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20.02.2023 - 08:15 / dailyrecord.co.uk
'Barbaric, cruel and discriminatory'. That’s how a mum living with Multiple Sclerosis has described a new rule, proposed by the Scottish Government, which disqualifies anyone who can walk further than 20m from the higher rate of mobility benefits.
Amy Newton, who was diagnosed 11 years ago with relapsing remitting MS, is backing the MS Society Scotland’s call for the scrapping of the 20-metre rule – part of the new Adult Disability Payment (ADP) assessment process.
It comes as charity MS Society Scotland renews its plea for the “arbitrary and nonsensical measure of mobility” to be dropped from the new benefits scheme, which started to replace Personal Independent Payment (PIP) in Scotland last summer.
The rule states that people with disabilities who can walk one step over that distance do not qualify for the higher rate of mobility support. The Scottish Government has launched a public consultation into the mobility component of ADP, which will form part of its review into the new benefits system later this year.
MS Society Scotland is now urging people living with MS to respond to the consultation and demonstrate to the government why the 20m rule is “an unacceptable way to assess mobility.”
Amy, 45 – who was diagnosed with the degenerative disease at the age of 34 – has been co-ordinator of the MS Society’s Fife local group for several years. She hasn’t yet switched to ADP, and receives the enhanced rate for the mobility and daily living components of PIP.
She said: “I think the 20-metre rule is barbaric, cruel and discriminatory. Why do I have to prove that I’m ill? You know what MS is, you can’t make up MS. If you’ve got the scans to prove it, why should you need to prove how it’s going to affect you?
“If you’ve got
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