The Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

Disabled Child Premium

8.  The condition is that a child or young person for whom the claimant or a partner of his is responsible and who is a member of the claimant's household—

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

(b) is blind within the meaning of paragraph 6(4) or treated as blind in accordance with paragraph 6(5); or

[F1 (c) is a child or young person in respect of whom section 145A M1 of the Act (entitlement after death of child or qualifying young person) applies for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit but only for the period prescribed under that section, and in respect of whom a disabled child premium was included in the claimant’s applicable amount immediately before the death of that child or young person, or ceased to be included in the claimant’s applicable amount because of that child or young person’s death.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 para. 8(c) substituted (1.4.2011 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), regs. 1(2), 15(3)

Marginal Citations

M1 Section 145A was inserted by section 55 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) and amended by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), section 254 and Schedule 24, paragraph 48.