Adult Disability Payment

You may be able to claim Adult Disability Payment if your cancer diagnosis affects your everyday life. For example, doing household jobs and caring for yourself, or getting around. 

You must be aged between 16 years old and the State Pension age to be able to claim Adult Disability Payment. Your State Pension age is the youngest age you can start getting your State Pension payments. If you are above State Pension age, you can claim Attendance Allowance (AA) instead.

You must live in Scotland to claim Adult Disability Payment.

You can find out more who can apply for Adult Disability Payment on the mygov.scot website.

If your application for Adult Disability Payment was unsuccessful, or you think that you have not been awarded the right amount, you can request that Social Security Scotland look again at your application.

To ask for a new decision, you can either contact Social Security Scotland or fill out a paper re-determinations form and post this to Social Security Scotland.

You must request a new decision within 42 days (6 weeks) from when you received your letter about Social Security Scotland’s decision about your application. If you request a new decision after 42 days have passed, you must give a reason.

When Social Security Scotland receive your request, they have 56 days (8 weeks) to give you a new decision.

You may be able to get other financial support depending on your situation to help with the extra costs of living with cancer.

You might have some more questions about claiming Adult Disability Payment. We've answered some of the most often asked questions below. 

If you have a question that is not answered below, you can call our Macmillan Welfare Rights Advisers.