Paragraph 26 Additional condition referred to in paragraph 25(10)(b)(i): disabilityI1

is in receipt of one or more of the following benefits: attendance allowance F1, pension age disability payment F2, Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance, disability living allowance F3, child disability payment, personal independence payment F4, adult disability payment, an AFIP, the disability element or the severe disability element of working tax credit as specified in regulation 20(1)(b) and (f) of the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations 2002^f1, mobility supplement, long-term incapacity benefit under Part 2 of the SSCBA or severe disablement allowance under Part 3 of that Act but, in the case of long-term incapacity benefit or severe disablement allowance, only where it is paid in respect of him; or

was in receipt of long-term incapacity benefit under Part 2 of the SSCBA when entitlement to that benefit ceased on account of the payment of a retirement pension under that Act F5or a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014 and the applicant has since remained continuously entitled to council tax benefit (for the period prior to 1st April 2013) or a reduction under an authority’s scheme (for the period on or after 1st April 2013) and, if the long-term incapacity benefit was payable to his partner, the partner is still a member of the family; or

was in receipt of attendance allowance or disability living allowance but payment of benefit has been suspended in accordance with regulations made under section 113(2) of the SSCBA or otherwise abated as a consequence of the applicant or his partner becoming a patient within the meaning of paragraph 25(10)(g) (treatment of child care charges); or

was in receipt of personal independence payment, but payment of that benefit has been suspended in accordance with section 86 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 as a consequence of the applicant becoming a patient within the meaning of paragraph 25(10)(g); or

was in receipt of adult disability payment that is no longer payable by virtue of regulation 28 of the DAWAP Regulations; or

was in receipt of pension age disability payment that is no longer payable by virtue of regulation 20 of the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024; or

was in receipt of Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance that is no longer payable by virtue of regulation 23 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025; or

was in receipt of an AFIP but its payment has been suspended in accordance with any terms of the armed and reserve forces compensation scheme which allow for a suspension because a person is undergoing medical treatment in a hospital or similar institution; or

is provided by the Secretary of State or F8an integrated care board with an invalid carriage or other vehicle under paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service Act 2006 or, in Scotland, under section 46 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (provision of services by Scottish Ministers) or receives payments by way of grant from the Secretary of State under paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 1 to the Act of 2006^f2 or, in Scotland, by Scottish Ministers under section 46 of the Act of 1978; or

F9...F10 is registered as severely sight-impaired in a register kept by a local authority in England under section 77(1) of the Care Act 2014 (registers of sight-impaired adults) F11..., in Scotland, has been certified as blind and in consequence he is registered in a register maintained by or on behalf of a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994 F12or is registered as severely sight-impaired in a register kept by a local authority in Wales under section 18(1) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014; or

is, or is treated as, incapable of work in accordance with the provisions of, and regulations made under, Part 12A of the SSCBA^f3 (incapacity for work); and

has been incapable, or has been treated as incapable, of work for a continuous period of not less than—