Adult disability payment: rates, eligibility and how to apply

Adult Disability Payment is Scotland's replacement for PIP. It's extra money if you have a disability or a long term health condition that makes everyday life harder. It isn't means tested, so your wages and your savings don't come into it.

Adult disability payment rates for 2026/27

There are two parts. Daily living covers things like cooking, eating, washing and dressing. Mobility covers planning a journey and getting about. You can get one part or both, and each part has a standard and an enhanced rate.

The most anyone can get is both enhanced rates together. That's £194.60 a week, or £10,119.20 over a year. If you're terminally ill you get the enhanced daily living rate automatically.

Adult disability payment eligibility

You can apply if you're between 16 and State Pension age and you have:

• •a disability
• •a long term physical or mental health condition
• •a terminal illness

You don't need a diagnosis to apply. What matters is how your condition affects you day to day. It doesn't matter if you work, and your income and savings aren't looked at.

What counts for the daily living part

Help with preparing food, eating and drinking, managing treatment, washing, using the toilet, dressing, talking to people, reading, mixing with people face to face, and making decisions about money.

What counts for the mobility part

Help with planning and following a journey, or with moving around.

How to apply for adult disability payment

The application comes in two parts, online or by phone and paper.

• •Online, through your mygov.scot myaccount. Send part 1 within 14 days of starting.
• •Then send part 2 within 8 weeks. You can ask for more time and you don't have to say why.
• •By phone on 0800 182 2222, 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, except bank holidays. They fill in part 1 with you and post out a paper form for the rest.
• •If you're terminally ill there's only one part, and you can do the whole thing over the phone.

Your award runs from the day you sent part 1, not the day you get the decision letter. So it pays to start early, even if you need longer to finish part 2.

The full list of numbers, opening times and what to have ready is on the adult disability payment phone number page.

Adult disability payment login

There's no separate login for Adult Disability Payment. You sign in to your mygov.scot myaccount, which is where you start and save an online application. If you've never used it, you'll set up a user name and password and give a few personal details first.

When adult disability payments are paid

You're paid every four weeks, in arrears. The first payment lands after the first four weeks have passed. If you're terminally ill you're paid weekly, in advance. When a payment date falls on a bank holiday it comes early, and the Social Security Scotland payment dates page lists every one, Christmas included.

If someone cares for you

Getting the daily living part can open the door for whoever looks after you. If they care for you 35 hours a week or more, they may be able to claim Carer Support Payment.