SCHEDULE 1APPLICABLE AMOUNTS

PART IIIPREMIUMS

Additional condition for the higher pensioner and disability premiums12

1

Subject to sub-paragraph (2) and paragraphs 15 and 16, the additional condition referred to in paragraphs 10 and 11 is that either—

a

the relevant person or, as the case may be, his partner—

i

is in receipt of one or more of the following benefits: attendance allowance, disability living allowance, disability working allowance, mobility supplement, long-term incapacity benefit under Part II of the 1992 Act or severe disablement allowance under Part III of that Act but in the case of long-term incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance only where it is paid in respect of him, or

ii

was in receipt of long-term incapacity benefit under Part II of the 1992 Act when entitlement to that benefit ceased on account of the payment of a retirement pension under that Act and, if the long-term incapacity benefit was payable to his partner, the partner is still a member of the family, or

iii

was in receipt of attendance allowance or disability living allowance but payment of benefit has been suspended in accordance with regulations made under section 113(2) of the 1992 Act or otherwise abated as a consequence of the relevant person or his partner being a person (other than a person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment or detention in a youth custody institution) who is regarded as receiving free in-patient treatment within the meaning of regulation 2(2) of the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 197583, or

iv

is provided by the Secretary of State with an invalid carriage or other vehicle under section 5(2) of the National Health Service Act 197784 (other services) or, in Scotland, under section 46 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 197885 (provision of services) or receives payments by way of grant from the Secretary of State under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to that 1977 Act (additional provisions as to vehicles) or, in Scotland, under that section 46, or

v

is blind and in consequence registered in a register compiled by a local authority under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 194886 (welfare services) or, in Scotland, has been certified as blind and in consequence is registered in a register maintained by or on behalf of a regional or islands council; or

b

the relevant person—

i

is, or is treated as, incapable of work in accordance with the provisions of, and regulations made under, Part XIIA of the 1992 Act87 (incapacity for work), and

ii

has been incapable, or has been treated as incapable, of work for a continuous period of not less than—

aa

in the case of a relevant person who is terminally ill within the meaning of section 30B(4) of the 1992 Act88, 196 days; and

bb

in any other case, 364 days.

2

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a)(v), a person who has ceased to be registered as blind on regaining his eyesight shall nevertheless be treated as blind and as satisfying the additional condition set out in that sub-paragraph for a period of 28 weeks following the date on which he ceased to be so registered.

3

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), once the higher pensioner premium or the disability premium is applicable to a person by virtue of his satisfying the additional condition specified in that provision, if he then ceases, for a period of 8 weeks or less, to be treated as incapable for work or to be incapable of work he shall, on again becoming so incapable of work, immediately thereafter be treated as satisfying the condition in sub-paragraph (1)(b).

4

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), once the disability premium is applicable to a person by virtue of his satisfying the additional condition specified in that provision, he shall continue to be treated as satisfying that condition for any period spent by him in undertaking a course of training provided under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 197389 or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 199090 or for any period during which he is in receipt of a training allowance.

5

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), where two or more periods of incapacity are separated by a break of not more than 56 days, those periods shall be treated as one continuous period.

6

For the purposes of this paragraph, a reference to a person who is or was in receipt of long-term incapacity benefit includes a person who is or was in receipt of short-term incapacity benefit at a rate equal to the long-term rate by virtue of section 30B(4)(a) of the 1992 Act (short-term incapacity benefit for a person who is terminally ill), or who would be or would have been in receipt of short-term incapacity benefit at such a rate but for the fact that the rate of short-term incapacity benefit already payable to him is or was equal to or greater than the long-term rate.