SCHEDULE 8Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings

14.

(1)

Any payment made pursuant to section 1 or 3 of the Employment and Training Act except a payment—

(a)

made as a substitute for an employment and support allowance F1or a jobseeker’s allowance ;

(b)

of an allowance referred to in section 1(1B) of that Act188;

(c)

intended to meet the cost of living expenses which relate to any one or more of the items specified in sub-paragraph (2) whilst a claimant is participating in an education, training or other scheme to help the claimant enhance that claimant’s employment prospects; or

(d)

made in respect of the cost of living away from home to the extent that the payment relates to rent or rates or, as the case may be, both for which housing benefit is payable in respect of accommodation which is not normally occupied by the claimant as that claimant’s home.

(2)

The items specified in this sub-paragraph for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c) are food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel, rent or rates for which housing benefit is payable, or any housing costs to the extent that they are met under regulation 67(1)(c) or 68(1)(d) (housing costs), of the claimant or, where the claimant is a member of a family, any other member of the claimant’s family, or any water charges for which that claimant or member is liable.