Regulation 1A Prescribed description of personsF1

state pension credit;

income support;

an income-based jobseeker’s allowance; F2...

an income-related employment and support allowanceF3; F4...

universal creditF5; or

owner-occupier loan payments and is treated as entitled to a benefit specified in sub-paragraphs F6(b) to (d).

owner-occupier loan payments and is treated as entitled to state pension credit.

P’s family includes a member aged less than 5;

where P has been awarded income support, P’s applicable amount includes one or more of the premiums specified in paragraphs 9 to 14 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the General Regulations;

where P has been awarded a jobseeker’s allowance, P’s applicable amount includes one or more of the premiums specified in paragraphs 10 to 16 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996;

P’s child tax credit includes a disability element within the meaning of section 9(3) of the Tax Credits Act 2002;

where P has been awarded an employment and support allowance F11and—

where P has been awarded universal credit—

where P has been awarded owner-occupier loan payments, P’s applicable amount, if P were entitled to a benefit specified in paragraph (2)(b) to (d), would include one or more of the premiums specified in—

a care home;

an independent hospital;

an establishment run by the Abbeyfield Society or by a body corporate or incorporate which is affiliated to that Society; or

accommodation provided under section 3(1) of, and Part 2 of the Schedule to, the Polish Resettlement Act 1947 (provision by the Secretary of State of accommodation in camps).

“care home” in England F22... has the meaning assigned to it by section 3 of the Care Standards Act 2000, F23in Wales means a care home service within the meaning of Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 which is provided wholly or mainly to persons aged 18 or over and in Scotland means a care home service as defined by F24paragraph 2 of schedule 12 to the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010;

“independent hospital”—

in a case where a cold weather payment is payable in relation to a recorded period of cold weather as mentioned in regulation 2(1)(a)(i), the person was not in employment or gainful self-employment on any day during that period; or

in a case where a cold weather payment is payable in relation to a forecasted period of weather as mentioned in regulation 2(1)(a)(ii), the person is not in employment or gainful self-employment on the day when the F27Met Office supplies the Department for Work and Pensions with the forecast.

“employment” means employment under a contract of service, or in an office, including an elective office;

a person is in gainful self-employment where—