# The Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024, Regulation 30: Circumstances in which assistance may be suspended


(1) The Scottish Ministers may decide that an individual who has an ongoing entitlement to Pension Age Disability Payment in respect of a period by virtue of regulation 29 (continuing eligibility) is not to become entitled to be given some or all of Pension Age Disability Payment at the time at which the individual otherwise would in accordance with that regulation, as read with regulation 28 (time of payment) (referred to in these Regulations as a decision to suspend the individual’s Pension Age Disability Payment).
(2) Where such a decision is made in respect of an individual, payments of Pension Age Disability Payment to that individual are to be suspended until such a time as the Scottish Ministers decide that the individual is once again to become entitled to be given Pension Age Disability Payment.
(3) The Scottish Ministers may decide to suspend an individual’s Pension Age Disability Payment only in the circumstances where—
(a) section 54(1A) of the 2018 Act applies, or
(b) the Scottish Ministers have made arrangements (whether under section 85B of the 2018 Act or otherwise) for a person to receive the Pension Age Disability Payment on the individual’s behalf, and the Scottish Ministers consider that it is necessary to suspend the Pension Age Disability Payment—
(i) in order to protect the individual from the risk of financial abuse, or
(ii) because the person with whom the Scottish Ministers have made arrangements is unable to continue to receive the Pension Age Disability Payment.
(4) In this regulation, “financial abuse” includes—
(a) having money or other property stolen,
(b) being defrauded,
(c) being put under pressure in relation to money or other property,
(d) having money or other property misused.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2024/9780111059852/regulation/30 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-disability-assistance-for-older-people-scotland-regulations-2024/regulation-30
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