Guidance Library

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Guidance

23 June 2025

Severe mental disabilities

Guidance

23 June 2025

Payment of Child Disability Payment

The process by which CDP is paid.

Guidance

23 June 2025

Child Disability Payment

Watching over

“Watching over” should be given its ordinary meaning, which is to: pay attention to someone to make sure that nothing bad happens to them.

Guidance

23 June 2025

Child Disability Payment

Setting a later start date to entitlement when a change in an individual’s condition and needs leads to a lower award or the end of the award

A case manager may fix a later start date for the change in entitlement to begin if they consider it would be unjust not to do so.

Guidance

23 June 2025

Child Disability Payment

Checking the application form

When an applicant applies for Child Disability Payment the case manager will check that the applicant has parental rights and responsibilities for the child.

Guidance

23 June 2025

Child Disability Payment

Determinations and Awards

How and when case managers make determinations of entitlement to Child Disability Payment

Guidance

23 June 2025

When an individual in receipt of DLAC moves to Scotland

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

23 June 2025

Incomplete SRTI applications

Where a one-part SRTI application form is received without a BASRiS (or equivalent), Social Security Scotland will need to make contact with the named RMP/RN

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