Special schemes for compensation etc.S
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75.—(1) This regulation applies where an applicant receives a payment or payment in kind from a scheme established or approved by the Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers or from a trust established with funds provided by the Secretary of State or from ILF Scotland for the purpose of—
(a)providing compensation or support in respect of—
(i)an applicant having been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease or infected from contaminated blood products,
(ii)the bombings in London on 7 July 2005,
(iii)persons who have been interned or suffered forced labour, injury, property loss or loss of a child during the Second World War,
(iv)the terrorist attacks in London on 22 March 2017 or 3 June 2017,
(v)the bombing in Manchester on 22 May 2017, or
(b)supporting persons with a disability to live independently in their accommodation.
(2) Any such payment, if it is capital, is to be disregarded in the calculation of the applicant’s capital and, if it is income, is to be disregarded in the calculation of the applicant’s income.
(3) Where an applicant is the partner, parent, son or daughter of a diagnosed or infected person referred to in paragraph (1)(a)(i) a payment received from the scheme or trust, or from the diagnosed or infected person or from their estate is to be disregarded if it would be disregarded in relation to an award of state pension credit by virtue of paragraph 13 or 15 of schedule 5 of the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002().