(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (“the principal Regulations”).
Regulation 2 inserts a definition of “the State Pension Credit Regulations” for the purposes of the principal Regulations.
Regulation 3 amends the Schedule to the principal Regulations.
Regulation 3(2)(a), (b) and (3) increases the capital limit for entitlement under the principal Regulations for people living in care and maintains the calculation of entitlement under the principal Regulations in respect of people aged 60 and over.
Regulation 3(2)(c) provides that the earnings disregard set out in Schedule 8 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 should apply to a single person over 60 and to a couple where one or both of the partners is over 60.