be relevant in assessing an application for Disability Assistance eg. social work report, medical report?

Medical report.

19. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal to have no set award durations but to set an award review date when a decision on a Disability Assistance application is made?

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20. If you disagreed, please could you explain why.

People should have clear expectations about what the process will require of them, additionally, another layer of decision making slows down decision making.

21. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal to set an award review date 5-10 years in the future for a person with a condition unlikely to change?

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23. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal that a change of circumstances should be defined as a change which has an impact on the level of assistance a person receives?

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25. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal that clients have 31 days to request a redetermination?

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27. We have proposed that Social Security Scotland have a period of between 40 and 60 days to consider a redetermination of Disability Assistance. Do you agree or disagree with this proposal?

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29. Do you agree or disagree that STA should not be paid to people who are not living or present in Scotland?

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30. If you disagreed, please could you explain why.

This would place restrictions on the movement of disabled people not experienced by the non disabled population.

31. Do you agree or disagree that STA should not be recoverable except where it is later established that the principal assistance type was claimed fraudulently when STA was awarded?

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33. Do you agree or disagree that STA should not be available where an investigation by Social Security Scotland has determined that the original payment was claimed fraudulently?

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35. Do you agree or disagree that any deductions being made from an on-going assistance type to service an overpayment liability should also be applied to STA?

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37. Do you agree or disagree that for successful process decision appeals where the tribunal has overturned Social Security Scotland’s decision, STA should become available at the point the decision is overturned rather than the date of the original request?

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38. If you disagreed, please could you explain why.

The question is unintelligible.

39. Do you agree or disagree with the proposed approach that, generally, where there is a break in a client’s eligibility to receive the benefit, eg. due to being in residential care, they will cease to receive the benefit?

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40. If you disagreed, please could you explain why.

If you are disabled you are entitled, where you choose to live is no concern of the government.

41. Please outline any comments or experience you would like to share with us about overpayment recovery and the current DWP approach to deductions?

None.

Section 2 – Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (DACYP)

42. Do you agree or disagree with our proposal to provide entitlement to Disability Assistance for Children and Young People to clients aged 0-18 years?

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43. If you disagreed, please could you explain why.

People are adults at age 16 and should be regarded as such by this legislation.

44. Do you agree or disagree with our proposal to extending eligibility, for those in receipt of Disability Assistance for Children and Young People before the age of 16, to age 18?

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45. If you disagreed, please could you explain why.

People are adults at age 16.

46. Do you agree or disagree with our approach to the eligibility rules for the different components of Disability Assistance for Children and Young People?

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48. Do you agree or disagree with the proposal to make a £200 Winter Heating Assistance payment to families in receipt of the highest rate care component of Disability Assistance for Children and Young People?

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Section 3 - Disability Assistance for Working Age People (DAWAP)

50. Do you agree or disagree with our proposal to use a points based system to assess eligibility in relation to Disability Assistance for Working-Age People?

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52. Do you have any suggestions about the most appropriate way to assess eligibility in relation to mobility for Disability Assistance for Working- Age People?

Medical reports.

53. Do you have any comments on the full list of descriptors (provided at page 36) currently used to assess claims for Personal Independence Payments?

No

54. What types of observations, as part of a face to face assessment, do you believe are inappropriate?

Haven't read the guidlines

55. In relation to assessments, what are your views on acceptable distances to travel?

1 hour standard commute should be maximum and physical accessibility is paramount.

56. What other circumstances should the Agency take into account?

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57. In relation to assessments, how many times to do you think an individual should be able to reschedule, or fail to attend, an appointment?

3

58. In relation to a missed assessment, do you have any comments on what should amount to exceptional circumstances (e.g. hospital admissions)?

No. But people should be able to provide some sort of evidence.

59. Please provide any comments you wish to make about the audio recording of assessments.

Claimants should be free to record their interviews.

Section 4 - Disability Assistance for Older People (DAOP)

60. Do you agree or disagree with our proposal that Disability Assistance for Older People is provided to those who are state pension age or older?

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62. Do you agree or disagree with the proposed eligibility criteria for Disability Assistance for Older People?

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