Commentary on Sections Other Section 60: Power to stop payment of allowances to care home residents
281.Subsection (1) of this section replaces section 67(2) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, to provide for payment of attendance allowance to be stopped, with new subsections (2) to (7).
282.New subsection (2) confers a power to make regulations providing for circumstances in which payment of attendance allowance may be withdrawn from those resident in a care home, namely where any of the costs of any qualifying services provided in a care home are borne out of public or local funds under a specified enactment.
283.New subsections (3) to (7) define what is meant by a “care home”, “qualifying services” and an “enactment” for these purposes.
284.Subsection (2) of this section replaces section 72(8) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, to provide for the care component of disability living allowance to be stopped, with new subsections (8) to (13).
285.New subsections (8) to (13) confer a power to provide by regulations for circumstances in which payment of the care component of disability living allowance may be withdrawn from those resident in a care home.