once the higher pensioner premium is applicable to a claimant, if he then ceases, for a period of eight weeks or less, to be entitled to either income support or income based jobseeker’s allowance, F13or ceases to be treated as entitled to either of those benefits he shall, on becoming re-entitled to either of those benefits, thereafter be treated as having been continuously entitled thereto;

in so far as sub-paragraphs (1)(a)(ii) and (1)(c)(ii) are concerned, if a claimant ceases to be entitled to either income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance F13or ceases to be treated as entitled to either of those benefits for a period not exceeding eight weeks which includes his 60th birthday, he shall, on becoming re-entitled to either of those benefits, thereafter be treated as having been continuously entitled thereto.

income support because, as a consequence of his participation in that programme, he was engaged in remunerative work or had income in excess of the claimant’s applicable amount as prescribed in Part IV of the Income Support Regulations; or

a jobseeker’s allowance because, as a consequence of his participation in that programme, he was engaged in remunerative work or failed to satisfy the condition specified in section 2(1)(c) or in section 3(1)(a).

the claimant is a single claimant or a lone parent and (in either case) is a long-term patient;

the claimant is a member of a couple or polygamous marriage and each member of the couple or polygamous marriage is a long-term patient; or

is a single claimant or lone parent who has not attained the age of 60 and satisfies any one of the additional conditions specified in paragraph 14(1)(a), (c), (e), (f) or (h); or

has not attained the age of 60, has a partner and the claimant satisfies any one of the additional conditions specified in paragraph 14(1)(a), (c), (e), (f) or (h); or

has a partner and the partner has not attained the age of 60 and also satisfies any one of the additional conditions specified in paragraph 14.

the claimant is a single claimant or a lone parent and (in either case) is a long-term patient;

the claimant is a member of a couple or polygamous marriage and each member of the couple or polygamous marriage is a long-term patient; or

the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, is in receipt of F21the disability element or the severe disability element of working tax credit as specified in regulation 20(1)(b) and (f) of the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations 2002 or mobility supplement;

the claimant’s partner is in receipt of severe disablement allowance;

the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, is in receipt of attendance allowance or disability living allowance or is a person whose disability living allowance is payable, in whole or in part, to another in accordance with regulation 44 of the Claims and Payments Regulations (payment of disability living allowance on behalf of third party);

the claimant’s partner is in receipt of long-term incapacity benefit or is a person to whom section 30B(4) of the Benefits Act (long term rate of incapacity benefit payable to those who are terminally ill) applies F22;

the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, has an invalid carriage or other vehicle provided to him by the Secretary of State under section 5(2)(a) of and Schedule 2 to the National Health Service Act 1977 F23 or under section 46 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 F24 or provided by the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland under article 30(1) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 F25, or receives payments by way of grant from the Secretary of State under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1977 (additional provisions as to vehicles) or, in Scotland, under section 46 of the Act of 1978;

the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, is a person who is entitled to the mobility component of disability living allowance but to whom the component is not payable in accordance with regulation 42 of the Claims and Payments Regulations (cases where disability living allowance not payable);

the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, is registered as blind in a register compiled by a local authority under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 F28 (welfare services), or, in Scotland, has been certified as blind and in consequence is registered as blind in a register maintained by or on behalf of a regional or islands council.

he is 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; and

subject to sub-paragraph (4), there are no non-dependants aged 18 or over normally residing with him or with whom he is normally residing; and

no person is entitled to, and in receipt of, F7a F7carer’s allowance under section 70 of the Benefits Act in respect of caring for him;

the claimant is 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 (the “qualifying benefit"); and

the partner is also in receipt of a qualifying benefit, or if he is a member of a polygamous marriage, all the partners of that marriage are in receipt of a qualifying benefit; and

subject to sub-paragraph (4), there is no non-dependant aged 18 or over normally residing with him or with whom he is normally residing; and

a person 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;

subject to sub-paragraph (6), a person who joins the claimant’s household for the first time in order to care for the claimant or his partner and immediately before so joining the claimant or his partner satisfied the condition in sub-paragraph (l) or, as the case may be, (2);

a person who is blind or treated as blind within the meaning of paragraph 14(l)(h) and (2).

F33as being 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 if he would, but for his being a patient for a period exceeding 28 days, be so in receipt;

as being entitled to and in receipt of F7a F7carer’s allowance if he would, but for the person for whom he was caring being a patient in hospital for a period exceeding 28 days, be so entitled and in receipt.

the claimant; or

F39a member of the claimant’s family F39the claimant’s partner (if any),

a single claimant or a lone parent and (in either case) is a long-term patient;

a member of a couple or polygamous marriage and each member of the couple or polygamous marriage is a long-term patient; or

in receipt of disability living allowance or is no longer in receipt of that allowance because he is a patient provided that the child or young person continues to be a member of the family; or

blind or treated as blind within the meaning of paragraph 14(1)(h) and (2).

whose capital, if calculated in accordance with Part 8 of these Regulations in like manner as for the claimant, except as provided in regulation 106(1), would exceed £3,000; or

who is a long-term patient.

the person in respect of whose care the F7carer’s allowance has been awarded dies; or

in any other case the person in respect of whom a carer premium has been awarded ceases to be entitledF45... to F7a F7carer’s allowance,

F46where sub-paragraph (3)(a) applies, the Sunday following the death of the person in respect of whose care F7a F7carer’s allowance has been awarded or the date of death if the death occurred on a Sunday;

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in any other case, the date on which the person who has been entitled to F7a F7carer’s allowance ceases to be entitled to that allowance.

the person in respect of whose care the F7carer’s allowance has been awarded dies;

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F51in any other case, the person who has been entitled to a carer’s allowance ceased to be entitled to that allowance.