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PIP and ‘severely mentally impaired’ for council tax liability?
Not sure which part of the forum to place this….
Looking to find the Statutory Instrument that amended either the Council Tax (Discount Disregards) Order 1992 or the Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) Regs 1992 so as to introduce a disregard for the severely mentally impaired and to define the qualifying benefits for that purpose. And then the SI that further amended the provisions so as to include the daily living component of PIP as a qualifying benefit.
Unfortunately, cannot find a consolidated version of the legislation anywhere and though I have found para 3 of the Schhedule to The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 - SI 2013 No. 388 - without being able to track down the provision being amended, I’m worried that this might be amending the ‘care worker’ provisions rather than the SMI provisions….
The discount was in the original act.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/14/schedule/1/enacted
The qualifying benefits were listed in the original order.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/548/article/3/made
References to PIP were inserted by this. See the explanatory note.
Thanks a lot. That’s it sorted.