The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Disabled child premium

16.  The condition is that a child or young person for whom the claimant or a partner of his is responsible and who is a member of the claimant’s household—

(a)is in receipt of disability living allowance or is no longer in receipt of such allowance because he is a patient, provided that the child or young person continues to be a member of the family;

(b)is blind or treated as blind within the meaning of paragraph 13; or

(c)is a child or young person in respect of whom section 141A of the Act(1) (entitlement after death of child) applies for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit but only for the period prescribed under section 141A(1) of the Act and in respect of whom a disabled child premium was included in the claimant’s applicable amount immediately before the death of that child.

(1)

Section 141A was inserted by section 55 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) and amended by paragraph 101 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) and paragraph 38 of Schedule 1 to the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c. 6)