The Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations 1992

Ineligible service and fuel charges

6.  Housing costs shall not include—

(a) where the costs are inclusive of ineligible service charges within the meaning ofparagraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(1) (ineligible service charges), the amounts attributable to those ineligible service charges or, where that amount is not separated from or separately identified within the housing costs to be met under this paragraph, such part of the payments made in respect of those housing costs which are fairly attributable to the provision of those ineligible services having regard to the costs of comparable services;

(b) where the costs are inclusive of any of the items mentioned in paragraph 5(2) ofSchedule 1 to the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (payment in respect of fuel charges), the deductions prescribed in that paragraph unless the parent provides evidence on which the actual or approximate amount of the service charge for fuel may be estimated, in which case the estimated amount; and

(c) charges for water, sewerage or allied environmental services and where the amount of such charges is not separately identified, such part of the charges in question as is attributable to those services.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1971.