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📝 The Process ⚖️ Challenges 🧠 Mental Health 🧠 Neurological 🦴 Pain & Physical 💔 Heart, Lung & More 👤 Situations
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📝 The ADP Process

How Adult Disability Payment works, from opening your case to the determination.

Process

How to Apply for ADP

Step by step in Scotland

Process

What to Write on Part 2

The 12 activities

Process

The ADP Points System

8 to 11 and 12+ explained

Process

ADP for Multiple Conditions

Several conditions at once

Process

Mental and Physical Together

Where the two overlap

Process

Filling In the Form

Several conditions, one form

Process

Which Condition Goes First?

Order, and what it changes

Process

ADP Descriptors Explained

How they are scored

Process

Daily Living Component

The 10 activities

Process

Mobility Component

Journeys and moving around

Process

Reliability Criteria

Regulation 7

Process

The ADP Consultation

If you are asked to one

Process

Supporting Information

How to build your evidence

Process

Carer's Statement for ADP

First-hand evidence from family

Process

How Long It Takes

Timescales and backdating

Process

ADP Waiting Times 2026

The latest official figures

Process

ADP Rates 2026/27

All four weekly rates

Process

How Much Will I Get?

All eight possible outcomes

Process

ADP Payment Dates

When and how you get paid

Process

ADP Back Payment

How long and how much

Process

Award Reviews Explained

Rolling and light-touch

Process

Does ADP Ever End?

Rolling awards explained

Process

How Long Reviews Take

And what happens to payments

Process

ADP Review Form Tips

What actually matters

Process

Is There an ADP Backlog?

What the 2026 data shows

Process

The ADP Timeline

Every stage and deadline

⚖️ Challenging a Determination

Re-determination, appeal, Short-term Assistance and the Scottish 42/56/31 timescales. Start with our guide to challenging a determination.

Challenge

ADP Refused?

What to do next

Challenge

Re-determination Guide

The 42-day challenge

Challenge

Short-term Assistance

Protect your income

Challenge

Appeal to the Tribunal

First-tier Tribunal for Scotland

Challenge

Scored Zero Points?

How to turn it around

Challenge

Award Reduced or Stopped?

Challenge and STA

Challenge

The 56-Day Rule

Direct appeal right

Challenge

Late Re-determination

Up to a year

Challenge

Tribunal Day

What actually happens

Challenges

Tribunal Waiting Time

How long an appeal takes

Challenge

Re-determination Letter

How to write it

🧠 Mental Health

How ADP applies to mental health conditions and the psychological-distress descriptors. Start with our mental health and ADP overview.

Condition

ADP for Depression

Motivation and daily living

Condition

ADP for Anxiety

Going out and engaging

Mental

ADP for Agoraphobia

The journey activity

Condition

ADP for PTSD

Triggers and going out

Condition

ADP for Bipolar

Episodic difficulties

Condition

ADP for Mental Health

Across conditions

🧠 Neurological & Neurodivergent

Conditions affecting the brain and nervous system, and lifelong neurodivergence.

Condition

ADP for Autism

Communication and routine

Condition

ADP for ADHD

Focus and budgeting

Condition

ADP for MS

Fatigue and relapses

Condition

ADP for Epilepsy

Seizures and safety

Neuro

ADP for Migraines

Counting attack days

Condition

ADP for Parkinsons

Tremor and slowness

Condition

ADP After a Stroke

Mobility and recovery

Neuro

ADP for Vertigo

Safety is the argument

🦴 Pain, Fatigue & Physical

Fluctuating pain and fatigue conditions where the reliability rules matter most. Start with our chronic pain and ADP overview.

Condition

ADP for Fibromyalgia

Fluctuating pain and fatigue

Condition

ADP for Arthritis

Joints, cooking, moving

Pain

ADP for PMR

Morning stiffness and age limits

Condition

ADP for Chronic Pain

Reliability and payback

Pain

ADP for Costochondritis

Rib pain and the 39 week test

Pain

ADP for Endometriosis

Cyclical pain and fatigue

Pain

ADP for PCOS

Combined effect claims

Condition

ADP for Back Pain

Bending and standing

Condition

ADP for ME/CFS

Post-exertional malaise

Condition

ADP for Long Covid

Fatigue and brain fog

💔 Heart, Lung & Long-term

Conditions affecting breathing, the heart and long-term physical health.

Condition

ADP for COPD

Breathlessness and exertion

Organs

ADP for Asthma

Severity is the question

Organs

ADP for Hearing Loss

Deafness and tinnitus

Organs

ADP for Sight Loss

Registration is not required

Organs

ADP for Keratoconus

Cornea, lenses and glare

Condition

ADP for Diabetes

Treatment and complications

Organs

ADP for Eczema/Psoriasis

Treatment time and sleep

Condition

ADP for Heart Conditions

Exertion and fatigue

Organs

ADP for High Blood Pressure

Hypertension, honestly assessed

Organs

ADP for PAD

Claudication and walking distance

Organs

ADP for Cancer

Treatment effects and BASRiS

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👤 Situations & Related Benefits

Moving in or out of Scotland, and how ADP fits with other support.

Situation

Moving to Scotland

PIP to ADP

Situation

Moving From Scotland

ADP to PIP

Situations

ADP and Going Abroad

Common Travel Area rules

Situations

ADP and Housing Benefit

Rent help and bedroom tax

Situations

ADP for Couples

Individual, not household

Situation

ADP vs PIP

The differences

Situation

ADP and Carer Support Payment

Passporting a carer

Situation

Terminal Illness Rules

BASRiS fast-track

Situation

CDP to ADP at 16

The transition

Situations

ADP After Surgery

The 13 and 39 week tests

Situations

ADP for Menopause

Where the line falls

Situation

ADP and Universal Credit

Not means-tested

Situation

ADP and Motability

Enhanced mobility

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