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14.—(1) Any payment made pursuant to section 1 or 3 of the Employment and Training Act except a payment—N.I.
(a)made as a substitute for an employment and support allowance;
(b)of an allowance referred to in section 1(1B) of that Act(1);
(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.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 8 para. 14 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)
Subsection (1B) was inserted by Article 3 of the Employment and Training (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1988