Applications received and authorised for Child Disability Payment
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Child Disability Payment is a replacement of the Disability Living Allowance for Children in Scotland, which was previously delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions. It is the first application-based disability benefit to be introduced by the Scottish Government and is administered by Social Security Scotland. It provides money to help with the extra care and mobility costs that a child living with a disability might have.
From the 26 July 2021, new applications were taken for Child Disability Payment for children under 16 that live in the pilot areas of Dundee City, Na h-Eileanan Siar and Perth and Kinross. On 22 November 2021, Child Disability Payment will launch nationwide to all new applicants living in Scotland.
This dataset includes received applications for Child Disability Payment. Statistics are provided for the last day of the month (e.g. figures for 2021-8 are for applications received or authorised as of 30 August 2021).
Further information on applications can be found in the associated publication.
Figures have been rounded to the nearest five for disclosure control.
Data has been suppressed where it would disclose fewer than five applications.
The data used to produce these statistics are extracted from the Social Security case management system. Extracts from this system are also used on a daily basis for internal reporting within Social Security Scotland. As such, the data is checked daily for consistency with previous extracts (i.e. do applications, decisions and payments figures increase as expected over time, and are they in proportion to each other) and compared to other sources of information such as the number of payment instructions reported by the finance team.
Quality assurance and cleaning has been carried out on the variables used in the official statistics:
Once the data is aggregated and copied into the publication and supporting Excel tables, the final statistics are quality assured by a different member of the statistics team.
1) Rounding and disclosure control
Application and outcome figures have been rounded to the nearest five for disclosure control. Data has been suppressed where it would disclose fewer than five applications.
2) Missing and duplicate applications
The data comes from 100% data cut of the case management system.
The data cut was checked for applications where the field relating to application date was blank. These applications represent temporary ‘prospect cases’, which are created when clients contact Social Security Scotland without a National Insurance number, and are later replaced once a National Insurance number is received from the applicant. Any such applications are therefore duplicates and are excluded from the statistics.
3) Authorisation and Payment For all applications, the date that applications were processed by client advisors is the date used to produce statistics of processed applications by month. After applications are authorised for payment by client advisors, the decision is approved by a manager, and then a payment is issued. In some cases, payments will be issued on the same day that payments are authorised by client advisors, however in other cases there can be a delay before payments are issued. Clients should receive money in their nominated account within four working days after payment is issued. In this publication, we report on the value of payments that have been issued by the end of each month and not the payments successfully received by the applicants.
Department for Work and Pension publish information about Disability Living Allowance in the DWP benefits statistics releases.
Further information on applications can be found in the associated publication.
The Scotland Act 2016 devolved new powers to the Scottish Parliament in relation to social security, including responsibility for disability benefits which had been administered to Scottish claimants by the Department for Work and Pensions. On 1st April 2020, executive competency for Disability Living Allowance was transferred to Scottish Government.
The Child Disability Payment is the first of the application-based disability benefits to be introduced by the Scottish Government. It provides money to help with the extra care and mobility costs that a child living with a disability might have. The pilot launched on the 26 July for new applicants living in of Dundee City, Na h-Eileanan Siar and Perth and Kinross. On 22 November, Child Disability Payment will launch nationwide to all new applicants living in Scotland. From mid-October, children aged 15 to 17 who get Disability Living Allowance for children from the Department for Work and Pensions will have their award transferred to Social Security Scotland in phases. Clients under 15 years old will have their award transferred from spring 2022. Social Security Scotland aims to have the transfer process completed for everyone in receipt of Disability Living Allowance for children by spring 2023.
Further details about the benefit can be found on the Scottish Government website.
These statistics are updated every 3 months. These updates coincide with our quarterly publications on Child Disability Payment. These can be found at the Scottish Government website
Data are collected, validated and published in as timely a manner as possible in accordance with the Statistics Code of Practice. Data are published quarterly and can be found on the Scottish Government website.
Revisions and corrections to previously published statistics are dealt with in accordance with the Scottish Government Statistician Group corporate policy statement on revisions and corrections.
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Child Disability Payment Indicators
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/childDisabilityPaymentIndicators
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Reference Area
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Reference Period
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Measure Type
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