Eligible Housing CostsE+W+S
1. Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the amounts which may be applicable to a person in respect of mortgage interest payments or other prescribed housing costs under [F1regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f)] (applicable amounts) are—
(a)mortgage interest payments;
[F2(aa)interest payments under a hire purchase agreement to buy the dwelling occupied as a home;]
(b)interest on loans for repairs and improvements to the dwelling occupied as the home[F3, including interest on a loan for any service charge imposed to meet the cost of such repairs and improvements;]
[F4(c)payments by way of rent or ground rent relating to a long tenancy and, in Scotland, payments by way of feu duty,]
(d)payments under a co-ownership scheme;
(e)payments under or relating to a tenancy or licence of a Crown tenant;
(f)service charges;
(g)where the dwelling occupied as the home is a tent, payments in respect of the tent and the site on which it stands;
F5(h). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 3 para. 1 substituted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 20(a)
F2Sch. 3 para. 1(aa) inserted (12.12.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 5 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/2022), regs. 1(1)(a), 18(a)
F3Words in Sch. 3 para. 1(b) inserted (2.2.1993) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/30), regs. 1, 2(a)
F4Sch. 3 para. 1(c) substituted (11.4.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 30(a)
F5Sch. 3 para. 1(h) omitted (2.2.1993) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/30), regs. 1, 2(b)
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 3 para. 1 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1