PART 3Disability assistance: England and Wales, and Scotland
Disability assistance: capital and income disregards
Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 200615
1
The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 200627 are amended as follows.
2
In regulation 29 (meaning of “income”), after paragraph (1)(j)(ib) insert—
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disability assistance given in accordance with regulations made under section 31 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018;
3
In Part 1 of Schedule 6 (capital to be disregarded generally), in paragraph 21(2), after sub-paragraph (w) insert—
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disability assistance given in accordance with regulations made under section 31 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.