The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002

Amendment of the Community Charges (Deductions from Income Support)(Scotland) Regulations 1989

34.—(1) The Community Charges (Deductions from Income Support)(Scotland) Regulations 1989(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 1, in paragraph (2)—

(a) for the definition of “personal allowance for a single claimant aged not less than 25” substitute—

““personal allowance for a single claimant aged not less than 25” means—

(a)

in the case of a person who is entitled to either income support or state pension credit, the amount for the time being specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of column (2) of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987; or

(b)

in the case of a person who is entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, the amount for the time being specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of column (2) of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996;”;

(b) after the definition of “single debtor”, insert—

““state pension credit” means the benefit of that name payable under the State Pension Credit Act 2002;”.

(3) In regulation 2, in paragraphs (1) and (2)(e), and in the heading, after the words “income support” insert “, state pension credit”.

(4) In regulation 3(2) in paragraph (1) and in the heading to the regulation after the words “income support” insert “, state pension credit”.

(5) In regulation 4, after the words “income support” wherever they occur insert “, state pension credit”.

(1)

S.I. 1989/507; the relevant amending Instruments are S.I. 1990/113 and 1996/2344.

(2)

Regulation 3 was inserted by S.I. 1999/3178.