The Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022

Effect of legal detention on payment of the mobility component: 16 and 17 year olds

13.—(1) Sub-paragraph (2) and (3) apply where a transferring individual—

(a) is aged 16 or 17 on the date of transfer,

(b) was in legal detention immediately before the date of transfer, and

(c) was entitled to the mobility component of Personal Independence Payment immediately before the date of transfer.

(2) Entitlement to the mobility component of Adult Disability Payment of a transferring individual mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) is to begin before the date of the determination under paragraph 9(1) but not before 13 June 2022.

(3) Where the transferring individual has received payment of the mobility component of Personal Independence Payment for any period after the date on which their entitlement to the mobility component of Adult Disability Payment commences under sub-paragraph (2), any payment of Adult Disability Payment to be made for that period is to be reduced by the amount already paid to the transferring individual for the mobility component of Personal Independence Payment for that period.