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staff-013: Does Pension Credit stop is a citizen moves into a care home permanently if they are not self-funding?

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source-c028: DMG Vol 13 Ch 78: State Pension Credit: additional amounts and special groups — PDF page 25

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Permanent care residence, self-funding and partner issues; conditions and continuation matter.

78087 Claimants who are permanently in a care home are normally resident in that care home. Other
residents of the home do not normally reside with the claimant, as they are separately liable to make
payments to a landlord.


Claimants who have no partner (including self- funders)
78088 An additional amount for the severely disabled is applicable to a person who is permanently in a

care home if all the conditions are satisfied1.


Note: This will normally be self funding claimants, but DMs should be aware that it will also include
residents where the payment of “AA” or DLA/PiP continues for the first four weeks after admission.


                                                                   1 SPC Regs, reg 5(1)(b) & Sch I, para 1(1)(a)


Example


Shafaq has no partner and lives at home with his sisters. He is in receipt of the care component of DLA at
the middle rate and no one receives CA, or UC that includes the carer element for caring for him. The
conditions for the award of an additional amount for the disabled are not satisfied. Shafaq goes into a
care home on a permanent basis. The DM decides that Shafaq is entitled to an additional amount for the
disabled at the lower rate from the date that he moves into the care home. This is because


1. he is in receipt of the care component of DLA at the middle rate and


2. the other residents of the home do not normally reside with him and


3. no one is in receipt of CA, or UC that includes the carer element, for caring for him.


Entitlement to the additional amount continues as long as all of the above are satisfied.


Claimants who have a partner
78089 A member of a couple who is permanently in a care home is no longer a member of the same

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source-c030: DMG Vol 13 Ch 78: State Pension Credit: additional amounts and special groups — PDF page 58

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Housing-cost additional amount/HB expenditure and care-home route; not the whole HB scheme.

78270 An additional amount for housing costs should not be allowed for


1. HB expenditure1 or


2. claimants in a care home, unless their absence from the dwelling normally occupied as their home is

temporary2 (see DMG 78240 et seq)




                                                      1 SPC Regs, Sch II, para 5(1)(a); 2 Sch II, para 5(1)(b)


78271 HB expenditure means1 any element for which HB may be payable2.


Note: HB may be payable for such periodical payments as rent, service charges, mooring charges and for
the site on which a caravan or mobile home stands (see DMG 78463).


                                                      1 SPC Regs, Sch II, para 5(1)(a); 2 HB Regs, reg 12(1)




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source-c010: DMG Vol 13 Ch 77: Conditions of entitlement, membership of the household and normal amount payable — PDF page 20

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Household definition candidate; continuation and exceptions required.

77115 The claimant’s household may include


1. the claimant


2. the claimant’s partner


3. any additional spouse in a polygamous marriage case.


This applies even if any of these people are temporarily living apart 1, for example to work or visit
relatives.


Note: See DMG 77140 for guidance on mixed-age couples.


                                                                        1 SPC Regs, reg 5(2); Sch III, para 1(8)


Members of a multiple relationship
77116 There is no special rule to cover multiple relationships. If the claimant is


1. married to one but not all of the other members of the relationship - the DM should treat any
unmarried member as a claimant who has no partner


2. not married to any of the members - the DM should treat each member of the relationship as a
claimant who has no partner. This is because when a claimant has a relationship similar to marriage with
two or more people, none of them can form an unmarried couple.


Example 1


Alan, Bronwyn and Carol live in the same household but are not married to each other. Alan who is aged
65, claims SPC and states that he is in a multiple relationship with both Bronwyn and Carol. He is treated
as a claimant who has no partner and is awarded SPC as a person who has no partner. Bronwyn and Carol
are also treated as claimants who have no partner.

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