Get help to apply for Pension Age Disability Payment

If you cannot apply yourself, you can get someone to apply for Pension Age Disability Payment for you.

This might be:

• a family member
• a friend
• a carer, support worker or someone else who helps you
• an appointee or Power of Attorney, who is legally allowed to act for you

Get help from Social Security Scotland

Social Security Scotland can also help you to apply for Pension Age Disability Payment. You can:

• speak to an adviser by contacting Social Security Scotland
• use the free Local Delivery service to get person-to-person support with your application
• ask them to refer you for extra support from an independent advocate if you have a disability or a mental health condition

Find out more about how Social Security Scotland can help.

If you want to apply in a language that’s not English

To apply using another language by phone, contact Social Security Scotland. They have interpreters for over 100 of the languages used in Scotland, including:

• Polish
• Arabic
• Romanian
• Urdu
• Mandarin

It’s free to apply in any language.

The online and paper forms are only available in English.

When you apply you can ask for any letters sent to you to be in other languages or formats, such as large print.