What Child Disability Payment is

Child Disability Payment helps with the extra costs a disabled child might have.

You can apply for children under 16 with a physical or mental disability.

You can also apply if the child does not have a diagnosis. You can tell Social Security Scotland about:

• how they're affected
• any symptoms they have

Child Disability Payment is tax-free and made up of a care component and a mobility component.

A child's care and mobility needs can include physical or non-physical difficulties such as:

• emotional
• behavioural
• mental
• developmental
• learning

Care component

There are 3 payment rates for the care component.

Children 3 months old or older can get the care component.

Lowest

The weekly rate is £29.20.

It's for a child who, because of their physical or mental disability, either:

• needs help from another person, for much of the day, to manage their bodily functions
• is 16 or older and cannot prepare a cooked meal

Middle

The weekly rate is £73.90.

It's for a child who, because of their physical or mental disability, either:

• needs help from somebody throughout the day to support with their bodily functions
• needs help from somebody throughout the night to support with their bodily functions
• needs supervised throughout the day to avoid danger to themselves or others
• needs supervised throughout the night to avoid danger to themselves or others
• gets renal dialysis treatment, during the day or at night, at least twice a week

Highest

The weekly rate is £110.40.

It's for a child, who because of their physical or mental disability, either:

• needs help from somebody throughout the day and night to support with their bodily functions
• needs supervised throughout the day and night to avoid danger to themselves or others
• gets renal dialysis treatment, during the day and at night, at least twice a week
• has a terminal illness

If a child has a terminal illness they will get the care component from birth.

Children getting the highest care component rate also get Child Winter Heating Payment.

Mobility component

There are 2 payment rates for the mobility component.

Children 3 or older can qualify for the mobility component

Lower

This is a weekly rate of £29.20.

It's for a child who:

• is 5 or older
• can walk, but needs help from another person to move around outdoors

Higher

This is a weekly rate of £77.05.

It's for a child who is 3 or older and either:

• unable to walk
• unable to walk outdoors
• whose health would get worse from walking
• has no legs or feet
• has a severe visual disability
• is blind and deaf
• has a severe mental disability with severe behavioural difficulties
• has a terminal illness

You can apply to lease an accessible vehicle if the child gets the higher rate mobility payment.