Receiving Pension Age Disability Payment

If your application is successful, the earliest date that Social Security Scotland can pay you from is when you:

• submitted the first part of your application, if you applied online
• phoned Social Security Scotland to start the application process, if you applied by phone and paper form

Pension Age Disability Payment is:

• normally paid every 4 weeks for the previous 4 week period
• paid into the account you gave in your application

To change your account details, call Social Security Scotland free. 

If you're terminally ill, Pension Age Disability Payment is paid weekly in advance.

See how much you could get. 

If you want to stop getting Pension Age Disability Payment

You should contact Social Security Scotland to ask them to end your Pension Age Disability Payment.