The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995

Amendment of Schedule 9 to the Income Support Regulations

27.  In Schedule 9 to the Income Support Regulations (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)(1)—

(a) in paragraph 2 for the words “voluntary body” there shall be substituted the words “voluntary organisation”;

(b) in paragraph 15A after the words “National Assistance Act 1948,”there shall be inserted the words “sections 13A, 13B and 59(2)(c) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968(2) or section 7 of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984(3)”;

(c) for paragraph 18 there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“18.   Any payment made to the claimant by a person who normally resides with the claimant, which is a contribution towards that person’s living and accommodation costs, except where that person is residing with the claimant in circumstances to which paragraph 19 or 20 refers.”;

(d) in paragraph 19 for the words “a person other than one to whom paragraph 18 or 20 refers,” there shall be substituted the words “another person”.

(1)

Paragraph 15A was inserted in Schedule 9 by S.I.1993/518, regulation 5(5)(c).

(2)

1968 c. 49; sections 13A and 13B were inserted by the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), section 56 and section 59 was amended by Schedule 9 paragraph 10(7) of that Act.

(3)

1984 c. 36.