The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability and Carer Benefits) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2026

Explanatory note

Reproduced verbatim from the instrument as published on legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). The note is prepared by the responsible government department and is not part of the instrument itself.

This Order makes amendments in consequence of regulations made under section 28 (carer’s assistance), section 31 (disability assistance) and section 81 (carer’s allowance supplement) of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 9) .

This Order makes amendments to social security legislation in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as the case may be, governing entitlement to certain benefits in consequence of the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 ( S.S.I. 2023/302 ), the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024 ( S.S.I. 2024/166 ), the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025 ( S.S.I. 2025/3 ), the Carer’s Assistance (Young Carer Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 ( S.S.I. 2019/324 ) and the Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021 ( S.S.I. 2021/174 ).

Those Regulations introduce arrangements for the payment of various Scottish disability and carer benefits in the form of carer support payment (replacing carer’s allowance), carer’s allowance supplement, young carer’s grant, pension age disability payment (replacing attendance allowance), child disability payments (replacing disability living allowance for children and young people under 16), Scottish adult disability living allowance (replacing disability living allowance) and adult disability payment (replacing personal independence payment).

Where applicable, these Scottish benefits are intended to interact with the reserved benefit system in the same way as the benefits that they replace to ensure equal treatment across Great Britain in the reserved system and in Northern Ireland.

Consequential amendments arising from the introduction of those benefits were previously made to the reserved benefits system and in Northern Ireland via multiple Orders made under section 104 of the Scotland Act 1998 including S.I. 2018/872 , 2020/989 , 2021/786 , 2022/177 , 2023/1218 , 2024/919 and 2025/227 . The amendments included in this Order supplement those made in earlier Orders and correct omissions.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.