PART IIMISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO F30CARER'S ALLOWANCE
Prescribed payments out of public funds which constitute the persons in respect of whom they are payable as severely disabled persons3
1
For the purposes of F12section 70 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (F31carer’s allowance) the prescribed payments out of public funds which constitute the persons in respect of whom they are payable as severely disabled persons are—
a
a payment under F13section 104 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (increase of disablement pension where constant attendance needed);
b
a payment such as is referred to in section 7(3)(b) of the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975 (increase of an allowance under that Act where the person in respect of whom that allowance is payable requires constant attendance as a result of his disablement);
c
a payment under regulation 44 of the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Benefit) Regulations 19752 in respect of the need of constant attendance;
d
a payment by way of an allowance in respect of constant attendance on account of disablement for which a person is in receipt of a war disablement pension,
being a payment the weekly rate of which is not less than the amount specified in F14paragraph 2(a) of Part V of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act.
2
For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d) of this regulation “war disablement pension” means —
a
retired pay, pension or allowance granted in respect of disablement under powers conferred by or under the Ministry of Pensions Act 1916 the Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917, the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939, the Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939, the Polish Resettlement Act 1947, the Home Guard Act 1951 or the Ulster Defence Regiment Act 1969;
b
any retired pay or pension to which section 365(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 applies, not being retired pay, pension or allowance to which sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph applies; or
c
any payment which the Secretary of State has certified can be accepted as being analogous to any such retired pay, pension or allowance as is referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of this paragraph.
Circumstances in which persons are or are not to be treated as engaged or regularly and substantially engaged in caring for severely disabled persons4
1
F5Subject to paragraph (1A) of this regulation, a person shall be treated as engaged and as regularly and substantially engaged in caring for a severely disabled person on every day in a week if, and shall not be treated as engaged or regularly and substantially engaged in caring for a severely disabled person on any day in a week unless, as at that week he is, or is likely to be, engaged and regularly engaged for at least 35 hours a week in caring for that severely disabled person.
F61A
A person who is caring for two or more severely disabled persons in a week shall be treated as engaged and regularly and substantially engaged in caring for a severely disabled person only where he is engaged and regularly engaged for at least 35 hours in that week in caring for any one severely disabled person, considered without reference to any other severely disabled person for whom he is caring.
2
A week in respect of which a person fails to satisfy the requirements of paragraph (1) of this regulation shall be treated as a week in respect of which that person satisfies those requirements if he establishes—
a
that he has only temporarily ceased to
satisfy them; F57 and
b
that (disregarding the provisions of
this sub-paragraph) he has satisfied them for at least 14 weeks in the period
of 26 weeks ending with that week and would have satisfied them for at least
22 weeks in that period but for the fact that either he or the severely disabled
person for whom he has been caring was undergoing medical or other treatment
as an in-patient in a hospital or similar institution.
Circumstances in which persons are to be regarded as receiving full-time educationF45
1
For the purposes of F15section 70(3) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, a person shall be treated as receiving full-time education for any period during which he attends a course of education at a university, college, school or other educational establishment for twenty-one hours or more a week.
2
In calculating the hours of attendance under paragraph (1) of this regulation–
a
there shall be included the time spent receiving instruction or tuition, undertaking supervised study, examination or practical work or taking part in any exercise, experiment or project for which provision is made in the curriculum of the course; and
b
there shall be excluded any time occupied by meal breaks or spent on unsuper-vised study, whether undertaken on or off the premises of the educational establishment.
3
In determining the duration of a period of full-time education under paragraph (1) of this regulation, a person who has started on a course of education shall be treated as attending it for the usual number of hours per week throughout any vacation or any temporary interruption of his attendance until the end of the course or such earlier date as he abandons it or is dismissed from it.
F3Severely disabled persons prescribed for the purposes of F16section 70(1)(c) of the Contributions and Benefits Act6
For the purposes of F17section 70(1)(c) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (condition of entitlement to F32a carer’s allowance that the severely disabled person is either such relative of the person caring for him as may be prescribed or a person of any such other description as may be prescribed) where a severely disabled person is being cared for by another person, that disabled person shall be a prescribed person for the purposes of that section, whether he is related to the person caring for him or not.
Manner of electing the person entitled to F26a carer’s allowance in respect of a severely disabled person where, but for F18section 70(7) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, more than one person would be entitled to F26a carer’s allowance in respect of that severely disabled person7
1
For the purposes of the provision in F19section 70(7) of the Contributions and Benefits Act which provides that where, apart from that section, two or more persons would F48have a relevant entitlement for the same day in respect of the same severely disabled person one of them only F49shall have that entitlement, being such one of them as they may jointly elect in the prescribed manner, an election shall be made by giving the Secretary of State a notice in writing signed by the persons who but for the said provision would F50have a relevant entitlement in respect of the same severely disabled person specifying one of them as the person F51to have that entitlement.
2
An election under paragraph (1) of this regulation shall not be effective to confer F52a relevant entitlement either for the day on which the election is made or for any earlier day if such day is one for which F53a carer’s allowance or the carer element of universal credit has been paid in respect of the severely disabled person in question and has not been repaid or recovered.
F543
In paragraph (2) “the carer element of universal credit” means an amount included in an award of universal credit in respect of the fact that a person has regular and substantial caring responsibilities for a severely disabled person.
Circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed8
1
For the purposes of F20section 70(1)(b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (condition of a person being entitled to F33a carer’s allowance for any day that he is not gainfully employed) a person shall not be treated as gainfully employed on any day in a week unless his earnings in the immediately preceding week have exceeded F58F59£128and, subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, shall be treated as gainfully employed on every day in a week if his earnings in the immediately preceding week have exceeded F58F59£128.
2
There shall be disregarded for the purposes of paragraph (1) above a person's earnings—
a
for any week which under paragraph (2) of regulation 4 of these regulations is treated as a week in which that person satisfies the requirements of paragraph (1) of that regulation;F21...
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Conditions relating to residence and presence in Great Britain9
1
Subject to the following provisions of this regulation F39and regulations F569A, 9B and 9C, the prescribed conditions for the purposes of F23section 70(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (person not to be entitled to F34a carer’s allowance unless he satisfies prescribed conditions as to residence or presence in Great Britain) in relation to any person in respect of any day shall be—
a
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he is not a person subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 or section 115 of that Act does not apply to him for the purposes of entitlement to F34a carer’s allowance by virtue of regulation 2 of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000, and
b
that he is present in Great Britain; and
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2
For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) and (c) of this regulation, a person who is absent from Great Britain on any day shall be treated as being present in Great Britain—
a
if his absence is, and when it began was, for a temporary purpose and has not lasted for a continuous period exceeding 4 weeks; or
F45b
if his absence is temporary and for the specific purpose of caring for the severely disabled person who is also absent from Great Britain and where any of the following is payable in respect of that disabled person for that day—
i
attendance allowance;
ii
the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 72(3) of the Contributions and Benefits Act;
iii
the daily living component of personal independence payment at the standard or enhanced rate prescribed in accordance with section 78(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012; F46...
F47iiia
armed forces independence payment under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011; or
iv
a payment specified in regulation 3(1) of these Regulations.
F443
Notwithstanding that on any day a person is absent from Great Britain, he shall be treated as though he were—
a
habitually resident and present in Great Britain for the purposes of paragraphs (1)(a) to (c) if—
i
his absence is by reason only of the fact that on that day he is abroad in his capacity as a serving member of the forces and for this purpose “serving member of the forces” has the meaning given in regulation 1(2) of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001 (“the 2001 Regulations”); or
ii
he is living with a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (a)(i) and is the spouse, civil partner, son, daughter, step-son, step-daughter, father, father-in-law, step-father, mother, mother-in-law or step-mother of that person; and
b
present in Great Britain for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) and (c) if his absence is by reason only of the fact that on that day he is—
i
abroad in his capacity as an airman within the meaning of regulation 111 of the 2001 Regulations or a mariner within the meaning of regulation 115 of those Regulations; or
ii
in prescribed employment in connection with continental shelf operations within the meaning of regulation 114(1) of those Regulations.
F38Persons residing in Great Britain to whom a relevant EU Regulation applies9A
1
Regulation 9(1)(c) shall not apply where on any day—
a
the person is habitually resident in Great Britain;
b
a relevant EU Regulation applies; and
c
the person can demonstrate a genuine and sufficient link to the United Kingdom social security system.
2
For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) and regulation 9B, “relevant EU Regulation” has the meaning given by section 84(2) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
F38Persons residing in an EEA state other than the United Kingdom or in Switzerland to whom a relevant EU Regulation applies9B
Regulation 9(1)(a) to (c) shall not apply where on any day—
a
the person is habitually resident in—
i
an EEA state other than the United Kingdom; or
ii
Switzerland;
b
a relevant EU Regulation applies; and
c
the person can demonstrate a genuine and sufficient link to the United Kingdom social security system.
F55Refugees9C
1
Regulation 9(1)(c) shall not apply where the person has—
a
been granted refugee status or humanitarian protection under the immigration rules; or
b
leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom as the dependant of a person granted refugee status or humanitarian protection under the immigration rules.
2
For the purposes of this regulation “immigration rules” means the rules laid before Parliament under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971.
Circumstances in which a person over pensionable age is to be treated as having been entitled to invalid care allowance immediately before attaining that ageF2710
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F8Women aged 65 before 28th October 199410A
A woman shall be entitled to F35a carer’s allowance if—
a
she attained the age of 65 before 28th October 1994;
b
immediately before attaining the age of 65 she would have satisfied the requirements for entitlement to F35a carer’s allowance, whether or not she made a claim, but for the condition, which applied prior to 28th October 1994, in section 70(5) of the Contributions and Benefits Act(exclusion of persons who had attained pensionable age and had not been entitled to that allowance immediately before attaining that age); and
Invalid care allowance for persons over retiring ageF2911
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F7Men aged 65 before 28th October 199411A
A man who—
a
attained the age of 65 before 28th October 1994; and
b
was entitled to F36a carer’s allowance immediately before he attained that age,
shall be entitled to that allowance notwithstanding that, after he attained that age, he was not caring for a severely disabled person or no longer satisfied the requirements of section 70(1)(a) or (b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, if he satisfies the other requirements for entitlement to that allowance.
Increase of invalid care allowance for child dependantsF112
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Increase of invalid care allowance for adult dependantsF213
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Application of F9the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982 to F37carer’s allowance14
The provisions of F10the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 198210, specified in column (1) of Schedule 1 to these regulations, the subject matter of which is described in column (2) of that Schedule, shall, with any necessary modifications, apply to F37carer’s allowance as they apply to F10incapacity benefit.
Words in Pt. II heading substituted (1.4.2003) by The Social Security Amendment (Carer's Allowance) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2497), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 1, 2