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.

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

Circumstances where payment of assistance may be suspended.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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 about applications when an individual applying for Child Disability Payment on behalf of a child dies before a determination is made

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.