Social Security Experience Panels: disability benefit names - visual summary
Social Security Experience Panels members' views on renaming disability benefits when they are transferred from UK Department for Work and Pensions to Social Security Scotland.
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Preference
We asked respondents which name they would prefer, ‘Disability Assistance for Children and Young People’ or ‘something else’.
Around four in ten respondents were in favour of the name Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (42%).
Almost six in ten respondents would prefer something else (58%).
Of those who would prefer something else, 6% said it should stay being called Disability Living Allowance for Children. This accounted for 3% of all responses.
Some respondents made suggestions for an alternative name and some of these are listed below:
- Living Support Allowance for Children & Young People
- Personal Living Allowance for Children
- Financial Assistance for Disabled Children and Young People
- Disability Assistance Under 18
- Disability Assistance for Young People
- Assistance for Children and Young People
- Ability assistance for Children and Young People
- Care and Mobility Assistance for Children and Young People
- Living Assistance for Children and Young People
- Assistance for Children and Young People with a Disability
- Disability Assistance for Minors
- Disability Enhanced Payment for Children
- Disability Support for Children and Young people
- Children’s Assistance
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