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Paragraph 8 Disabled child premium

England and Wales

The condition is that a child or young person for whom the applicant or a partner of the applicant is responsible and who is a member of the applicant’s household—

(a)

is in receipt of disability living allowance or personal independence payment or is no longer in receipt of such allowance or payment because the child or young person is a patient, provided that the child or young person continues to be a member of the family; or

(b)

F1is blind or severely sight-impaired within the meaning of paragraph 6(4) of this Schedule or treated as such in accordance with paragraph 6(5); or

(c)

is a child or young person in respect of whom section 145A of the SSCBA (entitlement after death of child or qualifying young person) applies for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit but only for the period prescribed under that section, and in respect of whom a disabled child premium was included in the applicant’s applicable amount immediately before the death of that child or young person, or ceased to be included in the applicant’s applicable amount because of that child or young person’s death F2; or

F3(d)

is in receipt of an AFIP.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. Scheme Sch. 2 para. 8(b) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/50), regs. 1(2), 25(c)

F2

Word in Sch. Scheme Sch. 2 para. 8(c) substituted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/56), regs. 1(2), 15(d)(i)

F3

Sch. Scheme Sch. 2 para. 8(d) inserted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements and Default Scheme) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/56), regs. 1(2), 15(d)(ii)