Guidance Library

Child Disability Payment

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

Events that trigger an unscheduled review.

Child Disability Payment

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

Child Disability Payment

The term “significant portion” means neither trivial nor negligible and is a question of fact

Child Disability Payment

Find out how to check the applicant has parental rights and responsibilities for the child they applied for.

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.

An individual’s entitlement to CDP will end when they reach 18 unless they have submitted a full application for Adult Disability Payment (ADP) before turning 18.