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Amendments to the Housing Grants (Assessment of Contributions) (Scotland) Regulations 2003

11.  After regulation 23 insert–

23A.  Any periodic payments of income, other than a payment of income made under any of the McFarlane Trusts, the Eileen Trust, the Skipton Fund, the variant Creutzfeld Jakob Trusts, the Independent Living Funds or the Fund, made–

(a)to a third party in respect of a relevant person to the extent that it is used for the food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel or rent of the relevant person or the relevant person’s family;

(b)to a relevant person or member of the relevant person’s family in respect of a third party, to the extent that it is kept or used by the relevant person or used on behalf of the relevant person’s family,

shall be taken into account as income of the relevant person..