PART 6Assessment of household income and capital

CHAPTER 4Unearned income

Calculation of student income – grants61.

Where, in accordance with regulation 59(4), an applicant’s student income is to be based on the amount of a grant, the amount to be taken into account is the whole of the grant excluding any payment—

(a)

intended to meet tuition fees or examination fees,

(b)

in respect of the applicant’s disability,

(c)

intended to meet additional expenditure connected with term time residential study away from the applicant’s educational establishment,

(d)

intended to meet the cost of the applicant maintaining a home at a place other than that at which they reside during their course, except where the applicant has an award of universal credit and that award includes an amount for the housing costs element in respect of those costs,

(e)

intended for the maintenance of another person, except where the applicant has an award of universal credit and that award includes an amount in respect of that person,

(f)

intended to meet the cost of books and equipment,

(g)

intended to meet travel expenses incurred as a result of the applicant’s attendance on the course, or

(h)

intended to meet childcare costs.