The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988

Amendment of Schedule 7 to the General Regulations

33.  In Schedule 7 to the General Regulations (special cases)—

(a) in column (1), in paragraphs 9 and 10, Sub-paragraph (c) in each of those paragraphs shall be omitted;

(b) after paragraph 10 there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“Single claimants temporarily in local authority accommodation 10A.   Except where paragraph 10B(4) applies, a single claimant who is temporarily in accommodation referred to in any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition of residential accommodation in regulation 21(3) (special cases).	10A.   The applicable amount in respect of him prescribed under regulation 17.
Couples and members of polygamous marriages where one member is or all are temporarily in local authority accommodation 10B.   — (1) A claimant who is a member of a couple and temporarily separated from his partner where one of them is living in the home while the other is in accommodation referred to in any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition of residential accommodation in regulation 21(3) (special cases).	(1) The aggregate of the amount applicable for the member who remains in the home calculated as if he were a single claimant under regulation 17, 19, 20 or 21 and in respect of the other member, £41.15 of which £32.90 is in respect of the cost of the accommodation and £8.25 for personal expenses.
(2) A claimant who is a member of a polygamous marriage and who is temporarily separated from a partner of his where one is, or some are, living in the home while one is, or some are, in accommodation referred to in sub-paragraph (1).	(2) The aggregate of the amount applicable, for the members of the polygamous marriage who remain in the home, under regulation 18 and in respect of each member not in the home £41.15 of which £32.90 is in respect of the accommodation and £8.25 for personal expenses.
(3) A claimant who is a member of a couple or a member of a polygamous marriage where both members of that couple or all the members of that marriage are in accommodation referred to in sub-paragraph (1).	(3) For each member of that couple or marriage £41.15, of which £32.90 is in respect of the accommodation and £8.25 for personal expenses plus, if appropriate, the amount applicable under regulation 17(e) or 18(f).
(4) A claimant who is a member of a couple or of a polygamous marriage to whom regulation 16(1) (members of the household) does not apply by virtue of sub-paragraph (3)(c) of that regulation where the member is in accommodation referred to in subparagraph (1).	(4) £41.15 of which £32.90 is in respect of the accommodation and £8.25 for personal expenses”;

(c) in column (1), in paragraph 16(a) for the words “of regulation 21(3)” there shall be substituted the words “of the definition of residential accommodation in regulation 21(3)”:

(d) in column 2, in paragraph 18—

(i) in paragraph (b)(ii), in case three, for the words “sub-paragraph (b)(iii)” there shall be substituted the words “Sub-paragraph (b)(ii)”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b)(iii), in case two, for the words “sub-paragraph (b)(ii)” there shall be substituted the words “sub-paragraph (b)(iii)”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (b)(iv), in case two, for the words “a member” and “that member” there shall be substituted in both places the words “each member”;

(iv) in sub-paragraph (b)(iv), in case four, for the words from and including “and the member of the couple” to and including “lone parent patient” there shall be substituted the words “remaining in the accommodation and the members of the couple or polygamous marriage”.