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Carer Support Payment decision making guide
The decision making guide, along with training provided to case managers, provides an official interpretation of legislation for Social Security Scotland Staff to make decisions about entitlement to Carer Support Payment.
Supporting documentsPages in this publication:
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- Circumstances when an application may be made
- How to make an application
- Who can make a new application
- Backdating - where a carer chooses a start date in the past
- Acceptable and unacceptable applications
- Rejecting an application
- Change of circumstances before a determination is made
- Determination of application
- Withdrawal of application
- National roll out of Carer Support Payment - Special backdating rules which apply to carers living outside of the initial pilot areas
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- Eligibility
- Ordinary residence in Scotland
- Habitual residence in the common travel area
- Presence in the Common Travel Area
- Past presence in the Common Travel Area
- Subject to immigration control
- Members of the armed forces and civil servants
- Temporary absence from the Common Travel Area
- EU rules on social security coordination
- Personal scope of the EU coordination rules
- Residence criteria for the protected cohort
- Other international agreements
- Examples of personal scope of the coordination rules
- First applications from abroad
- Export
- Competent state
- Genuine and sufficient link to Scotland
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- No past presence test
- Weekly in advance payments
- Terminal illness on application for Carer Support Payment
- Terminal illness as a change of circumstances during a Carer Support Payment award
- Terminal illness and Carer Support Payment
- Need for Discretion and to withhold ‘harmful information’
- Supporting information for SRTI
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- Students who can receive Carer Support Payment
- Students who cannot receive Carer Support Payment
- Definition of ‘non advanced’ and ‘advanced’ education for Carer Support Payment
- Definition of full-time education for those on non-advanced courses
- Counting hours of study for those on non-advanced courses
- Student support and Carer Support Payment
- Further information on students with exceptional circumstances
- Backdating for students
- Local authority school leaving dates
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- When a payment can be made
- Who a payment can be made to
- Rates and form of payment
- Effect on other benefits for Carer Support Payment clients
- Uprating
- Abatement
- Temporary stops in entitlement to Carer Support Payment
- When payments may be suspended
- Over-payments and under-payments
- When payment can be stopped
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- Entitlement to payments when care has temporarily stopped
- Temporary stops in care during the first 26 weeks Carer Support Payment is in payment
- Temporary stops in care due to the carer’s circumstances
- Temporary stops in care due to the cared for person’s circumstances
- Reporting temporary stops in care
- Calculation of temporary stops in a 26 week period
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- Right to Appeal to the First-tier Tribunal
- Appealing a process decision
- How an individual can appeal to the First-tier Tribunal against a determination or re-determination
- Deadlines for appealing
- Non-disclosure of documents and information that could cause serious harm to physical or mental health
- Responding to the notice of appeal
- Who is in the First-tier Tribunal
- Hearings
- Representatives and supporters
- Evidence and submissions
- Witnesses
- Withdrawing or deciding to stop an appeal
- The First-tier Tribunal’s decision
- Applying for a written statement of reasons
- The First-tier Tribunal’s power to review and set aside its decisions
- Duty to treat a request for review as an application for permission to appeal
- Appealing against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal
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- Right to appeal to the Upper Tribunal
- Applying to the First-tier Tribunal for permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal
- Applying to the Upper Tribunal for permission to appeal if the First-tier Tribunal refuses permission
- Notice of appeal
- Non-disclosure of documents and information that could cause serious harm to physical or mental health
- Response to the notice of appeal
- Who is in the Upper Tribunal
- The Upper Tribunal's case management powers
- Hearings
- Representatives
- Evidence and submissions
- Witnesses
- Withdrawing or deciding to stop an appeal
- Upper Tribunal's decision
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- Verification of death
- Payment of Carer Support Payment after the death of the cared for person
- Death of a cared for person after a carer has moved out of Scotland to the rest of the UK
- Overpayments of CSP after a client’s (carers) death
- Death arrears
- When Social Security Scotland are unable to identify an appointee
- Client (carer) dies before a determination of entitlement is made
- When a Carer Support Payment application is made posthumously
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- The meaning of case transfer
- The case transfer process from Carer’s Allowance to Carer Support Payment
- Carer Support Payment determination
- When the client’s Carer’s Allowance award ends
- Information received from the DWP for Case Transfer
- Payment cycles
- Appointees
- Residence
- Re-determinations and appeals
- When a Carer’s Allowance award that ended at the point of case transfer is retroactively changed
- Earnings
- Temporary stops in care