Guidance Library

Child Disability Payment

An individual is entitled to the care component of CDP for the period throughout which they satisfy at least one of the criteria set out for each rate. The exception to this is the highest rate which requires both criteria to be met.

Child Disability Payment

A determination without application is a new determination of entitlement that replaces an earlier determination.

Ability to walk can vary depending on how their condition affects them at any given time.

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

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.