PART 5Effect of time spent in care homes and in legal detention

Effect of legal detention on ongoing entitlement to care componentI118

1

This regulation applies where an individual who has an ongoing entitlement to the care component of Child Disability Payment is in legal detention.

F11A

For the purposes of this regulation, an individual is to be treated as though they are not in legal detention on any day on which they are an in-patient in a hospital or hospice.

2

F2On the day after the day on which an individual has been in legal detention for 28 days, and for so long as the individual continues to be in legal detention, the value of the care component of Child Disability Payment that is to be given to the individual is to be £0, instead of the values set out in regulation 23 (amount and form of Child Disability Payment).