The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998

Common amendments: Disregard of income other than earnings E+W+S

7.—(1) In each of the paragraphs of the Schedules to the Regulations specified in paragraph (2) below (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) the following head shall be added bearing the specified letter—

“which is a payment made by an authority, as defined in Article 2 of the Children Order, in pursuance of Article 15 of, and paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 to, that Order (contribution by an authority to child’s maintenance);”.

(2) The paragraphs of the Schedules specified in this paragraph and the specified head in those paragraphs are—

F1 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) head (c) of paragraph 22(1) of Schedule 3 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations;

(c) head (c) of paragraph 22(1) of Schedule 2 to the Family Credit Regulations M1 ;

F2 (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(e) head (d) of paragraph 26(1) of Schedule 7 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations.

(3) For each of the paragraphs of the Schedules to the Regulations specified in paragraph (4) below (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“Any payment made to the claimant or his partner for a person (“the person concerned"), who is not normally a member of the claimant’s household but is temporarily in his care, by—

(a) a health authority;

(b) a local authority;

(c) a voluntary organisation; or

(d) the person concerned pursuant to section 26(3A) of the National Assistance Act 1948 M2 .”.

(4) The paragraphs of the Schedules to the Regulations specified in this paragraph are—

F3 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) paragraph 24 of Schedule 3 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations;

(c) paragraph 24 of Schedule 2 to the Family Credit Regulations;

F4 (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(e) paragraph 27 of Schedule 9 to the Income Support Regulations; and

(f) paragraph 28 of Schedule 7 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations.

F5 (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F6 (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 7(2)(a) revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)

F2 Reg. 7(2)(d) revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)

F3 Reg. 7(4)(a) revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)

F4 Reg. 7(4)(d) revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)

F5 Reg. 7(5) revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)

F6 Reg. 7(6) revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)

Marginal Citations

M1 Paragraph 22(1)(b) was substituted by S.I.1992/573.

M2 1948 c.29; section 26(3A) was inserted by section 42(4) of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c.19).