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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.

Why only young people your disability lasts a life time and at the moment when you turn an adult in the current system you get no help then they stop your money and your left to rot or die.

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

When you are disabled or have a disability for life why separate people with age groups they all need support

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

Disabled or disability we are all in the same boat no need for lots of age related labels.

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

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

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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?

You can look conditions up on google do they really need specialist advisors.

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.

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

Your carer or the people you live with/doctors information/the person themselves.

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.

Because it affects people’s mobility cars and you need a minimum of three years.

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

Depends on your condition but 10 years minimum but a lifetime award for life time conditions should be implemented.

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

I agree but their is not enough assistance available for people as you could have to wait for a citizens advice appointment for months.

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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28. If you disagreed, please explain why.

It shouldn’t take that long as the client has no money in between.

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

Only at a low level that doesant affect the quality of someone that’s vulnerable.

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.

You should be paid from when you made the claim as you where genuine with your claim.

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.

How are you supposed to live you still need money in care or hospital.

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

The dwp used to be reasonable with repayments but now currently they take to much in too little time.

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

Points system is a disgrace people are not tick boxes a diagnosed condition and how that condition affects you is all that you need to know

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?

It depends on what condition or disability you have and how it affects you all this how far you can walk rubbish is a farce.

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

By judging you on your looks is not acceptable. My son has just lost his DLA because he has hidden disability’s but the nurse Redacted textjudged him on looks they said after assessment that my son kept eye contact he wasn’t sweating didn’t look stressed or apeareded to be in pain they judged his hidden disability on looks and that is a disgraceful way that’s impossible to determine.

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

If not in their home or it can’t be determined by medical evidence 5 miles.

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

What conditions or illness or disability they have or side affects of medicine they have.

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?

Two or three times.

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

If they where ill or not that day some people can’t get out of bed some days because of their conditions or side affects of medications

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

Both should get a copy agency and the customer.

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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64. If you have any further comments you would like to make relating to Disability Assistance benefits not covered by this consultation document, please provide them below.

People are dying right now because their is no care available and it should be automatically given with high rate awards.

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