Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 107874

Disability Living Allowance: Children

Tabled: 22 January 2026

Answered: 28 January 2026

Question

Michelle Welsh

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost of removing the three month waiting period for Child Disability Living Allowance.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

There are no plans to remove the three month qualifying period for Child Disability Living Allowance and no estimate has been made of the cost of doing so. The three month qualifying period is not a waiting period. Its purpose is to help establish that th...

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