SCHEDULE
PART 1

Short-term assistance

Value and form
2
1
The value of short-term assistance payable for any period is equal to V1-V2 where—
a
V1 is the value of the Child Disability Payment the individual would have been given in respect of the period under the earlier determination had the earlier determination not been superseded, and
b
V2 is the value of the Child Disability Payment that the individual is to be given in respect of the period under what is, at the time the individual becomes eligible for short-term assistance in respect of the period, the most recent determination of the individual’s entitlement to Child Disability Payment.
2
The form in which the short term assistance is to be given is to be the same as the form in which Child Disability Payment was given under the earlier determination.
3
Where the mobility component was being paid by the Scottish Ministers to an authorised provider of vehicles for persons with disabilities in accordance with regulation 38(1) (payment of mobility component to authorised provider of vehicles for individuals with disabilities) on the day before an individual’s entitlement to the mobility component ended as a result of a subsequent determination mentioned in paragraph 1(1)(a)—
a
the amount of short-term assistance that is payable in respect of the mobility component may be paid by the Scottish Ministers to the authorised provider, and
b
paragraphs (1) and (2) of regulation 38 apply to the payment of short-term assistance as they had applied to the payment of mobility component prior to the individual’s entitlement ending.
4
Regulations 25 (time of payment), 27 (form of payment - giving Child Disability Payment by way of deduction), 32 (determination following official error – underpayments), 33 (determination following error – overpayments) and 34 (determination to effect a deduction decision) apply to short-term assistance in the same way as they apply to Child Disability Payment.
Sch. para. 2 in force at 26.7.2021, see reg. 1
Words in sch. para. 2(4) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/31), regs. 1, 19(4)(b) (with reg. 20)
Sch. para. 2(1) substituted (7.6.2024) by The Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/166), reg. 1(3), sch. para. 15(4)