PART 3Disability assistance: England and Wales, and Scotland
Disability assistance: capital and income disregards
Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations 200213.
(1)
The State Pension Credit Regulations 200225 are amended as follows.
(2)
In regulation 15(1) (social security benefits that are not prescribed as income for the purposes of section 15(1)(e) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002), after sub-paragraph (rg) insert—
“(rh)
disability assistance given in accordance with regulations made under section 31 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018;”.
(3)
In Part 1 of Schedule 5 (capital disregarded for the purpose of calculating income), in paragraph 20, after sub-paragraph (2)(x) insert—
“(y)
disability assistance given in accordance with regulations made under section 31 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.”.