Question follow-through · 107874
Disability Living Allowance: Children
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.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2026
Question tabled
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.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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28 Jan 2026
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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