Income-related benefits: Disregard of contribution to a student grant
9.—(1) In each of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) (disregard of contribution) for the words from “the income”, where they first appear, to the end there shall be substituted—
“, for the purposes of assessing a contribution to the student’s grant, the other partner’s income has been taken into account, an amount equal to that contribution shall be disregarded for the purposes of assessing that other partner’s income.”.
(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are—
(a)regulation 67 of the Income Support Regulations;
(b)regulation 58(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations;
(c)regulation 43 of the Family Credit Regulations;
(d)regulation 48 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations.