Adult Placement arrangements usually do, and certainly should, include a formal licence agreement between the disabled person and the placement provider. This has two effects: 1. it means the disabled person is able to claim HB for the rent they pay to the placement provider under the licence agreement 2. it means the placement provider (and other members of their household) are not non-dependants of the disabled person (Reg.3(2A)(b), IS Regs) so that SDP is payable.
Short version - if HB is payable to the disabled person in an APS placement, so is SDP.
Richard Atkinson
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