Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 6th October 2003 immediately after the coming into force of regulation 29 of the State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002(3).

Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

2.—(1) Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(4) (applicable amounts) shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In paragraph 10(1)(b)(i) (higher pensioner premium) for “paragraph 12(1)(a) or (c)” there shall be substituted “paragraph 12(1)(a), (c) or (d)”(5).

(3) In paragraph 11 (disability premium) in—

(a)sub-paragraph (b)(i) for “paragraph 12(1)(a), (b) or (c)” there shall be substituted “paragraph 12(1)(a), (b), (c) or (d)”; and

(b)sub-paragraph (b)(ii) for “paragraph 12(1)(a) or (c)” there shall be substituted “paragraph 12(1)(a), (c) or (d)”.

(4) In paragraph 12 (additional condition for the higher pensioner and disability premium) in—

(a)sub-paragraph (4) for “sub-paragraph (1)(c)” in each place where that phrase appears there shall be substituted “sub-paragraph (1)(c) and (d)”; and

(b)sub-paragraph (6) for “sub-paragraph (1)(a)(i) and (c)(i)” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraph (1)(a)(i) and (c)”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made in consequence of a defect in the State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019) (“the 2002 Regulations”). These Regulations will be issued free of charge to all known recipients of the 2002 Regulations.

These Regulations amend paragraphs 10 and 11 of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967) (“the 1987 Regulations”) as a consequence of the amendment of paragraph 12(1)(c) of that Schedule by the 2002 Regulations.

The amendments made by regulation 2 of these Regulations enable a person to continue to be eligible for a higher pensioner premium or, as the case may be, disability premium where payment of his or his partner’s attendance allowance or disability living allowance has been suspended or abated because the person or his partner is in hospital and provided that other conditions are satisfied (regulation 2(2) and (3)).

Consequential amendments are also made to paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 to the 1987 Regulations as a result of the amendment of sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph by the 2002 Regulations (regulation 2(4)).

These Regulations do not impose a charge on business.