Information relating to Child Disability Payment (CDP) applicants: FOI release

Information requested

1. The number of CDP applicants who died prior to the approval of their application in 2022 and in 2024.
2. The date of when each applicant had applied for CDP.
3. The date each application was approved.
4. The date Social Security Scotland were informed about the applicant's death.

Response

Request for information 1:

There have been four cases were an applicant died prior to the approval of their application in 2022, and zero cases in 2024.

Request for information 2, 3 and 4:

	2. Date of Application	3. Date Application Approved	4. Date Notified of Applicants Death
1	07/02/2022	30/06/2022	06/05/2022
2	21/07/2022	25/07/2022	05/08/2022
3	25/08/2022	08/11/2022	25/10/2022

The fourth case was incorrectly included as entry no.1 in our response to FOI 202400405199 which was shared with you on 16 April 2024. We had said there were nine cases were an applicant died prior to the approval of their application in 2023, when the correct answer should have been eight.

It should be noted that this data is drawn from management information, which has not been quality assured to the same level as that in our Official Statistics publication. As such, these figures should be interpreted with caution.

While we cannot comment on individual cases, we are committed to giving people timely decisions, while allowing sufficient time to ensure the correct information is in place to get decisions right the first time.

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