Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010
Carer’s allowance — assessment of means. |
10.— Part 5 (amended by section 8 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2008 ) of Schedule 3 to the Principal Act is amended— | |
(a) in paragraph (5) of Rule 1 by inserting “any benefit, pension, assistance, allowance or supplement under this Act or” after “other than means derived from”, | ||
(b) by inserting the following Rules after Rule 1: | ||
“1A. In the case of carer’s allowance, in calculating the weekly means of a carer who is not one of a couple the following shall be disregarded— | ||
(a) an amount, not exceeding the maximum amount set out in column (2) at reference 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, of a social security payment payable under the legislation of another state, and | ||
(b) an amount, not exceeding the maximum amount set out in column (4) at reference 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, of a social security payment payable under the legislation of another state in respect of each qualified child for whom an increase is granted under section 181(1). | ||
1B. In Rules 1, 1A and 4, ‘couple’ means a married couple who are living together or a man and woman who are not married to each other but are cohabiting as husband and wife.”, | ||
(c) in Rule 4, by substituting the following paragraph for paragraph (2): | ||
“(2) In the case of carer’s allowance, in calculating the weekly means of a couple the following shall be disregarded— | ||
(a) an amount, not exceeding the maximum amount set out in column (2) at reference 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, of a social security payment payable under the legislation of another state, and | ||
(b) an amount, not exceeding half the amount set out in column (4) at reference 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, of a social security payment payable under the legislation of another state in respect of each qualified child for whom an increase is granted under section 181(1).”, | ||
(d) in Rule 4(3), by inserting “any benefit, pension, assistance, allowance or supplement under this Act or” after “other than means derived from”, and | ||
(e) by deleting Rule 4(4). |