The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1990

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the General Regulations

8.  In Schedule 2 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts)–

(a) in paragraph 4 for the reference “8 to 14” there shall be substituted the reference “8 to 14ZA”;

(b) in paragraph 6(2) for the words “The disabled child premium to which paragraph 14 applies” there shall be substituted the words “The disabled child premium and the carer premium to which paragraphs 14 and 14ZA respectively apply”;

(c) (i) paragraph 7 shall be renumbered as sub-paragraph 7(1) and the words “Subject to sub-paragraph (2)” shall be inserted at the beginning of the sub-paragraph,

(ii) after sub-paragraph (1) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph–

“(2) For the purposes of the carer premium under paragraph 14ZA, a person shall be treated as being in receipt of invalid care allowance by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a) only if and for so long as the person in respect of whose care the allowance has been claimed remains in receipt of attendance allowance.”;

(d) after paragraph 14 there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

“Carer premium

14ZA.— (1) The condition is that the claimant or his partner is, or both of them are, in receipt of invalid care allowance under section 37 of the Social Security Act(1).

(2) If a claimant or his partner, or both of them, would be in receipt of invalid care allowance but for the provisions of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979(2), where–

(a) the claim for that allowance was made on or after 1st October 1990, and

(b) the person or persons in respect of whose care the allowance has been claimed remains or remain in receipt of attendance allowance,

he or his partner, or both of them, as the case may be, shall be treated for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) as being in receipt of invalid care allowance.”;

(e) in paragraph 15 at the end the following sub-paragraph shall be added–

“(7) Carer Premium

(7) £10 in respect of each person who satisfied the condition specified in paragraph 14ZA.”.

(1)

Section 37 was amended by the Social Security Act 1986, section 37(1) and Schedule 11 and by the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 7, paragraph 10.

(2)

S.I. 1979/597.