The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988

Amendment of Schedule 3 to the General Regulations

20.  In Schedule 3 to the General Regulations (housing costs)—

(a) in paragraph 1 for the words “regulation 17(e) or 18(f)” there shall be substituted the words “regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f)”;

(b) in paragraph 7, at the end of sub-paragraph (9) there shall be added the following—

“(f) where—

(i) the claimant was a member of a family of a person (not being a former partner) entitled to income support and at least one other member of that family was a child or young person; and

(ii) the claimant becomes a member of another family which includes that child or young person; and

(iii) the claimant made his claim for income support within 8 weeks of the date on which the person entitled to income support mentioned in (i) above ceased to be so entitled,

the claimant shall be treated as being in receipt of income support for the same period as that person had been or had been treated, for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), as having been.”.