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Paragraph 4 Reduction of Adult Disability Payment where short-term assistance is paidF1

Scotland

Where an individual has received short-term assistance for a period and a determination is subsequently made that the individual is entitled to Adult Disability Payment for the same period, any payment of Adult Disability Payment to be made as a result of the subsequent determination for that period—

(a)

where the individual is to be paid Adult Disability Payment at the same rate as or a lower rate than any short-term assistance and any Adult Disability Payment already paid to that individual for that period, is to be reduced to £0, and

(b)

in any other case, is to be reduced by any short-term assistance and any Adult Disability Payment already paid to that individual for that period.

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F1

Sch. 2 para. 4 substituted (29.8.2022) by The Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Transitional Provisions and Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/217), regs. 1(1), 19(12)