SCHEDULE 7 Applicable amounts in special cases

Part I Provisions in Schedule 7 to the Income Support Regulations as Amended by this Order

Persons in homes for persons in need or nursing homes who become patients 16.  A claimant to whom regulation 19 applies immediately before he or a member of his family became a patient where— (a) he or any member of his family has been a patient for a period of 6 weeks or less and the claimant— (i) continues to be liable to meet the weekly charge for the accommodation without reduction in respect of himself or that member of his family who is a patient, (ii) continues to be liable to meet the weekly charge for the accommodation but at a reduced rate, (iii) is a single claimant and is likely to return to the accommodation, but has ceased to be liable to meet the weekly charge for that accommodation, or (iv) is a single claimant who ceases to be liable to meet the weekly charge for the accommodation and who is unlikely to return to that accommodation;