The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

[F1 New housing costs E+W+S

8.— (1) Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the new housing costs to be met in any particular case are—

(a) where the claimant has been [F2 entitled to] income support for a continuous period of 39 weeks or more, an amount—

(i) determined in the manner set out in paragraph 10 by applying the standard rate to the eligible capital for the time being owing in connection with a loan which qualifies under paragraph 15 or 16; and

(ii) equal to any payments which qualify under paragraph 17(1)(a) to (c);

(b) in any other case, nil.

[F3 (1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) [F4 and subject to sub-paragraph (1B),] the eligible capital for the time being owing shall be determined on the date the new housing costs are first met and thereafter on each anniversary of that date.]

[F5 (1B) Where a claimant or his partner ceases to be in receipt of or treated as being in receipt of income-based jobseeker’s allowance [F6 or state pension credit] and one of them becomes entitled to income support in a case to which paragraph 1A applies, the eligible capital for the time being owing shall be recalculated on each anniversary of the date on which the housing costs were first met for whichever of the benefits concerned the claimant or his partner was first entitled.]

(2) This sub-paragraph applies to a claimant who at the time the claim is made—

[F7 (a) is a person to whom paragraph 4 or 5 of Schedule 1B (persons caring for another person) applies;]

(b) is detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction; or

(c) has been refused payments under a policy of insurance on the ground that

(i) the claim under the policy is the outcome of a pre-existing medical condition which, under the terms of the policy, does not give rise to any payment by the insurer; or

(ii) he was infected by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus,

and the policy was taken out to insure against the risk of being unable to maintain repayments on a loan which is secured by a mortgage or a charge over land, or (in Scotland) by a heritable security.

(3) This sub-paragraph applies subject to sub-paragraph (5) where a person claims income support because of—

(a) the death of a partner; or

(b) being abandoned by his partner,

and where the person’s family includes a child.

(4) In the case of a claimant to whom sub-paragraph (2) or (3) applies, any new housing costs shall be met as though they were existing housing costs and paragraph 6 applied to them.

(5) Sub-paragraph (3) shall cease to apply to a person who subsequently becomes one of a couple.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 3 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Income Support and Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1613), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1

F2 Words in Sch. 3 para. 8(1) substituted (12.12.1995) by The Social Security (Income Support, Claims and Payments and Adjudication) Amendment Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2927), regs. 1(1), 5(7)(a)

F3 Sch. 3 para. 8(1A) inserted (12.12.1995) by The Social Security (Income Support, Claims and Payments and Adjudication) Amendment Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2927), regs. 1(1), 5(7)(b)

F4 Words in Sch. 3 para. 8(1A) inserted (22.10.1997) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2305), regs. 1, 2(2)(d)

F5 Sch. 3 para. 8(1B) inserted (22.10.1997) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2305), regs. 1, 2(2)(e)

F6 Words in Sch. 3 para. 8(1B) inserted (6.10.2003) by The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(6)(b)

F7 Sch. 3 para. 8(2)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 24(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 3 para. 8(1)(b): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/632), art. 16(8), Sch. 5