Child Disability Payment decision making guide

The case transfer process from Disability Living Allowance for children (DLAC) to Child Disability Payment (CDP)

Individuals cannot ask for their benefits to be transferred. DLAC cases are selected for transfer based on the postcode in DWP's individual record. The timing of the transfer is based on:

  • if the individual meets the special rules for terminal illness (SRTI), with these given priority
  • the individual’s age, with the oldest individuals being transferred first

Individuals do not need to make a new application if their case has been selected for transfer. Instead, the DWP passes the information used to make the individual’s DLAC award to Social Security Scotland. This information forms the basis for the individual’s CDP determination.

Once Social Security Scotland receives this information from DWP, they send a notification to the individual explaining all of the following (CDP regs, Sch 1, Part 3, Para 8):

  • that their case has been selected for transfer
  • that a determination establishing their entitlement to CDP will be made within 17 weeks
  • that this determination will end their entitlement to DLAC
  • in what circumstances they should contact Social Security Scotland before that determination is made.

The individual will then receive a notification of their CDP determination that sets out (CDP regs, Sch 1, Part 3, Para 9; Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, Sec 40.):

  • what their CDP entitlement is
  • the reasons for the determination
  • when their entitlement to CDP begins
  • that their DLAC entitlement will end immediately before their CDP entitlement begins, so there is no break in entitlement
  • when they should expect their first and subsequent payments – which will be four weeks after their CDP entitlement begins and every four weeks after that
  • what their rights to request a re-determination or appeal are.

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