SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 APPLICABLE AMOUNTS

PART III PREMIUMS

8.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, once a premium is applicable to a claimant under this Part, a person shall be treated as being in receipt of any benefit—

(a)in the case of a benefit to which the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 F1 applies, for any period during which, apart from the provisions of those Regulations, he would be in receipt of that benefit; and

(b)for any period spent by a person on a scheme of a kind specified in section 2 of the Employment & Training Act 1973 F2.

(2) For the purposes of the carer premium under paragraph 17, a person shall be treated as being in receipt of invalid care allowance by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a) only if and for so long as the person in respect of whose care the allowance has been claimed remains in receipt of attendance allowance, or the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 72(3) of the Benefits Act.

Textual Amendments

F21973 c.50, as amended by sections 9 and 11 and Schedule 2, Part II paragraph 9 and Schedule 3 to the Employment and Training Act 1981 (c.57).