Pension credit

If you are entitled to CA and this stops, the carer addition (part of your pension credit (PC)) stops eight weeks after your entitlement to CA stops (see here).1Sch 1 para 4(3) SPC Regs Some PC claimants who are responsible for a child or qualifying young person get an additional amount for her/him in their PC (instead of getting CTC). If you get a PC additional amount for a child and s/he goes to residential school, and the child does not count as looked after by the local authority, the additional amount continues during a temporary period away at school which is unlikely to last for more than 52 weeks or, in exceptional circumstances, unlikely to last for substantially more than 52 weeks.2Sch 2A para 6 SPC Regs The higher amounts that may be paid because your child has a disability (see here) continue even if DLA care component or PIP daily living component for your child has stopped being paid.3Sch 2A para 9 SPC Regs If your child is away at school and counts as looked after by the local authority, you no longer get the PC additional amount unless it is a ‘planned short break’ (respite).4Sch 2A para 4 SPC Regs

 

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