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Individuals who move away from Scotland to another part of the UK continue to be paid CDP for a period of time after the move.

Interpreting definitions for the care component of Child Disability Payment (CDP).

Child Disability Payment

Entitlement to a higher award will begin on the date when the individual first satisfies the requirements for a higher award.

Payments of CDP should stop after an individual’s entitlement to CDP ends.

Events that trigger an unscheduled review.

Child Disability Payment

Child Disability Payment

If another person with parental rights and responsibilities lives with, and looks after the child, and is ‘able and willing’ to act on the child’s behalf, the case manager should ask the applicant for this person’s contact details.

Virtually unable to walk means unable to walk to any appreciable extent or practically unable to walk.