Child Disability Payment decision making guide

Value of Short-term Assistance

The value of STA payable is the difference between (CDP regs, Schedule 1, para 2(1)):

  • the value of assistance paid under the earlier determination
  • and the value paid under the new determination.

Examples of calculating STA value

Please note the care and mobility rates used in the following examples are for illustrative purposes only and may not be accurate at the time of reading.

STA is only payable where the total value of the new determination payment is lower than the total value of the earlier determination payment.

Deductions

Where an individual has liability to Scottish Ministers for a overpayment under section 63 of the 2018 Act, STA may be paid to them in whole or in part the form of a deduction from that debt.1 This means the amount the amount of STA paid and the amount of debt owed will be reduced.

Where they have not agreed to repay their debt, Scottish Ministers may not put in place an enforced deduction, and will set the amount at a reasonable level, taking into account their financial circumstances.

This deduction could be a continuation of deduction that was already in place from the benefit that has been reduced or stopped, or it could be a new voluntary or enforced deduction. To affect the deduction a new determination of entitlement to STA must be made which is subject to re-determination and appeal rights. See Re-determination and appeal of decision on short-term assistance

1 CDP Regulations, Schedule 1, Part 1, para 4

Start date of entitlement

STA entitlement begins where the following criteria are both met:

  • an individual has a reduction to their longstanding award and
  • they are challenging this reduction

Payment will begin on the exact date of the challenge being validated when a request for a re-determination or where a notice of appeal is submitted. It is only once the challenge has been validated that entitlement to STA begins.


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