Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 11 inserted (26.7.2021) by Social Security Administration and Tribunal Membership (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 18), ss. 12(4), 18(2)(3); S.S.I. 2021/232, reg. 2(f)
1(1)The regulations may provide for an individual's assistance to be suspended in the following circumstances only—S
(a)under section 54(1A) the Scottish Ministers have issued a decision to suspend assistance to the individual due to a failure to provide information which the individual is yet to provide,
(b)where the Scottish Ministers have made arrangements (whether under section 85A, 85B or otherwise) for a person to receive the assistance on the individual's behalf, and the Ministers consider that it is necessary to suspend the assistance—
(i)in order to protect the individual from the risk of financial abuse,
(ii)because the person with whom the Ministers have made arrangements is unable to continue to receive the assistance, or
(iii)for any other reason specified in the regulations, or
(c)the individual has requested that the Scottish Ministers temporarily stop giving the assistance in question and is yet to request that they resume doing so.
(2)For the purpose of sub-sub-paragraph (1)(b), “financial abuse” includes—
(a)having money or other property stolen,
(b)being defrauded,
(c)being put under pressure in relation to money or other property,
(d)having money or other property misused.]