Regulation 6 Amendment to the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002

for “for paragraph (2), the following provision shall have effect” substitute “the following paragraph shall be added after paragraph (1)”.

for sub-paragraph (b) of the new paragraph (2) to be added to regulation 12 (earnings of self-employed earners) of the Social Security Benefits (Computation of Earnings) Regulations 1996^f3, substitute—

“(b)

any payment made by a local authority to a claimant with whom a person is accommodated by virtue of arrangements made under—

(i)

section 23(2)(a) of the Children Act 1989 (provision of accommodation and maintenance for a child whom they are looking after),

(ii)

section 26 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (manner of provision of accommodation to child looked after by local authority), or

(iii)

regulations 33 or 51 of the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (fostering and kinship care allowances and fostering allowances);”.