31. Where a payment is made on behalf of a parent or a relevant child in respect of food, ordinary clothing or footwear, gas, electricity or fuel charges, housing costs or council tax, an amount equal to the amount which the [F1Secretary of State] estimates represents the value of that payment shall be treated as the income of the parent in question except to the extent that such amount is—
(a)disregarded under paragraph 38 of Schedule 2;
(b)a payment of school fees paid by or on behalf of someone other than the absent parent.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 1 para. 31 substituted (1.6.1999) by The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 7 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1510), arts. 3(1), 19(e)