The Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Consequential Amendment and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2021

Amendment of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003

10.  In Table B in Part 2 of the schedule (calculation of requirements) of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003(1), in column 2 of the entry which modifies the table in schedule 2 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987, in sub-paragraph (1)(b) of the substituted paragraph 13A, after head (ii) insert—

“(iia) in receipt of the highest rate of the care component of child disability payment in accordance with regulation 11 (care component criterion: lowest, middle or highest rate care component) of the Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021(2) (or would be in receipt of that component at that rate had the amount of that component to which the claimant is entitled not been reduced to £0 in accordance with regulation 17 (effect of admission to a care home on ongoing entitlement to care component) or regulation 20 (entitlement beginning while in alternative accommodation) of those Regulations, where the claimant is resident in a care home),

(iib) in receipt of short-term assistance in accordance with Part 1 of the schedule (short-term assistance) of those Regulations where the “earlier determination” referred to in paragraph 1(1)(a) of that schedule awarded the highest rate of the care component of child disability payment,”.

(1)

S.S.I. 2003/460, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2008/390 and S.S.I. 2013/142.

(2)

S.S.I. 2021/174.