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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Carer's Assistance (Young Carer Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2019,
PART 2
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3.—(1) A person who applies for a young carer grant is entitled to receive it if that person meets the conditions prescribed in these Regulations.
(2) Regulation 4 provides for the making of applications, including providing conditions related to the age of the applicant.
(3) Regulation 5 provides conditions relating to the care being provided and regulation 6 provides conditions relating to the person or persons being cared for.
(4) Regulation 7 provides further conditions relating to receipt of assistance and the status of the applicant.
(5) Regulation 8 provides conditions relating to the applicant's residence.
(6) Part 3 provides timescales for some procedural matters, including situations that involve multiple applications relating to care of the same person, and provides for when the Scottish Ministers must determine that an individual is entitled to a young carer grant without an application.
(7) Regulation 12 makes provision about the assistance that an applicant is entitled to receive.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 3 in force at 21.10.2019, see reg. 1
4.—(1) A person is entitled to a young carer grant if, on the day their application for that assistance is made, they are aged at least 16 and are under the age of 19.
(2) In a non-leap year, the birthday of a person born on 29 February is to be taken to be 28 February.
(3) An application is to be treated as made on the day it is received by the Scottish Ministers.
(4) In a case where, by virtue of a regulation 11, a determination is to be, or has been, made without an application, references in these Regulations to the day the application is made are to be read in accordance with paragraph (3) of that regulation.
(5) For the avoidance of doubt, a thing that purports to be an application is not an application unless it is—
(a)made in the form, and
(b)accompanied by the evidence,
required by the Scottish Ministers under section 38(1) of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.
(6) For the purposes of determining assistance, the period of an application is the period of 13 weeks ending with the day before the day of the application for a grant and an application in respect of any other period of 13 weeks is to be regarded as an application for a different period, despite any overlap between the two periods.
Commencement Information
I2Reg. 4 in force at 21.10.2019, see reg. 1
5.—(1) To qualify for a young carer grant the applicant must have provided care, over the period of 13 weeks ending with the day before the day on which their application for a grant is made (“the qualifying period”)—
(a)to a person or persons described in regulation 6,
(b)for the number of hours, and in the number of weeks, described in paragraph (2),
(c)as described in paragraph (3), and
(d)which was not provided in the manner described in paragraph (4).
(2) The care must have been provided—
(a)for at least 208 hours during the qualifying period, and
(b)in at least 10 weeks during that period.
(3) The care provided must involve activity that promotes the physical, mental or emotional well-being of the person being cared for.
(4) The care must not have been provided by the applicant—
(a)under or by virtue of a contract, unless the contract is of a kind specified by regulations under section 1(3)(a) of the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016 M1 as not to be regarded as a contract for the purposes of that Act, or
(b)as voluntary work.
6.—(1) To qualify for a young carer grant the person or persons being cared for must, throughout the qualifying period and on the day the application for assistance is made, each be a person to whom a qualifying disability benefit is normally payable.
(2) An applicant may combine hours caring for up to three persons during the qualifying period.
(3) In paragraph (1), “qualifying disability benefit” means a disability benefit, or where applicable a component of a disability benefit, which is of a type, and being paid at a rate, that would entitle a person who cares for the recipient of that benefit and who meets the relevant qualifying conditions to—
(a)carer's assistance, payable under section 28 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, or
(b)carer's allowance, payable under section 70 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 M2 or section 70 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 M3.
Commencement Information
I4Reg. 6 in force at 21.10.2019, see reg. 1
Marginal Citations
M21992 c.4. Section 70 was amended to provide for carer's allowance by articles 2 and 3 of, and paragraph 2 of the schedule of, S.I. 2002/1457. There are other amendments to section 70 that are not relevant to these Regulations.
M31992 c.7. Section 70 was amended to provide for carer's allowance by articles 2 and 3 of S.R. 2002/321. There are other amendments to section 70 that are not relevant to these Regulations.
7.—(1) An applicant is not entitled to a young carer grant if, on the day their application is made, the applicant is in receipt of a benefit named in regulation 6(3)(a) or (b) in respect of any of the persons being cared for.
(2) An applicant is not entitled to a young carer grant if they have applied for a benefit named in regulation 6(3)(a) or (b) in respect of a period that includes the day their application is made, unless it has already been determined that the applicant is ineligible for that benefit in respect of that day.
(3) An applicant is not entitled to a young carer grant if they have previously received a young carer grant, unless the day their application is made is at least one year after the day of the application in respect of which that grant was paid.
(4) Paragraph (5) applies if—
(a)any other person has been paid a young carer grant in respect of care of any of the persons being cared for in an application for a young carer grant, and
(b)that grant was paid as a result of an application made during the year immediately preceding the day the applicant makes his or her application.
(5) The applicant is not entitled to a young carer grant unless—
(a)the other person who was paid a young carer grant has died, or
(b)the Scottish Ministers have concluded that a young carer grant should not have been paid to the other person.
(6) If an applicant has already received three young carer grants, they are not entitled to a further young carer grant.
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Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 7(7) omitted (1.4.2020) by virtue of The Funeral Expense Assistance and Young Carer Grants (Up-rating) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/99), regs. 1, 3(2)
Commencement Information
I5Reg. 7 in force at 21.10.2019, see reg. 1
8.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), to qualify for a young carer grant the applicant must, on the day their application is made for that assistance, be—
(a)habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, the European Economic Area or Switzerland, and
(b)ordinarily resident in Scotland.
(2) Paragraph (1)(a) does not apply to the following persons (if they meet the condition in paragraph (1)(b) of being ordinarily resident in Scotland)—
(a)a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the status of refugees done at Geneva on 28 July 1951, as extended by article 1(2) of the Protocol relating to the status of refugees done at New York on 31 January 1967,
(b)a person who has been granted, or who is deemed to have been granted, leave outside the rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 M4, where that leave is—
(i)discretionary leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom,
(ii)leave to remain under the destitution domestic violence concession, or
(iii)leave deemed to have been granted by virtue of regulation 3 of the Displaced Persons (Temporary Protection) Regulations 2005 M5,
(c)a person who has humanitarian protection granted under the rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971, or
(d)a person who—
(i)is not subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 M6, and
(ii)is in the United Kingdom as a result of deportation, expulsion or other removal by compulsion of law from another country to the United Kingdom.
(3) An applicant who is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom does not need to meet the condition in paragraph (1)(b) (and therefore is entitled to a young carer grant) if they—
(a)have previously been properly paid a young carer grant,
(b)have since the day of their application for the young carer grant that was properly paid, or the later of two such grants, left the United Kingdom to become ordinarily resident in the European Economic Area or Switzerland and remain ordinarily resident there,
(c)apply for a further young carer grant, and
(d)meet the other conditions prescribed in these Regulations.
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