{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-disability-assistance-consequential-amendments-order-2025/article-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/227",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-disability-assistance-consequential-amendments-order-2025",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002",
  "text": "(1) The State Pension Credit Regulations 2002 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation), after the definition of “qualifying person”, insert—\n““Scottish adult disability living allowance” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025;”.\n(3) In Schedule 1 (additional amounts)—\n(a) in paragraph 1—\n(i) in sub-paragraphs (1)(a)(i), (b)(i), (c)(i) and (2)(a), after “the 1992 Act”, insert “, the care component of Scottish adult disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate in accordance with regulation 6(4) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025”;\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (2)(bc), insert—\n“(bd) for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b) as being in receipt of the care component of Scottish adult disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate in accordance with regulation 6(4) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025, if that person would, but for regulation 23 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Scottish adult disability living allowance) of those Regulations, be so in receipt;”;\n(b) in paragraph 2(2)(a), after “the 1992 Act”, insert “, the care component of Scottish adult disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate in accordance with regulation 6(4) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025”.\n(4) In paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 (housing costs)—\n(a) after sub-paragraph (6)(b)(ii), insert—\n“(iia) the care component of Scottish adult disability living allowance;”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (8)(a), after “disability living allowance”, insert “, Scottish adult disability living allowance”.\n(5) In paragraph 9 of Schedule 2A (additional amount applicable for claimants responsible for a child or qualifying young person)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (2), after “disability living allowance”, insert “, Scottish adult disability living allowance”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (3)(a), after “at the highest rate”, insert “, the care component of Scottish adult disability living allowance at the highest rate”.\n(6) In paragraph 1(9) of Schedule 3 (special groups), after “the 1992 Act”, insert “, the care component of Scottish adult disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate in accordance with regulation 6(4) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025”.\n(7) In paragraph 4(1)(a) of Schedule 6 (sums disregarded from claimant’s earnings), after sub-paragraph (iv), insert—\n“(iva) Scottish adult disability living allowance;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/1792; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2004/1141, 2005/3391, 2010/641, 2011/2425, 2013/388, 2013/591, 2015/1754, 2017/329, 2017/689, 2017/870, 2018/676, 2020/618, 2021/786, 2021/1405, 2022/177, 2023/1144, 2023/1218, 2023/640 and 2024/919."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/227/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:49.677032+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}