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SCHEDULE 1SApplicable amount

PART 3SDisability premiums

Enhanced disability premiumS

8.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), with regard to enhanced disability premium the condition referred to in paragraph 5 is that—

(a)the care component of disability living allowance is, or would, but for a suspension of benefit in accordance with regulations under section 113(2) of the 1992 Act or but for an abatement as a consequence of hospitalisation, be payable at the highest rate prescribed under section 72(3) of the 1992 Act in respect of a child or young person who is a member of the applicant's family; F1...

[F2(aa)armed forces independence payment is payable in respect of a young person within the applicant’s family;]

(b)the daily living component of personal independence payment [F3at the enhanced rate] is, or would, but for a suspension of benefit in accordance with regulations made under section 86(1) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 M1 or an abatement as a consequence of hospitalisation, be payable in respect of a child or young person who is a member of the applicant's family [F4, F5...

(c)the care component of child disability payment at the highest rate is payableF6... in respect of a child or young person who is a member of the applicant's family.][F7, or

(d)the enhanced rate of the daily living component of adult disability payment is payable, or would be payable were it not for regulation 28(2) (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Adult Disability Payment) of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022, in respect of a young person who is a member of the applicant’s family.]

(2) Where the condition in sub-paragraph (1) ceases to be satisfied because of the death of a child or young person, the condition referred to in paragraph 5 is that the applicant or the applicant's partner is entitled to child benefit in respect of that child or young person under section 145A of the 1992 Act M2 (entitlement after death of child or qualifying young person).

F8(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F8(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Marginal Citations

M2Section 145A was inserted by section 55 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c.21) and amended by paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c.6) and paragraph 48 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c.33).