Supplementary Benefits Act 1976

Attendance requirements

10 (1) The amounts applicable under paragraphs 5 to 9 of this Schedule shall be increased on account of the attendance requirements of a severely disabled person who is either entitled to an attendance allowance, or a child in respect of whose disablement the relevant person is entitled to an attendance allowance, by—

(a) £12.20 where the entitlement is to the higher weekly rate of attendance allowance referred to in section 35(3) of the [1975 c. 14.] Social Security Act 1975 ; and

(b) £8.15 where the entitlement is to the lower weekly rate of attendance allowances so referred to.

(2) In this paragraph—

• " attendance allowance " means an attendance allowance under Chapter II of Part II of the Social Security Act 1975 ;

• " attendance requirements " means such requirements of a disabled person for attention or supervision from another person as entitle any person to attendance allowance;

• " relevant person ", in relation to a child, means the person claiming or in receipt of supplementary benefit or a person whose requirements are, under paragraph 3 of this Schedule, aggregated with, and treated as, those of the person claiming, or in receipt of, supplementary benefit.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph the provisions of regulations under Chapter VI of Part II of the [1975 c. 14.] Social Security Act 1975 relating to overlapping benefits shall not be treated as affecting the rate of attendance allowance to which a person is entitled.