## Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 

7. —(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006( a ) are amended as follows. 

(2) In regulation 29 (meaning of “income”), after paragraph 1(j)(xviid) insert— 

“(xviie) any Scottish child payment assistance given in accordance with section 79 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.”. 

(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 6 (capital to be disregarded generally), in paragraph 21(2), after paragraph (s) insert  

“(t) any Scottish child payment assistance given in accordance with section 79 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.”. 

## Amendment of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 

8. —(1) The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008( b ) are amended as follows. 

(2) In Schedule 8 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), after paragraph 71 insert— 

“ 72.  Any Scottish child payment assistance given in accordance with the section 79 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.”. 

(3) In Schedule 9 (capital to be disregarded), in paragraph 11(1)(a), for “8, 10, 11 or 66 of Schedule 8” substitute “8, 10, 11, 66 or 72 of Schedule 8”. 

30th April 2020 

Alister Jack Secretary of State Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland 

