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Guidance
14 May 2025
Child Disability Payment
When the change in entitlement should begin if the individual meets the criteria for a higher awardEntitlement to a higher award will begin on the date when the individual first satisfies the requirements for a higher award.
Guidance
14 May 2025
Payments of CDP should stop after an individual’s entitlement to CDP ends.
Guidance
18 December 2023
Circumstances where payment of assistance may be suspended.
Guidance
14 May 2025
Determination without application happens when an individual is under 18 years of age, moves to become resident in Scotland was resident in the another part of the UK before the move, and was entitled to DLA immediately before ‘the date of the move’.
Guidance
14 May 2025
If an individual fails to notify Social Security Scotland that they have moved away from Scotland within 13 weeks of the move, notifies Social Security Scotland 13 weeks or more after the move entitlement to CDP stops on the date when the individual became resident in another part of the UK.
Guidance
14 May 2025
If the individual tells Social Security Scotland about the move less than 13 weeks after it has happened, the run-on period continues for 13 weeks after the date that the individual tells Social Security Scotland that they have moved.
Guidance
14 May 2025
DLAC individuals must notify DWP when they move to Scotland from England and Wales, or the Department for Communities (DfC) if the individual is moving from Northern Ireland to Scotland.
Guidance
14 May 2025
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.
Guidance
19 December 2023
Guidance about applications when an individual applying for Child Disability Payment on behalf of a child dies before a determination is made
Guidance
18 December 2023
When Social Security Scotland makes a determination that was based on an error (including an official error) or was made in ignorance of a material fact.
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