{"id":9258,"date":"2021-10-28T21:15:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/?p=9258"},"modified":"2021-10-28T21:15:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:15:58","slug":"child-disability-payment-from-22nd-november-2021-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/2021\/10\/28\/child-disability-payment-from-22nd-november-2021-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Disability Payment from 22nd November 2021 in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Child Disability Payment from 22<sup>nd<\/sup> November 2021 in Scotland<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s Child Disability Payment opens for new applications across Scotland from 22 November 2021 following a pilot launched in July in other areas of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the first of the application based disability benefits to be introduced by the Scottish Government and replaces the UK Government\u2019s Disability Living Allowance for children.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any new claims from 22\/11\/21 will be for Child Disability Payment for children with a Scottish postcode.<\/p>\n<p>Existing claims of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children <strong>aged 15-17yrs<\/strong> will gradually be transferred over to Child Disability Payment by spring 2022.\u00a0 The remainder of claims are expected to be transferred by spring 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Parents\/Carers will be contacted at the time when this process will be carried out for their child.\u00a0 <strong>You will not need to re-apply at this time and payments will remain the same during transfer.<\/strong>\u00a0 Your payments will be from Social Security Scotland instead of the Department for Work and Pensions.<\/p>\n<p>For further information go to \u2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/child-disability-payment\/applicants\">https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/child-disability-payment\/applicants<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or contact Julie our Financial Inclusion Officer for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Julie McCall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tel:<\/strong> 07584 490 511<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:julie.mccall@east-ayrshire.gov.uk\">julie.mccall@east-ayrshire.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child Disability Payment from 22nd November 2021 in Scotland Scotland\u2019s Child Disability Payment opens for new applications across Scotland from 22 November 2021 following a pilot launched in July in other areas of Scotland. This is the first of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/2021\/10\/28\/child-disability-payment-from-22nd-november-2021-in-scotland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-supports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}