The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 No. 1967

SCHEDULE 2 E+W+S APPLICABLE AMOUNTS

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 2 applied (with modifications) (S.) (6.10.2003) by The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/460), reg. 1, sch. Pt. II Table B (with reg. 13)

PART III E+W+S premiums

[F1 Enhanced disability premium E+W+S

13A.— (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the condition is that 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 Contributions and Benefits Act or but for an abatement as a consequence of hospitalisation, be payable at the highest rate prescribed under section 72(3) of the Contributions and Benefits Act in respect of—

(a) the claimant; or

[F2 (b) a member of the claimant’s family who is aged less than 60.]

who is aged less than 60.

(2) An enhanced disability premium shall not be applicable in respect of—

(a) a child or young person whose capital, if calculated in accordance with Part V of these Regulations in like manner as for the claimant, except as provided in regulation 44(1), would exceed £3,000;

(b) a claimant who—

(i) is not a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage; and

(ii) is a patient within the meaning of regulation 21(3) and has been for a period of more than [F3 52] weeks; or

(c) a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage where each member is a patient within the meaning of regulation 21(3) and has been for a period of more than [F3 52] weeks.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 para. 13A inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Enhanced Disability Premium) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2629), regs. 1(1)(c), 2(c)(ii)

F2 Sch. 2 para. 13A(1)(b) substituted (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(5)(f)

F3 Word in Sch. 2 para. 13A(2) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1195), regs. 1(c), 3(3)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 Sch. 2 para. 13A(2)(a) sum confirmed (7.4.2003 for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with art. 1(2)(g)) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/526), arts. 1(2)(g), 17(2)(b)