Guidance Library

Child Disability Payment

Setting review periods for existing Child Disability Payment (CDP) awards

What the date of application is, and what happens when someone applies before they meet the backwards test.

The eligibility criteria for entitlement of CDP and DLAC differ if the individual is younger than 16 or not.

Child Disability Payment

The information a case manager can ask for will depend on what answer the applicant gave about how they gained parental rights and responsibilities.

Child Disability Payment

Case managers are responsible for determining whether or not an individual is entitled to CDP.

Child Disability Payment is the child's benefit but an adult must act on the child's behalf until the child reaches age 16.

Where entitlement is in relation to an individual under 16 years old, CDP should be paid to the person specified in the application (Social Security (Scotland Act) 2018, s85A) who will be someone with parental rights and responsibilities, who lives with and has care of the child, provided that they are willing and practicably able to act an appointee.

Severe mental impairment and severe behavioural difficulties test. The test is used to decide if a client is entitled to the higher rate of the mobility component. The test is made up of 3 elements.

The principles of decision-making apply to every decision by case managers. The Tribunals will not overturn decisions that are in line with these principles.