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Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 1967

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

Made

20th November 1987

Coming into Force

11th April 1988

Whereas a draft of this instrument was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 83(3) of the Social Security Act 1986 and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 20(1), (3)(d), (4), (9), (11) and (12), 22(1), (2), (4) and (5) to (9), 23(1), (3) and (5), 51(1)(n) and 84(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 F1 and sections 114, 166(1) to (3A) of the Social Security Act 1975 F2 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf by this instrument, which is made before the end of a period of 12 months from the commencement of the enactments under which it is made, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Textual Amendments

F11986 c. 50; section 84(1) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meanings assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”.

F21975 c. 14; section 114 is applied by section 52(3)(b) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50); section 166(3A) is inserted by section 62 of that Act and section 166(1) to (3A) is applied by section 83(1) of that Act.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

PART IE+W+SGENERAL

Citation and commencementE+W+S

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 11th April 1988.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 1 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

InterpretationE+W+S

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

[F3“the 2012 Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2012;]

[F4Abbeyfield Home” means an establishment run by the Abbeyfield Society including all bodies corporate or incorporate which are affiliated to that Society;]

the Act” means the Social Security Act 1986;

[F5“adoption leave” means a period of absence from work on ordinary or additional adoption leave by virtue of section 75A or 75B of the Employment Rights Act 1996;]

[F6adult disability payment” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022;]

[F7“approved blood scheme” means a scheme established or approved by the Secretary of State, or trust established with funds provided by the Secretary of State, for the purpose of providing compensation in respect of a person having been infected from contaminated blood products;]

[F8the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme” means the scheme established under section 1(2) of the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004;]

[F9“armed forces independence payment’’ means armed forces independence payment under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011;]

attendance allowance” means—

(a)

an attendance allowance under section 35 of the Social Security ActF10;

(b)

an increase of disablement pension under section 61 or 63 of that ActF11;

(c)

a payment under regulations made in exercise of the power conferred by section 159(3)(b) of that Act;

(d)

an increase of an allowance which is payable in respect of constant attendance under section 5 of the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975F12;

(e)

a payment by virtue of article 14, 15, 16, 43 or 44 of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983F13 or any analogous payment; or

(f)

any payment based on need for attendance which is paid as part of a war disablement pension;

[F14“basic rate”, where it relates to the rate of tax, has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Act 2007 (see section 989 of that Act);]

[F15“the benefit Acts" means the Contributions and Benefits Act [F16, the Jobseekers Act 1995 [F17, Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act [F18, Part 4 of the 2012 Act and [F19Parts 1 and 5 of the Pensions Act 2014]]]];]

benefit week” has the meaning prescribed in paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987F20; [F21and for the purposes of calculating any payment of income and of regulation 74(2)(a) “benefit week” shall also mean the period of 7 days ending on the day before the first day of the first benefit week following the date of claim or the last day on which income support is paid if it is in payment for less than a week;]

[F22“board and lodging accommodation” means—

(a)

accommodation provided to a person or, if he is a member of a family, to him or any other member of his family, for a charge which is inclusive of the provision of that accommodation and at least some cooked or prepared meals which both are cooked or prepared (by a person other than the person to whom the accommodation is provided or a member of his family) and are consumed in that accommodation or associated premises; or

(b)

accommodation provided to a person in a hotel, guest house, lodging house or some similar establishment,

except accommodation provided by a close relative of his or of any other member of his family, or other than on a commercial basis;]

[F4care home” in England F23... has the meaning assigned to it by section 3 of the Care Standards Act 2000, [F24in Wales means a care home service within the meaning of Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 which is provided wholly or mainly to persons aged 18 or over] and in Scotland means a care home service within the meaning assigned to it by [F25paragraph 2 of schedule 12 to the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010];]

[F26carer support payment” means carer’s assistance given in accordance with the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023;]

[F27“child abuse payment” means a payment from a scheme established or approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing compensation in respect of historic institutional child abuse in the United Kingdom;]

[F28child disability payment” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the DACYP Regulations;]

[F29“child tax credit” means a child tax credit under section 8 of the Tax Credits Act 2002;]

[F30“the Children Order" means the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;]

claimant” means a person claiming income support;

close relative” means a parent, parent-in-law, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, step-parent, step-son, step-daughter, brother, sister, [F31or, if any of the preceding persons is one member of a couple, the other member of that couple];

F32...

concessionary payment” means a payment made under arrangements made by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury which is charged either to the National Insurance Fund or to a Departmental Expenditure Vote to which payments of benefit [F33or tax credits under the benefit Acts or the Tax Credits Act 2002] are charged;

[F34“the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;]

[F35“contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance” means an allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995 as amended by the provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 14 to the 2012 Act that remove references to an income-based allowance, and a contribution-based allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995 as that Act has effect apart from those provisions;]

[F36“the Contributions Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001;]

[F37“contributory employment and support allowance” means an allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act as amended by the provisions of Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the 2012 Act that remove references to an income-related allowance, and a contributory allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act as that Part has effect apart from those provisions;]

co-ownership scheme” means a scheme under which a dwelling is let by a housing association and the tenant, or his personal representative, will, under the terms of the tenancy agreement or of the agreement under which he became a member of the association, be entitled, on his ceasing to be a member and subject to any condition stated in either agreement, to a sum calculated by reference directly or indirectly to the value of the dwelling;

[F38“couple” means—

(a)

two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household; or

(b)

two people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together [F39as if they were a married couple or civil partners];]

[F40“course of study" means any course of study, whether or not it is a sandwich course (within the meaning prescribed in regulation 61(1)) and whether or not a grant is made for attending or undertaking it;]

Crown tenant” means a person who occupies a dwelling under a tenancy or licence where the interest of the landlord belongs to Her Majesty in right of the Crown or to a government department or is held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department, except (in the case of an interest belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown) where the interest is under the management of the Crown Estate Commissioners [F41or a relevant person];

[F42DACYP Regulations” means the Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021;]

[F43“date of claim” means the date on which the claimant makes, or is treated as making, a claim for income support for the purposes of regulation 6 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987;]

[F44“disability living allowance” means a disability living allowance under section 37ZA of the Social Security Act;]

F45...

dwelling occupied as the home” means the dwelling together with any garage, garden and outbuildings, normally occupied by the claimant as his home including any premises not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately, in particular, in Scotland, any croft land on which the dwelling is situated.

earnings” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 35 or, as the case may be, 37;

F46...

employed earner” shall be construed in accordance with section 2(1)(a) of the Social Security Act;

[F47employment” except for the purposes of section 20(3)(d) of the Act, includes any trade, business, profession, office or vocation;]

F48...

[F49the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations” means the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008;]

F50...

[F51“employment zone” means an area within Great Britain designated for the purposes of section 60 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 and an “employment zone programme” means a programme established for such an area or areas designed to assist claimants for a jobseeker’s allowance to obtain sustainable employment;]

[F51“employment zone contractor” means a person who is undertaking the provision of facilities in respect of an employment zone programme on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education and Employment;]

[F52“enactment” includes an enactment comprised in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament [F53or the National Assembly for Wales];]

[F54“first year of training” means a period of one year beginning with a person’s first day of training.]

F55...

[F56“full-time student" has the meaning prescribed in regulation 61(1); ]

[F57Grenfell Tower payment” means a payment made for the purpose of providing compensation or support in respect of the fire on 14th June 2017 at Grenfell Tower;]

[F8"a guaranteed income payment" means a payment made under article 14(1)(b) or article 21(1)(a) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005;]

[F58Health Service Act” means the National Health Service Act 2006;]

[F58Health Service (Wales) Act” means the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;]

[F59the Horizon system” means any version of the computer system used by the Post Office known as Horizon, Horizon Legacy, Horizon Online or HNG-X;]

housing association” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(1) of the Housing Associations Act 1985F60;

[F61“housing benefit expenditure" means expenditure in respect of which housing benefit is payable as specified in [F62regulation 12(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006] but does not include any such expenditure in respect of which an amount is applicable under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs);]

[F63“Immigration and Asylum Act" means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;]

F64...

[F65income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (employment and support allowance);]

[F66“independent hospital”—

(a)

in England, means a hospital as defined by section 275 of the National Health Service Act 2006 that is not a health service hospital as defined by that section;

(b)

in Wales, has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000; and

(c)

in Scotland, means an independent healthcare service as defined in [F67section 10F(1)(a) and (b) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978];]

F68...

invalid carriage or other vehicle” means a vehicle propelled by petrol engine or by electric power supplied for use on the road and to be controlled by the occupant;

[F69“last day of the course" has the meaning prescribed in regulation 61(1);]

liable relative” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 54;

[F70“local welfare provision” means occasional financial or other assistance given by a local authority, the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers, or a person authorised to exercise any function of, or provide a service to, them, to or in respect of individuals for the purpose of—

(a)

meeting, or helping to meet, an immediate short term need—

(i)

arising out of an exceptional event, or exceptional circumstances; and

(ii)

that requires to be met in order to avoid a risk to the well-being of an individual; or

(b)

enabling individuals to establish or maintain a settled home, where those individuals have been or, without the assistance, might otherwise be—

(i)

in prison, hospital, a residential care establishment or other institution; or

(ii)

homeless or otherwise living an unsettled way of life;]

lone parent” means a person who has no partner and who is responsible for, and a member of the same household as, a child or young person;

long tenancy” means a tenancy granted for a term of years certain exceeding twenty one years, whether or not the tenancy is, or may become, terminable before the end of that term by notice given by or to the tenant or by re-entry, forfeiture (or, in Scotland, irritancy) or otherwise and includes a lease for a term fixed by law under a grant with a covenant or obligation for perpetual renewal unless it is a lease by sub-demise from one which is not a long tenancy;

[F71“long-term patient” means a person who—

(a)

is a patient within the meaning of regulation 21(3); and

(b)

has been such a patient for a continuous period of more than 52 weeks;]

F72...

[F73“the Mandatory Work Activity Scheme” means a scheme within section 17A of the Jobseekers Act 1995, known by that name and provided pursuant to arrangements made by the Secretary of State that is designed to provide work or work-related activity for up to 30 hours per week over a period of four consecutive weeks with a view to assisting claimants to improve their prospects of obtaining employment;]

[F43“maternity leave” means a period during which a woman is absent from work because she is pregnant or has given birth to a child, and at the end of which she has a right to return to work either under the terms of her contract of employment or under [F74Part VIII of the Employment Rights Act 1996];]

[F75“member of the support group” means a claimant who has or is treated as having limited capability for work-related activity under either—

(a)

Part 6 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008; or

(b)

Part 5 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013;]

[F75“member of the work-related activity group” means a claimant who has or is treated as having limited capability for work under either—

(a)

Part 5 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 other than by virtue of regulation 30 of those Regulations; or

(b)

Part 4 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013 other than by virtue of regulation 26 of those Regulations;]

[F76“MFET Limited” means the company limited by guarantee (number 7121661) of that name, established for the purpose in particular of making payments in accordance with arrangements made with the Secretary of State to persons who have acquired HIV as a result of treatment by the NHS with blood or blood products ;]

F77...

mobility supplement” means any supplement under [F78article 20 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006] including such a supplement by virtue of any other scheme or order or under Article 25A of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983F79;

[F80“the National Emergencies Trust” means the registered charity of that name (number 1182809) established on 28th March 2019;]

net earnings” means such earnings as are calculated in accordance with regulation 36;

net profit” means such profit as is calculated in accordance with regulation 38;

[F81“the New Deal options” means the employment programmes specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(ii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 and the training scheme specified in regulation 75(1)(b)(ii) of those Regulations;]

non-dependant” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 3;

non-dependant deduction” means a deduction that is to be made under regulation 17(e) and paragraph [F8218] of Schedule 3;

F83...

occupational pension” means any pension or other periodical payment under an occupational pension scheme but does not include any discretionary payment out of a fund established for relieving hardship in particular cases;

[F84“parental bereavement leave” means leave under section 80EA of the Employment Rights Act 1996;]

partner” means where a claimant—

(a)

is a member of [F85a couple], the other member of that couple;

(b)

is married polygamously to two or more members of his household, any such member;

[F86“paternity leave” means a period of absence from work on F87... paternity leave by virtue of section 80A or 80B of the Employment Rights Act 1996F88...;]

payment” includes a part of a payment;

[F89“pay period” means the period in respect of which a claimant is, or expects to be, normally paid by his employer, being a week, a fortnight, four weeks, a month or other shorter or longer period as the case may be;]

[F90“pension fund holder" means with respect to a personal pension scheme or [F91an occupational pension scheme], the trustees, managers or scheme administrators, as the case may be, of the scheme F92... concerned;]

[F93“period of study" means the period beginning with the date on which a person starts attending or undertaking a course of study and ending with the last day of the course or such earlier date (if any) as he finally abandons it or is dismissed from it;]

[F3“personal independence payment” means personal independence payment under Part 4 of the 2012 Act;]

[F94“personal pension scheme” means—

(a)

a personal pension scheme as defined by section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993;

(b)

an annuity contract or trust scheme approved under section 620 or 621 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 or a substituted contract within the meaning of section 622(3) of that Act which is treated as having become a registered pension scheme by virtue of paragraph 1(1)(f) of Schedule 36 to the Finance Act 2004;

(c)

a personal pension scheme approved under Chapter 4 of Part 14 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 which is treated as having become a registered pension scheme by virtue of paragraph 1(1)(g) of Schedule 36 to the Finance Act 2004;]

policy of life insurance” means any instrument by which the payment of money is assured on death (except death by accident only) or the happening of any contingency dependent on human life, or any instrument evidencing a contract which is subject to payment of premiums for a term dependent on human life;

[F95“polygamous marriage” means any marriage during the subsistence of which a party to it is married to more than one person and the ceremony of marriage took place under the law of a country which permits polygamy;]

[F96the Post Office” means Post Office Limited (registered number 02154540);]

[F96Post Office compensation payment” means a payment made by the Post Office or the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing compensation or support which is—

(a)

in connection with the failings of the Horizon system; or

(b)

otherwise payable following the judgment in Bates and Others v Post Office Ltd ((No. 3) “Common Issues”);]

F97...

[F52“public authority” includes any person certain of whose functions are functions of a public nature;]

[F98“qualifying person” means a person in respect of whom [F99a Grenfell Tower payment [F100, a child abuse payment [F101, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] has been made or] payment has been made from the Fund [F102, the Eileen Trust [F103, MFET Limited] [F104, the Skipton Fund] [F105, the Caxton Foundation] [F106, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F107, an approved blood scheme] [F108, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund] [F109, the National Emergencies Trust] [F110, the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme] or the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund];]

F111...

relative” means close relative, grand-parent, grand-child, uncle, aunt, nephew or neice;

relevant enactment” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 16(8)(a);

[F112“relevant person”, in relation to any property, rights or interests to which section 90B(5) of the Scotland Act 1998 applies, means the person who manages that property or those rights or interests;]

remunerative work” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 5;

F83...

F113...

F83...

F114...

[F115“Scottish basic rate” means the rate of income tax of that name calculated in accordance with section 6A of the Income Tax Act 2007;]

[F116“Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme” means the scheme of that name administered by the Common Services Agency (constituted by section 10 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978);]

[F115“Scottish taxpayer” has the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Part 4A of the Scotland Act 1998;]

self-employed earner” shall be construed in accordance with section 2(1)(b) of the Social Security Act;

[F117self-employment route” means assistance in pursuing self-employed earner’s employment whilst participating in—

(a)

an employment zone programme; or

(b)

a programme provided or other arrangements made pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (functions of the Secretary of State) or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (functions in relation to training for employment etc.);]

F118...

[F119“shared parental leave” means leave under section 75E or 75G of the Employment Rights Act 1996;]

single claimant” means a claimant who neither has a partner nor is a lone parent;

Social Security Act” means the Social Security Act 1975F120;

[F121“sports award" means an award made by one of the Sports Councils named in section 23(2) of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 out of sums allocated to it for distribution under that section;]

F122...

F123...

[F51“subsistence allowance” means an allowance which an employment zone contractor has agreed to pay to a person who is participating in an employment zone programme;]

supplementary benefit” means a supplementary pension or allowance under section 1 or 4 of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976F124;

“terminal date” in respect of a claimant means the terminal date in his case for the purposes of regulation 7 of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 1976 F125;

[F126“the Caxton Foundation” means the charitable trust of that name established on 28th March 2011 out of funds provided by the Secretary of State for the benefit of certain persons suffering from hepatitis C and other persons eligible for payment in accordance with its provisions;]

F46...

[F127“the Eileen Trust” means the charitable trust of that name established on 29th March 1993 out of funds provided by the Secretary of State for the benefit of persons eligible for payment in accordance with its provisions;]

[F98“the Fund” means moneys made available from time to time by the Secretary of State for the benefit of persons eligible for payment in accordance with the provisions of a scheme established by him on 24th April 1992 or, in Scotland, on 10th April 1992;]

F128...

F129...

F130...

[F131“the Independent Living Fund (2006)” means the Trust of that name established by a deed dated 10th April 2006 and made between the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions of the one part and Margaret Rosemary Cooper, Michael Beresford Boyall and Marie Theresa Martin of the other part;]

F132...

[F133the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund” means the company limited by guarantee (number 5505072) and registered charity of that name established on 11th July 2005 for the purpose of (amongst other things) relieving sickness, disability or financial need of victims (including families or dependants of victims) of the terrorist attacks carried out in London on 7th July 2005;]

[F134“the London Emergencies Trust” means the company of that name (number 09928465) incorporated on 23rd December 2015 and the registered charity of that name (number 1172307) established on 28th March 2017;]

[F135“the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust” means the trust of that name, established on 29th January 1990 partly out of funds provided by the Secretary of State, for the benefit of certain persons suffering from haemophilia;]

[F136“the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No. 2) Trust" means the trust of that name, established on 3rd May 1991 partly out of funds provided by the Secretary of State, for the benefit of certain persons suffering from haemophilia and other beneficiaries;]

[F137“the Macfarlane Trust” means the charitable trust, established partly out of funds provided by the Secretary of State to the Haemophilia Society, for the relief of poverty or distress among those suffering from haemophilia;]

[F138the Skipton Fund” means the ex-gratia payment scheme administered by the Skipton Fund Limited, incorporated on 25th March 2004, for the benefit of certain persons suffering from hepatitis C and other persons eligible for payment in accordance with the scheme’s provisions;]

training allowance” means an allowance (whether by way of periodical grants or otherwise) payable—

(a)

out of public funds by a Government department or by or on behalf of the [F139Secretary of State F140...][F141, [F142Skills Development Scotland,] Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise][F143, F144... F140... or the [F145Welsh Ministers]];

(b)

to a person for his maintenance or in respect of a member of his family; and

(c)

for the period, or part of the period, during which he is following a course of training or instruction provided by, or in pursuance of arrangements made with, that department or approved by that department in relation to him or so provided or approved by or on behalf of [F146the Secretary of State F147...][F141, [F142Skills Development Scotland,] Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise] [F148or the [F145Welsh Ministers]],

but it does not include an allowance paid by any Government department to or in respect of a person by reason of the fact that he is following a course of full-time education[F149, other than under arrangements made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973,] or is training as a teacher;

[F150“universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the 2012 Act;]

[F151vaccine damage payment” means a payment made under the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979;]

[F152the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme” means the scheme of that name established by the Ministry of Justice in 2012 under section 47 of the Crime and Security Act 2010;]

[F153“voluntary organisation” means a body, other than a public or local authority, the activities of which are carried on otherwise than for profit;]

[F154“war disablement pension” means any retired pay or pension or allowance payable in respect of disablement under an instrument specified in section 639(2) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003;]

[F154“war pension” means a war disablement pension, a war widow’s pension or a war widower’s pension;]

[F154“war widow’s pension” means any pension or allowance payable to a woman as a widow under an instrument specified in section 639(2) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 in respect of the death or disablement of any person;]

[F154“war widower’s pension” means any pension or allowance payable to a man as a widower or to a surviving civil partner under an instrument specified in section 639(2) of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 in respect of the death or disablement of any person;]

F155...

[F156“water charges” means—

(a)

as respects England and Wales, any water and sewerage charges under Chapter I of Part V of the Water Industry Act 1991;

(b)

as respects Scotland, any water and sewerage charges under Schedule 11 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992;

in so far as such charges are in respect of the dwelling which a person occupies as his home;]

[F157“the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund” means the registered charity of that name (number 1173260) established on 30th May 2017;]

[F158the Welfare Reform Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2007;]

[F159“welfare to work beneficiary" means a person–

(a)

to whom regulation 13A(1) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995 applies; and

(b)

who again becomes incapable of work for the purposes of Part XIIA of the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;]

[F27“Windrush payment” means a payment made under the Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Act 2020;]

[F160“working tax credit” means a working tax credit under section 10 of the Tax Credits Act 2002;]

F45...

[F161“year of assessment” has the meaning prescribed in section 832(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;]

young person” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 14.

[F162F163... [F164youth training”] means—

(a)

arrangements made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (functions of the Secretary of State); or

(b)

arrangements made by the Secretary of State for persons enlisted in Her Majesty’s forces for any special term of service specified in regulations made under section 2 of the Armed Forces Act 1966 (power of Defence Council to make regulations as to engagement of persons in regular forces),

for purposes which include the training of persons who, at the beginning of their training, are under the age of 18.]

[F165(1A) For the purposes of these Regulations, where a person’s principal place of residence is a [F166care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital and he is temporarily absent from that home or hospital, he shall be regarded as continuing to reside in that home or hospital]

(a)where he is absent because he is a patient, for the first [F16752] weeks of any such period of absence and for this purpose—

(i)“patient” has the meaning it has in Schedule 7 by virtue of regulation 21(3); and

(ii)periods of absence separated by not more than 28 days shall be treated as a single period of absence equal in duration to all those periods; and

(b)for the first three weeks of any other period of absence.]

[F168(1B) References in these Regulations to a claimant participating as a service user are to—

(a)a person who is being consulted by or on behalf of—

(i)a body which has a statutory duty to provide services in the field of health, social care or social housing; or

(ii)a body which conducts research or undertakes monitoring for the purpose of planning or improving such services,

in their capacity as a user, potential user, carer of a user or person otherwise affected by the provision of those services; or

[F169(ab)a person who is being consulted by or on behalf of—

(i)the Secretary of State in relation to any of the Secretary of State’s functions in the field of social security or child support or under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973; or

(ii)a body which conducts research or undertakes monitoring for the purpose of planning or improving such functions,

in their capacity as a person affected or potentially affected by the exercise of those functions or the carer of such a person;]

(b)the carer of a person consulted under [F170sub-paragraphs (a) or (ab)].]

(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—

(a)to a numbered Part is to the Part of these Regulations bearing that number;

(b)to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in or Schedule to these Regulations bearing that number;

(c)in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation or Schedule bearing that number;

(d)in a paragraph to a lettered or numbered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter or number.

(3) Unless the context requires otherwise, any reference to the claimant's family or, as the case may be, to a member of his family, shall be construed for the purposes of these Regulations as if it included in relation to a polygamous marriage a reference to any partner and to any child or young person who is treated as the responsibility of the claimant or his partner, where that child or young person is a member of the claimant's household.

F171( 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F11Subsections (3) and (4) of section 61 were added by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), section 39 and Schedule 3, paragraph 6.

F13S.I. 1983/686; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/1164 and 1984/1675.

F15Words in reg. 2 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 2(a)

F18Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1985), arts. 1(2)(b), 8(2)

F19Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1-3 of the amending S.I.) by The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/422), arts. 1(2), 9(2)

F30Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/563), regs. 1(2), 5(1)(2)(e)

F34Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/315), regs. 1(1)(c), 3(b)

F43Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 2(a)-(c)

F45Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2402), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(c)

F52Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(2)

F601985c.69.

F61Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/65), regs. 1(1)(2), 4(1)

F71Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(2)

F79S.I. 1983/686, amended by S.I. 1983/1164, 1540 and 1986/628.

F89Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 22(a)

F111Words in reg. 2 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 2(b)

F121Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Sports Awards) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2165), regs. 1(1), 2(1)(2)(e)

F1241976 c. 71, as amended by section 6(1) of, and Part I of Schedules 2 to, the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30).

F125S.I. 1976/965; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1980/1054, 1982/470 and 1987/357.

F156Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/315), regs. 1(1)(c), 3(c)

F161Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 22(b)

F167Word in reg. 2(1A)(a) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1195), regs. 1(c), 3(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C11Reg. 2(1) applied (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1 of the amending S.I., in force in so far as not already in force and with effect in accordance with reg. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits (Definition and Calculation of Income) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2006), regs. 1, 10(5)

Commencement Information

I2Reg. 2 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F172Disapplication of section 1(1A) of the Administration ActE+W+S

2A.  Section 1(1A) of the Administration Act (requirement to state national insurance number) shall not apply—

(a)[F173to a child or young person in respect of whom income support is claimed;]

(b)to a partner in respect of whom a claim for income support is made or treated as made before [F1745th October 1998].]

[F175(c)to a person who—

(i)is a person in respect of whom a claim for income support is made;

(ii)is subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9)(a) of the Immigration and Asylum Act;

(iii)is not entitled to any income support for the purposes of section 124 of the Contributions and Benefits Act; and

(iv)has not previously been allocated a national insurance number.]

Definition of non-dependantE+W+S

3.—(1) In these Regulations, “non-dependant” means any person, except someone [F176to whom paragraph (2), (2A) or (2B) applies], who normally resides with a claimant [F177or with whom a claimant normally resides.]

[F178(2) This paragraph applies to—

(a)any member of the claimant’s family;

(b)a child or young person who is living with the claimant but who is not a member of his household by virtue of regulation 16 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household);

(c)a person who lives with the claimant in order to care for him or for the claimant’s partner and who is engaged for that purpose by a charitable or [F179voluntary organisation] which makes a charge to the claimant or the claimant’s partner for the care provided by that person;

(d)the partner of a person to whom sub-paragraph (c) applies.

(2A) This paragraph applies to a person, other than a close relative of the claimant or the claimant’s partner,—

(a)who is liable to make payments on a commercial basis to the claimant or the claimant’s partner in respect of his occupation of the claimant’s dwelling;

(b)to whom the claimant or the claimant’s partner is liable to make payments on a commercial basis in respect of his occupation of that person’s dwelling;

(c)who is a member of the household of a person to whom sub-paragraph (a) or (b) applies.

(2B) Subject to paragraph (2C), this paragraph applies to—

(a)a person who jointly occupies the claimant’s dwelling and who is either—

(i)a co-owner of that dwelling with the claimant or the claimant’s partner (whether or not there are other co-owners); or

(ii)jointly liable with the claimant or the claimant’s partner to make payments to a landlord in respect of his occupation of that dwelling;

(b)a partner of a person to whom sub-paragraph (a) applies.

(2C) Where a person is a close relative of the claimant or the claimant’s partner, paragraph (2B) shall apply to him only if the claimant’s, or the claimant’s partner’s, co-ownership, or joint liability to make payments to a landlord in respect of his occupation, of the dwelling arose either before 11th April 1988, or, if later, on or before the date upon which the claimant or the claimant’s partner first occupied the dwelling in question.]

F180(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) For the purposes of this regulation a person resides with another only if they share any accommodation except a bathroom, a lavatory or a communal area [F181but not if each person is separately liable to make payments in respect of his occupation of the dwelling to the landlord].

(5) In this regulation “communal area” means any area (other than rooms) of common access (including halls and passageways) and rooms of common use in sheltered accommodation.

Textual Amendments

F180Reg. 3(3) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(c) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(b)

F181Words in reg. 3(4) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), regs. 1(1), 2(c)

Commencement Information

I3Reg. 3 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F182Permitted periodE+W+S

3A.(1) For the purposes of regulation 17(6), F183... paragraph 7(6) of Schedule 3A, paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 3B and paragraphs 4 and 6 of Schedule 8 (applicable amounts, mortgage interest, protected sums and earnings to be disregarded), where a claimant has ceased to be entitled to income support–

(a)because he or his partner becomes engaged in remunerative work the permitted period, F184... shall be twelve weeks; or

(b)for any other reason, the permitted period shall be eight weeks.

F185(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F186(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

PART IIE+W+SCONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT

[F187Prescribed categories of personE+W+S

4ZA.(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person to whom any paragraph of Schedule 1B applies falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 124(1)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (entitlement to income support).

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a [F188full-time student] during the period of study.

(3) A [F188full-time student] during the period of study falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 124(1)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act only if—

F189(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)paragraph 1, 2, F190... 11, F190... [F19115A,] or 18 of Schedule 1B applies to him; F189...

[F192(c)any other paragraph of Schedule 1B applies to him and—

(i)in the case of a person with a partner, the partner is also a full-time student and either he or his partner is treated as responsible for a child or young person, or

(ii)in any other case, he is treated as responsible for a child or young person,

but this provision applies only for the period of the summer vacation appropriate to his course; F193...]

F193(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F194(3A) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a person to whom section 6 of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (exclusion from benefits) applies.]

[F195(4) A person who falls within a prescribed category in Schedule 1B for the purposes of this regulation for any day in a benefit week, shall fall within that category for the whole of that week.]]

Textual Amendments

Temporary absence from Great BritainE+W+S

4.—(1) Where a claimant is entitled to income support for a period immediately preceding a period of temporary absence from Great Britain, his entitlement to income support [F196shall continue only—

(a)in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2), during the first 4 weeks of that period of temporary absence; and

(b)in the circumstances specified in paragraph (3), during the first 8 weeks of that period.]

(2) The circumstances in which a claimant's entitlement to income support is to continue during the first four weeks of a temporary absence from Great Britain are that—

(a)the period of absence is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks; and

(b)while absent from Great Britain, the claimant continues to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to income support; and

(c)any one of the following conditions applies—

[F197(i)the claimant falls within one or more of the prescribed categories of person listed in Schedule 1B other than paragraphs 7, 15, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26 or 27 of that Schedule; or]

[F197(ii)the claimant falls within paragraph 7 of Schedule 1B ([F198persons treated as capable of work and persons entitled to statutory sick pay]) and his absence from Great Britain is for the sole purpose of receiving treatment from an appropriately qualified person for the incapacity by reason of which he satisfies the conditions of that paragraph; or]

(iii)he is in Northern Ireland; or

(iv)he is a member of a couple and he and his partner are both absent from Great Britain, and a premium referred to in paragraph 9, [F1999A,] 10, 11 or 13 of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts) is applicable in respect of his partner [F200 or

[F201(v)on the day on which the absence began he had satisfied the provisions of [F202paragraph 7 of Schedule 1B] ([F203persons treated as capable of work and persons entitled to statutory sick pay]) for a continuous period of not less than—

(aa)196 days in the case of a claimant who is terminally ill within the meaning of section 30B(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, or who is entitled to the highest rate of the care component of disability living allowance [F204, the care component of child disability payment at the highest rate in accordance with the DACYP Regulations (see regulation 11(5) of those Regulations)] [F205, armed forces independence payment] [F206[F207,] the enhanced rate of the daily living component of personal independence payment] [F208or the enhanced rate of the daily living component of adult disability payment]; or

(bb)364 days in any other case,

and for this purpose any two or more separate periods separated by a break of not more than 56 days shall be treated as one continuous period.]]

[F209(3) The circumstances in which a claimant’s entitlement to income support is to continue during the first 8 weeks of a temporary absence from Great Britain are that—

(a)the period of absence is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks; and

(b)the claimant continues to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to income support; and

(c)the claimant is, or the claimant and any other member of his family are, accompanying a member of the claimant’s family who is a child or young person solely in connection with arrangements made for the treatment of that child or young person for a disease or bodily or mental disablement; and

(d)those arrangements relate to treatment—

(i)outside Great Britain;

(ii)during the period whilst the claimant is, or the claimant and any member of his family are, temporarily absent from Great Britain; and

(iii)by, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment.]

[F210(3A) A claimant’s entitlement to income support shall continue during a period of temporary absence from Great Britain if—

(a)he satisfied the conditions of entitlement to income support immediately before the beginning of that period of temporary absence; and

[F211(b)that period of temporary absence is for the purpose of the claimant receiving treatment at a hospital or other institution outside Great Britain where the treatment is being provided—

(i)under section 6(2) of the Health Service Act (performance of functions outside England) or section 6(2) of the Health Service (Wales) Act (performance of functions outside Wales);

(ii)pursuant to arrangements made under section 12(1) of the Health Service Act (Secretary of State’s arrangements with other bodies), section 10(1) of the Health Service (Wales) Act (Welsh Minister’s arrangements with other bodies), paragraph 18 of Schedule 4 to the Health Service Act (joint exercise of functions) or paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 to the Health Service (Wales) Act (joint exercise of functions); or

(iii)under any equivalent provision in Scotland or pursuant to arrangements made under such provision.]]

[F209(4) In paragraphs (2) and (3) “appropriately qualified” means qualified to provide medical treatment, physiotherapy or a form of treatment which is similar to, or related to, either of those forms of treatment.]

Textual Amendments

F196Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(a)

F209Reg. 4(3)(4) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I4Reg. 4 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Persons treated as engaged in remunerative workE+W+S

5.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, for the purposes of section 20(3)(c) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support), remunerative work is work in which a person is engaged, or, where his hours of work fluctuate, he is engaged on average, for [F212not less than 16 hours] a week being work for which payment is made or which is done in expectation of payment.

[F213(1A) In the case of any partner of the claimant paragraph (1) shall have effect as though for the words “16 hours" there were substituted the words “24 hours".]

(2) [F214Subject to paragraph (3B),] the number of hours for which a person is engaged in work shall be determined—

(a)where no recognisable cycle has been established in respect of a person's work, by reference to the number of hours or, where those hours are likely to fluctuate, the average of the hours, which he is expected to work in a week;

(b)where the number of hours for which he is engaged fluctuate, by reference to the average of hours worked over—

(i)if there is a recognisable cycle of work, the period of one complete cycle (including, where the cycle involves periods in which the person does no work, those periods but disregarding any other absences);

(ii)in any other case, the period of five weeks immediately before the date of claim or the date [F215on which a superseding decision is made under section 10 (decisions superseding earlier decisions) of the Social Security Act 1998], or such other length of time as may, in the particular case, enable the person's average hours of work to be determined more accurately.

(3) A person shall be treated as engaged in remunerative work during any period for which he is absent from work referred to in paragraph (1) if the absence is either without good cause or by reason of a recognised, customary or other holiday.

[F216(3A) A person shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work on any day on which the person is on maternity leave [F217, paternity leave [F218, adoption leave [F219, shared parental leave or parental bereavement leave]]] or is absent from work because he is ill.]

[F220(3B) Where for the purpose of paragraph (2)(b)(i), a person’s recognisable cycle of work at a school, other educational establishment or other place of employment is one year and includes periods of school holidays or similar vacations during which he does not work, those periods and any other periods not forming part of such holidays or vacations during which he is not required to work shall be disregarded in establishing the average hours for which he is engaged in work.]

(4) A person who makes a claim and to whom or whose partner section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies [F221or applied] shall, for the period of seven days following the date on which the stoppage of work due to a trade dispute at his or his partner's place of work commenced or, if there is no stoppage, the date on which he or his partner first withdrew his labour in furtherance of a trade dispute, be treated as engaged in remunerative work.

(5) [F222Subject to paragraph (5A), a person] who was, or was treated as being, engaged in remunerative work and in respect of that work earnings to which [F223regulation [F22435(1)(b) and (d)]] (earnings of employed earners) applies are [F225paid] shall be treated as being engaged in remunerative work for the period for which those earnings are taken into account in accordance with Part V.

[F226(5A) Paragraph (5) shall not apply to earnings disregarded under paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to these regulations.]

[F227(6) For the purposes of this regulation, in determining the number of hours in which a person is engaged or treated as engaged in remunerative work, no account shall be taken of any hours in which the person is engaged in an employment or a scheme to which [F228regulation 6(1)] (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies.]

[F229(7) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), in determining the number of hours for which a person is engaged in work, that number shall include any time allowed to that person by his employer for a meal or for refreshment, but only where that person is, or expects to be, paid earnings in respect of that time.]

F230(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F230(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F230(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F212Sch. 9 para. 19 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 9(3)

F216Reg. 5(3A) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 3(2)

F229Reg. 5(7) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 4

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I5Reg. 5 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Persons not treated as engaged in remunerative workE+W+S

6.[F231(1)] A person shall not be treated as engaged in [F232remunerative work in so far as—]

F233(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)he is engaged in child minding in his home;

(c)he is engaged by a charity or [F234voluntary organisationF235...,] or is a volunteer where the only payment received by him or due to be paid to him, is a payment which is to be disregarded under regulation 40(2) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) [F236and in this paragraph “volunteer” means a person who is engaged in voluntary work, otherwise than for a relative, where the only payment received, or due to be paid to the person by virtue of being so engaged, is in respect of any expenses reasonably incurred by the person in connection with that work];

(d)he is engaged on a scheme for which a training allowance is being paid; F237...

[F238(dd)he is receiving assistance under the self-employment route;]

F239(e). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F239(f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F239(g). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F240(h)he is engaged in any one of the employments mentioned in heads (a) to (d) of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 7 of Schedule 8 (which relates to persons serving as firemen, in coastal rescue activities etc); F241...]

[F240(j)he is performing his duties as a councillor, and for this purpose “councillor” has the same meaning as in [F242section 171F(2) of the Contributions and Benefits Act][F243; or]]

[F244(k)he is engaged in caring for a person who is accommodated with him by virtue of arrangements made under any of the provisions referred to in paragraph 26 [F245or in accordance with paragraph 27] of Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) and is in receipt of any payment specified in [F246those paragraphs].]

[F247(ka)he is engaged in caring for a person who is provided with continuing care by a local authority by virtue of arrangements made under section 26A of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (duty to provide continuing care) and is in receipt of a payment made under that section of that Act;]

[F248(m)he is engaged in an activity in respect of which—

(i)a sports award has been made, or is to be made, to him; and

(ii)no other payment is made or is expected to be made to him.]

F249(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F250(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F251(4) The following persons shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work–

F252(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)subject to regulation 5(4) and (5) (persons treated as engaged in remunerative work), a person to whom section 126 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom section 124(1) of that Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 127(b) of that Act (effect of return to work);

(c)a person to whom paragraph 4 of Schedule 1B applies;]

F253(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F254(5) A person shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period specified in paragraph (6) in so far as—

(a)he or his partner is engaged in work which—

(i)is remunerative work; and

(ii)he, or his partner, is expected to be engaged in for a period of no less than five weeks;

(b)he or his partner had, for a continuous period of 26 weeks ending on the day before the day on which he commenced the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a), been entitled to and in receipt of income support [F255, an income-based jobseeker's allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance];

(c)he or his partner had, as at the day before the day on which he commenced the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a), an applicable amount which included—

(i)an amount determined in accordance with Schedule 3 (housing costs) as applicable to him in respect of [F256housing costs which qualify [F257under paragraph 17]] of that Schedule; F258...

(ii)an amount determined in accordance with Schedule 2 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (housing costs) as applicable to him in respect of [F259housing costs which qualify [F260under paragraph 16]] of that Schedule; [F261or

(iii)an amount determined in accordance with Schedule 6 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (housing costs) as applicable to him in respect of housing costs which qualify [F262under paragraph 18] of that Schedule; and]

(d)he or his partner remain liable to make payments [F263in respect of such housing costs].

(6) A person referred to in paragraph (5) shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work for—

(a)the period of four weeks commencing with the day on which he was first engaged in the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraphF264...

F265(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(7) In calculating the period of benefit entitlement referred to in paragraphF266... (5)(b), no account shall be taken of entitlement arising by virtue of paragraphF266... (6).

(8) In paragraph (5), a reference to the claimant or his partner being entitled to and in receipt of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or to an amount being applicable to either of them under the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 shall include a reference to the claimant and his partner being entitled to, and in receipt of, a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance and to an amount being applicable to that couple under those Regulations.]

Textual Amendments

F234Words in reg. 6(c) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 23(a)

F241Word in reg. 6(h) revoked (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 13(a)

F243Words in reg. 6(j) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 13(b)

F244Reg. 6(k) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 13(c)

F245Words in reg. 6(k) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 23(b)

F246Words in reg. 6(k) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 23(b)

F257Words in reg. 6(5)(c)(i) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(a)(i)

F260Words in reg. 6(5)(c)(ii) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(a)(ii)

F262Words in reg. 6(5)(c)(iii) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(a)(iii)

Commencement Information

I6Reg. 6 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Meaning of employmentE+W+S

F2677.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I7Reg. 7 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Persons not required to be available for employmentE+W+S

F2688.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I8Reg. 8 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Persons treated as available for employmentE+W+S

F2699.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I9Reg. 9 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Circumstances in which claimants are not to be treated as available for employmentE+W+S

F27010.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I10Reg. 10 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Actively seeking employmentE+W+S

F27110A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Registration for employmentE+W+S

F27211.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I11Reg. 11 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Relevant EducationE+W+S

[F27312.  For the purposes of these Regulations, a person is to be treated as receiving relevant education if he is a qualifying young person within the meaning of section 142 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (child and qualifying young person).]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I12Reg. 12 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Circumstances in which persons in relevant education are to be entitled to income supportE+W+S

13.—(1) Notwithstanding that a person is to be treated as receiving relevant education under regulation 12 (relevant education) he shall, if paragraph (2) applies to him and he satisfies the other conditions of entitlement to income support, be entitled to income support.

(2) This paragraph applies to [F274a person [F275who [F276(subject to paragraph (2A))] is a qualifying young person within the meaning of section 142 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (child and qualifying young person)] (hereinafter referred to as an eligible person)] who—

(a)is the parent of a child for whom he is treated as responsible under regulation 15 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another) and who is treated as a member of his household under regulation 16 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household); or

F277(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F277(bb). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F278(bc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)has no parent nor any person acting in the place of his parents; or

[F279(d)of necessity has to live away from his [F280parents and any] person acting in the place of his parents because–

(i)he is estranged from his [F280parents and that person]; or

(ii)he is in physical or moral danger; or

(iii)there is a serious risk to his physical or mental health;]

[F281(dd)has ceased to live in accommodation provided for him by a local authority under Part III of the Children Act 1989 (local authority support for children and families) [F282or Part II of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (promotion of children’s welfare by local authorities and by children’s hearings etc)] [F283or Part 4 (meeting needs) or Part 6 (looked after and accommodated children) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014] [F284, or by virtue of any order or warrant made under the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011,] and is of necessity living away from his parents and any person acting in place of his parents;]

(e)is living away from his parents and any person acting in the place of his parents in a case where his parents are or, as the case may be, that person is unable financially to support him and—

(i)chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled; or

(ii)detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court; or

(iii)prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain; or

F285(f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F285(g). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F286(h)is a person to whom paragraph 18 of Schedule 1B (refugees) applies.]

[F287(2A) For the purposes of paragraph (2)—

(a)the eligible person shall be treated as satisfying the condition prescribed in regulation 8 of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006 (child benefit not payable in respect of qualifying young person: other financial support);

(b)where sub-paragraphs (c) to (e) apply, the eligible person shall be treated as satisfying the condition prescribed in regulation 5(2)(e) and (f) of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2006 (extension period: 16 and 17 year olds).]

(3) In this regulation—

[F288(a)any reference to a person acting in the place of an eligible person’s parents includes—

(i)for the purposes of paragraph (2)(c), (d) and (dd), a reference to a local authority or voluntary organisation where the eligible person is being looked after by them under a relevant enactment or where the eligible person is placed by the local authority or voluntary organisation with another person, that other person, whether or not a payment is made to him;

(ii)for the purposes of paragraph (2)(e), the person with whom the person is so placed;]

(b)chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled” means, in relation to a person to whom that expression refers, a person—

(i)in respect of whom the condition specified in paragraph 12(1) of Schedule 2 (additional condition for the higher pensioner and disability premiums) is satisfied; or

F289(ii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(iii)who is substantially and permanently disabled[F290; or

(iv)who is entitled to an employment and support allowance which includes a work-related activity component or support component [F291or who would be entitled to an employment and support allowance including a work-related activity component but for the application of section 1A of the Welfare Reform Act (duration of contributory allowance)].]

Textual Amendments

F288Reg. 13(3)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 2 (with Sch. para. 11)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I13Reg. 13 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Persons under 18 yearsE+W+S

F29213A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

PART IIIE+W+SMEMBERSHIP OF THE FAMILY

Persons of a prescribed descriptionE+W+S

14.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 20(11) of the Act as it applies to income support (definition of the family) and section 23(1) [F293and (3)] of the Act (trade disputes) is a person [F294who falls within the definition of qualifying young person in section 142 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (child and qualifying young person)], and in these Regulations such a person is referred to as a “young person”.

[F295(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person who is—

F296(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)entitled to income support or would, but for section 134(2) (provision against dual entitlement of members of family) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, be so entitled; F297...

(c)a person to whom section 6 of the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 (exclusion from benefits) applies] [F298F299...

(d)entitled to an employment and support allowance or would, but for paragraph 6(1)(d) of Schedule 1 to the Welfare Reform Act (conditions of entitlement to income-related employment and support allowance), be so entitled][F300; or

(e)entitled to universal credit]

[F301(3) A person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 137(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act as it applies to income support (definition of family) includes a child or young person in respect of whom section 145A of that Act applies for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit but only for the period prescribed under section 145A(1) of that Act.]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I14Reg. 14 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for anotherE+W+S

15.[F302(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a person is to be treated as responsible for a child or young person for whom he is receiving child benefit [F303and this includes a child or young person to whom paragraph (3) of regulation 14 applies.]

(1A) In a case where a child (“the first child”) is in receipt of child benefit in respect of another child (“the second child”), the person treated as responsible for the first child in accordance with the provisions of this regulation shall also be treated as responsible for the second child.

(2) In the case of a child or young person in respect of whom no person is receiving child benefit, the person who shall be treated as responsible for that child or young person shall be—

(a)except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, the person with whom the child or young person usually lives; or

(b)where only one claim for child benefit has been made in respect of the child or young person, the person who made that claim.]

(3) Where regulation 16(6) (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household) applies in respect of a child or young person, that child or young person shall be treated as the responsibility of the claimant for that part of the week for which he is under that regulation treated as being a member of the claimant's household.

(4) Except where paragraph (3) applies, for the purposes of these Regulations a child or young person shall be treated as the responsibility of only one person in any benefit week and any person other than the one treated as responsible for the child or young person under this regulation shall be treated as not so responsible.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I15Reg. 15 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the householdE+W+S

16.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (5), the claimant and any partner and, where the claimant or his partner is treated as responsible under regulation 15 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another) for a child or young person, that child or young person and any child of that child or young person shall be treated as members of the same household [F304notwithstanding that any of them] [F305is temporarily living away from the other members of his family].

[F306(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person who is living away from the other members of his family where—

(a)that person does not intend to resume living with the other members of his family; or

(b)his absence from the other members of his family is likely to exceed 52 weeks, unless there are exceptional circumstances (for example the person is in hospital or otherwise has no control over the length of his absence), and the absence is unlikely to be substantially more than 52 weeks.]

(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in respect of any member of a couple or of a polygamous marriage where—

(a)one, both or all of them are patients detained in a hospital provided under section 4 of the National Health Service Act 1977 F307 ([F308high security psychiatric services]) or [F309section 102 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (state hospitals)]; or

[F310(b)one, both or all of them are—

(i)detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court; or

(ii)on temporary release in accordance with the provisions of [F311the Prison Act 1952 or] the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989;]

F312(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d)the claimant is abroad and does not satisfy the conditions of regulation 4 (temporary absence from Britain); or

(e)one of them is permanently [F313residing in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital].

(4) A child or young person shall not be treated as a member of the claimant's household where he is—

[F314(a)placed with the claimant or his partner by a local authority under [F315section 22C(2)] of the Children Act 1989 or by a voluntary organisation under section 59(1)(a) of that Act; or

[F316(aa)placed with the claimant or his partner by a local authority under section 81(2) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014; or]

(b)placed with the claimant or his partner prior to adoption; or]

(c)placed for adoption with the claimant or his partner pursuant to a decision under the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983 F317 or [F318the Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations 2009].

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), paragraph (1) shall not apply to a child or young person who is not living with the claimant [F319and who]

(a)[F320in a case which does not fall within sub-paragraph (aa),] has been continuously absent from Great Britain for a period of more than four weeks commencing—

(i)[F321subject to paragraph (5A),] where he went abroad before the date of claim for income support, with that date;

(ii)in any other case, [F322on the day which immediately follows the day] on which he went abroad; or

[F323(aa)where regulation 4(3) or paragraph 11A or 12A of Schedule 7 (temporary absence abroad for the treatment of a child or young person) applies, has been continuously absent from Great Britain for a period of more than 8 weeks, that period of 8 weeks commencing—

(i)[F324subject to paragraph (5A),] where he went abroad before the date of the claim for income support, on the date of that claim;

(ii)in any other case, on the day which immediately follows the day on which he went abroad; or]

(b)has been an in-patient or in [F325accommodation F326...] for a continuous period of more than 12 weeks commencing—

(i)[F327subject to paragraph (5A),] where he became an in-patient or, as the case may be, entered that accommodation before the date of the claim for income support, with that date; or

(ii)in any other case, with the date on which he became an in-patient or entered that accommodation,

and, in either case, has not been in regular contact with either the claimant or any member of the claimant's household; or

[F328(c)is being looked after by a local authority under a relevant enactment; or

(d)has been placed with a person other than the claimant prior to adoption; or]

(e)has been placed for adoption pursuant to a decision under the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983 or [F329the Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations 2009]; or

(f)is detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court.

[F330(5A) Sub-paragraphs (a)(i), (aa)(i) and (b)(i) of paragraph (5) shall not apply in a case where immediately before the date of claim for income support the claimant was entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance.]

(6) A child or young person to whom any of the circumstances mentioned in sub-paragraphs (c) or (f) of paragraph (5) applies shall be treated as being a member of the claimant's household only for that part of any benefit week where that child or young person lives with the claimant.

(7) Where a child or young person for the purposes of attending the educational establishment at which he is receiving relevant education is living with the claimant or his partner and neither one is treated as responsible for that child or young person that child or young person shall be treated as being a member of the household of the person treated as responsible for him and shall not be treated as a member of the claimant's household.

(8) In this regulation—

[F331(za)accommodation” means accommodation provided by a local authority in a home owned or managed by that local authority—

(i)under sections 21 to 24 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (provision of accommodation),

(ii)in Scotland, under section 13B or 59 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (provision of residential or other establishment), F332...

(iii)under section 25 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (care and support services etc.), F333...

[F334(iv)under section 18 or 19 of the Care Act 2014 (duty and power to meet needs for care and support), [F335 or

(v)under section 35 or 36 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (duty and power to meet care and support needs of an adult),]

where the accommodation is provided for a person whose stay in that accommodation has become other than temporary;]

[F336(a)“relevant enactment” means the Army Act 1955, the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, [F337the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007], the Family Law Act 1986 [F338, the Children Act 1989 and the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014].]

(b)voluntary organisation” has the meaning assigned to it in the [F339Children Act 1989] or, in Scotland, the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.]

Textual Amendments

F305Words in reg. 16(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 6(2)

F3071977 c. 49; section 4 was amended by section 148, Schedule 4, paragraph 47 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20).

F314Reg. 16(4)(a)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(a) (with Sch. para. 11)

F320Words in reg. 16(5)(a) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 7(a)

F322Words in reg. 16(5)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 7(a)

F323Reg. 16(5)(aa) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 7(b)

F328Reg. 16(5)(c)(d) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(b) (with Sch. para. 11)

F336Reg. 16(8)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(c)(i) (with Sch. para. 11)

F339Words in reg. 16(8)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 3(c)(ii) (with Sch. para. 11)

Commencement Information

I16Reg. 16 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

PART IVE+W+SAPPLICABLE AMOUNTS

Applicable amountsE+W+S

17.—(1) F340F340Subject to regulations [F34118 to 22A] ... (applicable amounts in other cases and reductions in applicable amounts ...), a claimant's weekly applicable amount shall be the aggregate of such of the following amounts as may apply in his case:

(a)an amount in respect of himself or, if he is a member of a couple, an amount in respect of both of them, determined in accordance with paragraph 1 (1), (2) or (3), as the case may be, of Schedule 2;

(b)[F342an amount determined in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 in respect of any child or young person who is a member of his family, except a child or young person whose capital, if calculated in accordance with Part V in like manner as for the claimant, [F343except as provided in regulation 44(1) (modifications in respect of children and young persons)], would exceed £3,000;]

F344(bb). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)[F342if he is a member of a family of which at least one member is a child or young person, an amount determined in accordance with Part II of Schedule 2 (family premium);]

(d)the amount of any premiums which may be applicable to him, determined in accordance with Parts III and IV of Schedule 2 (premiums);

(e)any amounts determined in accordance with Schedule 3 (housing costs) which may be applicable to him in respect of [F345housing costs as prescribed] in that Schedule.

[F346(f)any amounts determined in accordance with [F347paragraphs (2) to (7)].]

F348(g). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F349(2) Where —

(a)a claimant has throughout the period beginning on 11th April 1988 and ending immediately before the coming into force of paragraphs 25 to 28 of Schedule 10 (capital to be disregarded) failed to satisfy the capital condition in section 22(6) of the Act (no entitlement to benefit if capital exceeds prescribed amount); and

(b)as a consequence he is not entitled to any transitional addition, special transitional addition or personal expenses addition under Part II of the Transitional Regulations; and

(c)had those paragraphs been in force on 11th April 1988 he would have satisfied that condition and been entitled to any such addition,

the amount applicable under this paragraph shall, subject to paragraph (3), be equal to the amount of any transitional addition, special transitional addition and personal expenses addition to which he would be entitled under Part II of the Transitional Regulations had he been entitled to any such addition in the week commencing 11th April 1988.]

[F349(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), in determining a claimant’s total benefit income in his second benefit week for the purpose of calculating the amount of any transitional addition to which he would have been entitled, no account shall be taken of any payment referred to in paragraph (1)(j) of regulation 9 of the Transitional Regulations (total benefit income) which is made in respect of that week to compensate for the loss of entitlement to income support.]

[F349(4) Subject to paragraph (6), where —

(a)the claimant or any member of his family was temporarily absent from his home in the claimant’s first or second benefit week (or both), because he was —

(i)a patient; or

(ii)outside Great Britain for the purpose of receiving treatment for any disease or bodily or mental disablement or for the purpose of accompanying a child or young person who is outside Great Britain for the purpose of receiving such treatment; or

[F350(iii)in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital; or]

(iv)in the care of a local authority under a relevant enactment; or

(v)staying with a person who was contributing to his maintenance; and

(b)as a result —

(i)in the claimant’s first benefit week his requirements for the purpose of calculating his entitlement to supplementary benefit were increased or reduced or he was not entitled to that benefit; or

(ii)in the claimant’s second benefit week his applicable amount was increased or reduced or he was not entitled to income support; and

(c)the period during which his requirements were, or his applicable amount was, increased or reduced, or he was not entitled to benefit, or any one or more of those circumstances existed, did not exceed 8 weeks,

the amount applicable under this paragraph shall be equal to the amount determined under paragraph (5).]

[F349(5) The amount for the purposes of paragraph (4) shall be an amount equal to the difference between —

(a)the amount that his total benefit income in his first benefit week would have been had he been entitled in respect of that week to supplementary benefit calculated on the basis that he or any member of his family had not been absent from the home; and, if less,

(b)the amount of his total benefit income in the first complete week after the period of temporary absence ends; but for the purpose of calculating his total benefit income in that week —

(i)no account shall be taken of any payment referred to in paragraph (1)(j) of regulation 9 of the Transitional Regulations which is made in respect of that week to compensate for the loss (in whole or in part) of entitlement to income support; and

(ii)if the period of temporary absence ends after the coming into force of paragraph (4), the amount of income support to be taken into account shall, notwithstanding regulation 9(6) of the Transitional Regulations, be calculated as if that paragraph were not in force.]

[F349(6) The amount under paragraph (4) shall cease to be applicable to a claimant if he ceases to be entitled to income support for a period exceeding [F351the permitted period determined in accordance with regulation 3A (permitted period)].]

[F352(6A) For the purposes of paragraph (6), where a claimant has ceased to be entitled to income support because he or his partner is participating in arrangements for training made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 [F353or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990] or attending a course at an employment rehabilitation centre established under that section [F354of the 1973 Act], he shall be treated as if he had been entitled to income support for the period during which he or his partner is participating in such arrangements or attending such a course.]

[F349(7) In this Regulation —

“first benefit week” and “second benefit week” have the meanings given to those expressions in regulations 2(1) of the Transitional Regulations and shall also include the week which would have been the claimant’s “first benefit week” or, as the case may be, “second benefit week” had he been entitled to supplementary benefit or, as the case may be, income support in that week;

“total benefit income” has, subject to paragraphs (3) and (5)(b), the same meaning as in regulation 9 of the Transitional Regulations;

Transitional Regulations” means the Income Support (Transitional) Regulations 1987.]

Textual Amendments

F341Words in reg. 17(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 9

F342Reg. 17(1)(b)(c) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 2(a)

F343Words in reg. 17(1)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 7

F345Words in reg. 17(1)(e) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C20Reg. 17(1)(b): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/316), arts. 1(3)(i), 21(2)(a)

C21Reg. 17(1)(b): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(2)(a)

Commencement Information

I17Reg. 17 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Polygamous marriagesE+W+S

18.[F355(1)] [F356Subject to paragraph (2) and] [F357regulations 21] [F358to 22A] F359... (applicable amounts in other cases and reductions in applicable amounts F359...), where a claimant is a member of a polygamous marriage his weekly applicable amount shall be the aggregate of such of the following amounts as may apply in his case:

(a)the highest amount applicable to him and one of his partners determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 as if he and that partner were a couple;

(b)an amount equal to the difference between the amounts specified in [F360sub-paragraphs (3)(d)] [F361and (1)(e)] of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 in respect of each of his other partners;

(c)[F362an amount determined in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts) in respect of any child or young person for whom he or a partner of his is responsible and who is a member of the same household except a child or young person whose capital, if calculated in accordance with Part V in like manner as for the claimant, [F363except as provided in regulation 44(1) (modifications in respect of children and young persons)], would exceed £3,000;]

F364(cc). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d)[F365if he or another partner of the polygamous marriage is responsible for a child or young person who is a member of the same household, the amount specified in Part II of Schedule 2 (family premiums);]

(e)the amount of any premiums which may be applicable to him determined in accordance with Parts III and IV of Schedule 2 (premiums);

(f)any amounts determined in accordance with Schedule 3 (housing costs) which may be applicable to him in respect of [F366housing costs as prescribed] in that Schedule.

[F367(g)any amount determined in accordance with regulation 17(1)(f) (applicable amounts);]

F368(h). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F369(2) In the case of a partner who is aged less than 18, the amount which applies in respect of that partner shall be nil unless—

(a)that partner is treated as responsible for a child, or

[F370(b)that partner is a person who—

(i)had he not been a member of a polygamous marriage would have qualified for income support under regulation 4ZA; or

(ii)satisfies the requirements of section 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (prescribed circumstances for persons aged 16 but less than 18); or

(iii)is the subject of a direction under section 16 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (persons under 18: severe hardship).]]

Textual Amendments

F362Reg. 18(1)(c) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 3(a)

F363Words in reg. 18(1)(c) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 8

F365Reg. 18(1)(d) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 3(a)

F366Words in reg. 18(1)(f) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(c)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C25Reg. 18(1)(c): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(2)(a)

C26Reg. 18(1)(c): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/316), arts. 1(3)(i), 21(2)(a)

Commencement Information

I18Reg. 18 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Applicable amounts for persons in residential care and nursing homesE+W+S

F37119.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Applicable amounts for persons in board and lodging accommodation and hostelsE+W+S

F37220.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F372Reg. 20 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(c) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 4

Commencement Information

I19Reg. 20 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Special casesE+W+S

21.—(1) Subject to [F373paragraph (1B),] [F374[F375regulation 21ZB] (treatment of refugees) and] [F376regulation 22A] (reductions in applicable amounts) in the case of a person to whom any paragraph in column (1) of Schedule 7 applies (applicable amounts in special cases), the amount included in the claimant's weekly amount in respect of him shall be the amount prescribed in the corresponding paragraph in column (2) of that Schedule; but no amount shall [F377be included in respect of a child or young person if the capital of that child or young person calculated in accordance with Part V in like manner as for the claimant, [F378except as provided in regulation 44(1) (modifications in respect of children and young persons)], would exceed £3,000].

F379(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F380(1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F381(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) [F382In Schedule 7]

[F383“partner of a person subject to immigration control" means a person–

(i)

who is not subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act; or

(ii)

to whom section 115 of that Act does not apply by virtue of regulation 2 of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000; and

(iii)

who is a member of a couple and [F384the member's] partner is subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of that Act and section 115 of that Act applies to [F385the partner] for the purposes of exclusion from entitlement to income support;]

F386...

patient” means a person (other than a prisoner) who is regarded as receiving free in-patient treatment within the meaning of [F387regulation 2(4) and (5) of the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005].

[F388“person from abroad” has the meaning given in regulation 21AA;]

[F389“prisoner” means a person who—

(a)

is detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court; or

(b)

is on temporary release in accordance with the provisions of the Prison Act 1952 or the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989,

other than a person [F390who is detained in hospital under the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983, or, in Scotland, under the provisions of the [F391Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003] or the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995,]]

F392...

[F393(3ZA) In Schedule 7 “person serving a sentence of imprisonment detained in hospital” means a person (“P”) who satisfies either of the following conditions.

(3ZB) The first condition is that—

(a)P is being detained under section 45A or 47 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (power of higher courts to direct hospital admission; removal to hospital of persons serving sentences of imprisonment etc.); and

(b)in any case where there is in relation to P a release date within the meaning of section 50(3) of that Act, P is being detained on or before the day which the Secretary of State certifies to be that release date.

(3ZC) The second condition is that P is being detained under—

(a)section 59A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (hospital direction); or

(b)section 136 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (transfer of prisoners for treatment of mental disorder).]

F394(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F394(3B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F394(3C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F394(3D) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F394(3E) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F395(3F) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F395(3G) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F396(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F396(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F396(4B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5) A claimant to whom paragraph 19 of Schedule 7 (disability premium) applies shall be entitled to income support for the period in respect of which that paragraph applies to him notwithstanding that his partner was also entitled to income support for that same period.

Textual Amendments

F376Words in reg. 21(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 12

F377Words in reg. 21(1) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 4(a)

F378Words in reg. 21(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 3

F381Reg. 21(2) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), reg. 4(2)(a)

F387Words in reg. 21(3) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), reg. 4(2)(b)

F390Words in reg. 21(3) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/563), regs. 1(2), 8(1)(2)(c)(i)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C28Reg. 21(1): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/316), arts. 1(3)(i), 21(2)(a)

C29Reg. 21(1): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(2)(a)

Commencement Information

I20Reg. 21 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F397Special cases: supplemental – persons from abroadE+W+S

21AA.(1) ”Person from abroad” means, subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a claimant who is not habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland.

(2) No claimant shall be treated as habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland unless he has a right to reside in (as the case may be) the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland other than a right to reside which falls within paragraph (3) [F398or (3A)].

(3) A right to reside falls within this paragraph if it is one which exists by virtue of, or in accordance with, one or more of the following—

(a)regulation 13 of the [F399Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016];

(b)regulation 14 of those Regulations, but only in a case where the right exists under that regulation because the claimant is—

(i)a jobseeker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 6(1) of those Regulations, or

(ii)a family member (within the meaning of regulation 7 of those Regulations) of such a jobseeker; [F400 or]

[F401(bb)regulation 16 of those Regulations, but only in a case where the right exists under that regulation because the claimant satisfies the criteria in paragraph (5) of that regulation;]

F402(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F402(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F402(e). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F403(3A) A right to reside falls within this paragraph if it exists by virtue of a claimant having been granted limited leave to enter, or remain in, the United Kingdom under the Immigration Act 1971 by virtue of—

(a)Appendix EU to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of that Act; F404...

(b)being a person with a Zambrano right to reside as defined in Annex 1 of Appendix EU to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of that Act][F405; or

(c)having arrived in the United Kingdom with an entry clearance that was granted under Appendix EU (Family Permit) to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of that Act.]

[F406(3B) Paragraph (3A)(a) does not apply to a person who—

(a)has a right to reside granted by virtue of being a family member of a relevant person of Northern Ireland; and

(b)would have a right to reside under the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 if the relevant person of Northern Ireland were an EEA national, provided that the right to reside does not fall within paragraph (3).]

(4) A claimant is not a person from abroad if he is—

[F407(zza)a person granted leave in accordance with the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971, where such leave is granted by virtue of—

(i)the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy; or

(ii)the previous scheme for locally-employed staff in Afghanistan (sometimes referred to as the ex-gratia scheme);

(zzb)a person in Great Britain not coming within sub-paragraph (zza) or [F408(h)] who left Afghanistan in connection with the collapse of the Afghan government that took place on 15th August 2021;]

[F409(zzc)a person in Great Britain who was residing in Ukraine immediately before 1st January 2022, left Ukraine in connection with the Russian invasion which took place on 24th February 2022 and—

(i)has been granted leave in accordance with immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971; F410...

(ii)has a right of abode in the United Kingdom within the meaning given in section 2 of that Act;] [F411or]

[F412(iii)does not require leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom in accordance with section 3ZA of that Act;]

[F413(zzd)a person who was residing in Sudan before 15th April 2023, left Sudan in connection with the violence which rapidly escalated on 15th April 2023 in Khartoum and across Sudan and—

(i)has been granted leave in accordance with immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971;

(ii)has a right of abode in the United Kingdom within the meaning given in section 2 of that Act; or

(iii)does not require leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom in accordance with section 3ZA of that Act;]

[F414(zze)a person who was residing in Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights or Lebanon immediately before 7th October 2023, who left Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights or Lebanon in connection with the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on 7th October 2023 or the violence which rapidly escalated in the region following the attack and—

(i)has been granted leave in accordance with immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971;

(ii)has a right of abode in the United Kingdom within the meaning given in section 2 of that Act; or

(iii)does not require leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom in accordance with section 3ZA of that Act;]

[F415(za)a qualified person for the purposes of regulation 6 of the [F416Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016] as a worker or a self-employed person;

(zb)a family member of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (za) F417...;

(zc)a person who has a right to reside permanently in the United Kingdom by virtue of regulation 15(1)(c), (d) or (e) of those Regulations;]

[F418(zd)a family member of a relevant person of Northern Ireland, with a right to reside which falls within paragraph (3A)(a), provided that the relevant person of Northern Ireland falls within sub-paragraph (za), or would do so but for the fact that they are not an EEA national;]

[F419(ze)a frontier worker within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Citizens' Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020;

(zf)a family member, of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (ze), who has been granted limited leave to enter, or remain in, the United Kingdom by virtue of Appendix EU to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971;]

(g)a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951, as extended by Article 1(2) of the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees done at New York on 31st January 1967;

[F420(h)a person who has been granted leave or who is deemed to have been granted leave outside the rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 ]F421...

[F422(hh)a person who has humanitarian protection granted under those rules;] [F423or]

(i)a person who is not a person subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act and who is in the United Kingdom as a result of his deportation, expulsion or other removal by compulsion of law from another country to the United Kingdom; F424...

F425(j). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

F425(k). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F426(5) In this regulation—

“EEA national” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016;

“family member” has the meaning given in regulation 7(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 except that regulation 7(4) of those Regulations does not apply for the purposes of paragraphs (3B) and (4)(zd);

“relevant person of Northern Ireland” has the meaning given in Annex 1 of Appendix EU to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971.]

[F427(6) In this regulation references to the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 are to be read with Schedule 4 to the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020(Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Regulations 2020.]

Textual Amendments

F404Word in reg. 21AA(3A)(a) omitted (31.12.2020 immediately after IP completion day) by virtue of The Immigration (Citizens' Rights etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1372), regs., 1(3)(d), 8(2)(a)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Treatment of refugeesE+W+S

F42821ZB.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Reductions in applicable amounts in certain cases of failure to attend coursesE+W+S

F42921A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Reductions in applicable amounts in certain cases of actual or notional unemployment benefit disqualificationE+W+S

F43022.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I21Reg. 22 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F431Reduction in applicable amount where the claimant is appealing against a decision [F432which embodies a determination] that he is not incapable of workE+W+S

22A.(1) Subject to paragraph (3), where a claimant falls within paragraph 25 of Schedule 1B (persons appealing against a decision [F433[F434which embodies a determination] that they are not incapable of work under the personal capability assessment]), and none of the other paragraphs of that Schedule applies to him, his applicable amount shall be reduced by a sum equivalent to 20 per cent. of the following amount—

(a)in the case of a person to whom regulation 17 or 18 or paragraphs 6, 9 to 12 F435... of Schedule 7 applies—

(i)where he is a single claimant aged less than 18 or a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage where all the members, in either case, are less than 18, the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(a), (b) or (c), as the case may be, of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts);

(ii)where he is a single claimant aged not less than 18 but less than 25 or a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage where one member is aged not less than 18 but less than 25 and the other member, or in the case of a polygamous marriage each other member, is a person under 18 who—

(aa)does not qualify for income support under regulation 4ZA, or who would not so qualify if he were to make a claim; and

(bb)does not satisfy the requirements of section 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (prescribed circumstances for persons aged 16 but less than 18); and

(cc)is not the subject of a direction under section 16 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (persons under 18: severe hardship),

the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(d) of that Schedule;

(iii)where he is a single claimant aged not less than 25 or a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage (other than a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage to whom head (ii) of this sub-paragraph applies) at least one of whom is aged not less than 18, the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of that Schedule;

F436(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) A reduction under paragraph (1) shall, if it is not a multiple of 5p, be rounded to the nearest such multiple or, if it is a multiple of 2.5p but not of 5p, to the next lower multiple of 5p.

(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a claimant who is appealing against a decision [F437which embodies a determination] that he is not incapable of work under the [F438personal capability assessment] where that [F439determination] was [F440the first determination made in accordance with, the all work test before 3rd April 2000 or, after that date, the personal capability assessment, in relation to the claimant], and the claimant was, immediately prior to 13th April 1995, either—

(a)in receipt of invalidity pension under Part II of the Contributions and Benefits Act as then in force, or severe disablement allowance; or

(b)incapable of work in accordance with paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 as in force on 12th April 1995 and had been so for a continuous period of 28 weeks.]

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C31Reg. 22A(1): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(i), 20(1)(3), Sch. 4

Period for which applicable amount is to be calculated where person not excluded from income support under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999E+W+S

F44122B.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PART VE+W+SINCOME AND CAPITAL

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

CHAPTER IE+W+Sgeneral

Calculation of income and capital of members of claimant's family and of a polygamous marriageE+W+S

23.—(1) [F442[F443Subject to paragraphs (2) and (4) and to regulation 44 (modifications in respect of children and young persons), the income and capital of a claimant’s partner and] the income of a child or young person which by virtue of section 22(5) of the Act] [F443Subject to paragraph (4), the income and capital of a claimant’s partner which by virtue of section 136(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act] is to be treated as income and capital of the claimant, shall be calculated in accordance with the following provisions of this Part in like manner as for the claimant; and any reference to the “claimant” shall, except where the context otherwise requires, be construed, for the purposes of this Part, as if it were a reference to his partner [F444or that child or young person].

(2) [F445Regulations 36(2) and 38(2), so far as they relate to paragraphs 1 to 10 of Schedule 8 (earnings to be disregarded) and regulation 41(1) (capital treated as income) shall not apply to a child or young person.]

[F445Subject to the following provisions of this Part, the income paid to, or in respect of, and capital of, a child or young person who is a member of the claimant’s family shall not be treated as the income or capital of the claimant.]

(3) [F446Subject to paragraph (5)] where a claimant or the partner of a claimant is married polygamously to two or more members of his household—

(a)the claimant shall be treated as possessing capital and income belonging to each such member [F447and the income of any child or young person who is one of that member's family]; and

(b)the income and capital of that member [F448or, as the case may be, the income of that child or young person ]shall be calculated in accordance with the following provisions of this Part in like manner as for the claimant [F448or, as the case may be, as for any child or young person who is a member of his family].

[F449(4) Where at least one member of a couple is aged less than 18 and the applicable amount of the couple falls to be determined under [F450paragraphs 1(3)(b), (c), (f) or (g)] of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts), the income of the claimant’s partner shall not be treated as the income of the claimant to the extent that–

(a)in the case of a couple where both members are aged less than 18, the amount specified in paragraph 1(3)(a) of that Schedule exceeds the amount specified in [F451paragraph 1(3)(c)] of that Schedule; and

(b)in the case of a couple where only one member is aged less than 18, the amount specified in paragraph 1(3)(d) of that Schedule exceeds the amount which applies in that case which is specified in [F452paragraph 1(3)(f) or (g)] of that Schedule.]

[F449(5) Where a member of a polygamous marriage is a partner aged less than 18 and the amount which applies in respect of him under regulation 18(2) (polygamous marriages) is nil, the claimant shall not be treated as possessing the income of that partner to the extent that an amount in respect of him would have been included in the applicable amount if he had fallen within the circumstances set out in regulation 18(2)(a) or (b).]

Textual Amendments

F443Words in reg. 23(1) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 6(a)(i)

F444Words in reg. 23(1) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 6(a)(ii)

F445Reg. 23(2) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 6(b)

F447Words in reg. 23(3)(a) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 6(c)

F448Words in reg. 23(3)(b) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 6(d)

Commencement Information

I22Reg. 23 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F453Income of participants in the self-employment routeF454...E+W+S

23A.  Chapters II, III, IV, V, VII and VIIA of this Part and regulations 62 to 66A, 68 and 69 shall not apply to any income which is to be calculated in accordance with Chapter IVA of this Part (participants in the self-employment routeF455...).]

Treatment of charitable or voluntary paymentsE+W+S

F45624.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I23Reg. 24 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

F457... liable relative paymentsE+W+S

25.  Regulations 29 to [F45844] [F45842], 46 to 52 and Chapter VIII of this Part shall not apply to any payment which is to be calculated in accordance with Chapter VII thereof ([F459F460... liable relative payments]).

Textual Amendments

F457Words in reg. 25 heading omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(5)

F458Word in reg. 25 substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 7

F459Words in reg. 25 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(3)

F460Words in reg. 25 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(6)

Commencement Information

I24Reg. 25 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Child supportE+W+S

F46125A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F461Reg. 25A omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(a)

Calculation of income and capital of students E+W+S

26.  The provisions of Chapters II to VI of this Part (income and capital) shall [F462have effect in relation to students and their partners subject to the modifications set out in Chapter VIII thereof (students)].

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I25Reg. 26 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F463Rounding of fractionsE+W+S

27.  Where any calculation under this Part results in a fraction of a penny that fraction shall, if it would be to the claimant’s advantage, be treated as a penny, otherwise it shall be disregarded.]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I26Reg. 27 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

CHAPTER IIE+W+Sincome

Calculation of incomeE+W+S

28.—(1) For the purposes of section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) the income of a claimant shall be calculated on a weekly basis—

(a)by determining in accordance with this Part, other than Chapter VI, the weekly amount of his income; and

(b)by adding to that amount the weekly income calculated under regulation 53 (calculation of tariff income from capital).

[F464(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) “income” includes capital treated as income under regulation 41 (capital treated as income) and income which a claimant is treated as possessing under regulation 42 (notional income).]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I27Reg. 28 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Calculation of earnings derived from employed earner's employment and income other than earningsE+W+S

29.—(1) F465... Earnings derived from employment as an employed earner and income which does not consist of earnings shall be taken into account over a period determined in accordance with the following paragraphs and at a weekly amount determined in accordance with regulation 32 (calculation of weekly amount of income).

(2) Subject to [F466the following provisions of this regulation], the period over which a payment is to be taken into account shall be—

[F467(a)where the payment is monthly, a period equal to the number of weeks from the date on which the payment is treated as paid to the date immediately before the date on which the next monthly payment would have been so treated as paid whether or not the next monthly payment is actually paid;

(aa)where the payment is in respect of a period which is not monthly, a period equal to the length of the period for which payment is made;]

(b)in any other case, a period equal to such number of weeks as is equal to the number obtained (and any fraction shall be treated as a corresponding fraction of a week) by dividing the net earnings, or in the case of income which does not consist of earnings, the amount of that income [F468less any amount paid by way of tax on that income which is disregarded under paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 (income other than earnings to be disregarded)] by the amount of income support which would be payable had the payment not been made plus an amount equal to the total of the sums which would fall to be disregarded from that payment under Schedule 8 [F469(earnings to be disregarded) or, as the case maybe, any paragraph of Schedule 9 other than paragraph 1 of that Schedule,] as is appropriate in the claimant's case,

and that period shall begin on the date on which the payment is treated as paid under regulation 31 (date on which income is treated as paid).

[F470(2A) The period over which a Career Development Loan, which is paid pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973, shall be taken into account shall be the period of education and training intended to be supported by that loan.

(2B) Where grant income as defined in Chapter VIII of this Part has been paid to a person who ceases to be a [F471full-time student] before the end of the period in respect of which that income is payable and, as a consequence, the whole or part of that income falls to be repaid by that person, that income shall be taken into account over the period beginning on the date on which that income is treated as paid under regulation 31 and ending—

(a)on the date on which repayment is made in full; or

[F472(aa)where the grant is paid in instalments, on the day before the next instalment would have been paid had the claimant remained a [F471full-time student]; or]

(b)on the last date of the academic term or vacation during which that person ceased to be a [F471full-time student],

whichever shall first occur.]

[F473(2C) (a) This paragraph applies where earnings are derived by a claimant as a member of a reserve force prescribed in Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Contributions Regulations—

(i)in respect of a period of annual continuous training for a maximum of 15 days in any calendar year; or

(ii)in respect of training in the claimant’s first year of training as a member of a reserve force for a maximum of 43 days in that year.

(b)Earnings, whether paid to the claimant alone or together with other earnings derived from the same source, are to be taken into account—

(i)in the case of a period of training which lasts for the number of days listed in column 1 of the table in sub-paragraph (c), over a period of time which is equal to the number of days set out in the corresponding row in column 2 of that table; or

(ii)in any other case, over a period of time which is equal to the number of days of the training period.

(c)This is the table referred to in sub-paragraph (b)(i)—

Column 1

Column 2

Period of training in days

Period of time over which earnings are to be taken into account in days

8 to 107
15 to 1714
22 to 2421
29 to 3128
36 to 3835
4342]

[F474(2D) The period over which earnings to which paragraph (2C) applies are to be taken into account shall begin on the date on which the payment is treated as paid under regulation 31.]

(3) Where earnings not of the same kind are derived from the same source and the periods in respect of which those earnings would, but for this paragraph, fall to be taken into account—

(a)overlap, wholly or partly, those earnings shall be taken into account over a period equal to the aggregate length of those periods;

(b)and that period shall begin with the earliest date on which any part of those earnings would otherwise be treated as paid under regulation 31 (date on which income is treated as paid).

[F475(4) In a case to which paragraph (3) applies, earnings under regulation 35 (earnings of employed earners) shall be taken into account in the following order of priority—

(a)earnings normally derived from the employment;

(b)any payment to which paragraph (1)(b) or (c) of that regulation applies;

(c)any payment to which paragraph (1)(i) of that regulation applies;

(d)any payment to which paragraph (1)(d) of that regulation applies.]

[F476(4A) Where earnings to which regulation 35(1)(b) to (d) (earnings of employed earners) applies are paid in respect of part of a day, those earnings shall be taken into account over a period equal to a day.]

F477(4B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F478(4C) Any earnings to which regulation 35(1)(i)(ii) applies which are paid in respect of or on the termination of part-time employment, shall be taken into account over a period equal to one week.]

[F478(4D) In this regulation—

(a)“part-time employment” means employment in which a person is not to be treated as engaged in remunerative work under regulation 5 or [F4796(1)] [F480and (4)] (persons treated, or not treated, as engaged in remunerative work);]

F481(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5) For the purposes of this regulation the claimant's earnings and income which does not consist of earnings shall be calculated in accordance with Chapters III and V respectively of this Part.

Textual Amendments

F466Words in reg. 29(2) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/65), regs. 1(1)(2), 5(1)(a)

F468Words in reg. 29(2)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 10(a)

F469Words in reg. 29(2)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 10(b)

F470Reg. 29(2A)(2B) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/65), regs. 1(1)(2), 5(1)(b)

F472Reg. 29(2B)(aa) inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/563), regs. 1(2), 12

Commencement Information

I28Reg. 29 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Calculation of earnings of self-employed earnersE+W+S

30.—(1) Except where paragraph (2) applies, where a claimant's income consists of earnings from employment as a self-employed earner the weekly amount of his earnings shall be determined by reference to his average weekly earnings from that employment—

(a)over a period of [F482one year]; or

(b)where the claimant has recently become engaged in that employment or there has been a change which is likely to affect the normal pattern of business, over such other period F483... as may, in any particular case, enable the weekly amount of his earnings to be determined more accurately.

(2) Where the claimant's earnings consist of [F484any items to which paragraph (2A) applies] those earnings shall be taken into account over a period equal to such number of weeks as is equal to the number obtained (and any fraction shall be treated as a corresponding fraction of a week) by dividing the earnings by the amount of income support which would be payable had the payment not been made plus an amount equal to the total of the sums which would fall to be disregarded from the payment under Schedule 8 (earnings to be disregarded) as is appropriate in the claimant's case.

[F485(2A) This paragraph applies to—

(a)royalties or other sums paid as a consideration for the use of, or the right to use, any copyright, design, patent or trade mark; or

(b)any payment in respect of any—

(i)book registered under the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982; or

(ii)work made under any international public lending right scheme that is analogous to the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982,

where the claimant is the first owner of the copyright, design, patent or trade mark, or an original contributor to the book or work concerned.]

(3) For the purposes of this regulation the claimant's earnings shall be calculated in accordance with Chapter IV of this Part.

Textual Amendments

F482Words in reg. 30(1)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 11(a)

F483Words in reg. 30(1)(b) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 11(b)

F484Words in reg. 30(2) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/698), reg. 2(6)(a)

F485Reg. 30(2A) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/583), reg. 2(6)

Commencement Information

I29Reg. 30 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Date on which income is treated as paidE+W+S

31.—(1) Except where paragraph [F486(2) [F487applies]], a payment of income to which regulation 29 (calculation of earnings derived from employed earner's employment and income other than earnings) applies shall be treated as paid—

(a)in the case of a payment which is due to be paid before the first benefit week pursuant to the claim, on the date on which it is due to be paid;

(b)in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week in which it is due to be paid or the first succeeding benefit week in which it is practicable to take it into account.

(2) Income support, [F488jobseeker’s allowance], [F489maternity allowance,] [F490short-term or long-term incapacity benefit], [F491severe disablement allowance [F492, employment and support allowance or universal credit]] F493... shall be treated as paid [F494on any day] in respect of which [F495it is payable].

F496(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F496(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F488Words in reg. 31(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 15

Commencement Information

I30Reg. 31 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Calculation of weekly amount of incomeE+W+S

32.—(1) For the purposes of regulation 29 (calculation of earnings derived from employed earner's employment and income other than earnings) F497..., subject to [F498paragraphs (2) to (7)] F499..., where the period in respect of which a payment [F500of income or tax credit] is made—

(a)does not exceed a week, the weekly amount shall be the amount of that payment;

(b)exceeds a week, the weekly amount shall be determined—

(i)in a case where that period is a month, by multiplying the amount of the payment by 12 and dividing the product by 52;

(ii)in a case where that period is three months, by multiplying the amount of the payment by 4 and dividing the product by 52;

[F501(iii)in a case where that period is a year and the payment is an award of working tax credit, by dividing the payment by the number of days in the year and multiplying the result by 7;

(iiia)in a case where that period is a year and the payment is income other than an award of working tax credit, by dividing the amount of the payment by 52;]

(iv)in any other case by multiplying the amount of the payment by 7 and dividing the product by the number equal to the number of days in the period in respect of which it is made.

(2) Where a payment for a period not exceeding a week is treated under regulation 31(1)(a) (date on which income is treated as paid) as paid before the first benefit week and a part is to be taken into account for some days only in that week (the relevant days), the amount to be taken into account for the relevant days shall be calculated by multiplying the amount of the payment by the number equal to the number of relevant days and dividing the product by the number of days in the period in respect of which it is made.

(3) Where a payment is in respect of a period equal to or in excess of a week and a part thereof is to be taken into account for some days only in a benefit week (the relevant days), the amount to be taken into account for the relevant days shall, except where paragraph (4) applies, be calculated by multiplying the amount of the payment by the number equal to the number of relevant days and dividing the product by the number of days in the period in respect of which it is made.

(4) In the case of a payment of—

(a)F502..., [F503maternity allowance,] [F504short-term or long-term incapacity benefit], or severe disablement allowanceF504..., the amount to be taken into account for the relevant days shall be the amount of benefit [F505payable] in respect of those days;

(b)income support [F506, jobseeker's allowance or employment and support allowance], the amount to be taken into account for the relevant days shall be calculated by multiplying the weekly amount of the benefit by the number of relevant days and dividing the product by seven.

(5) Except in the case of a payment which it has not been practicable to treat under regulation 31(1)(b) as paid on the first day of the benefit week in which it is due to be paid, where a payment of income from a particular source is or has been paid regularly and that payment falls to be taken into account in the same benefit week as a payment of the same kind and from the same source, the amount of that income to be taken into account in any one benefit week shall not exceed the weekly amount determined under paragraph (1)(a) or (b), as the case may be, of the payment which under regulation 31(1)(b) (date on which income is treated as paid) is treated as paid first.

(6) Where the amount of the claimant's income fluctuates and has changed more than once, or a claimant's regular pattern of work is such that he does not work every week, the foregoing paragraphs may be modified so that the weekly amount of his income is determined by reference to his average weekly income—

(a)if there is a recognisable cycle of work, over the period of one complete cycle (including, where the cycle involves periods in which the claimant does no work, those periods but disregarding any other absences);

(b)in any other case, over a period of five weeks or such other period as may, in the particular case, enable the claimant's average weekly income to be determined more accurately.

[F507(6A) Where income is taken into account under paragraph (2B) of regulation 29 over the period specified in that paragraph, the amount of that income to be taken into account in respect of any week in that period shall be an amount equal to the amount of that income which would have been taken into account under regulation 62 had the person to whom that income was paid not ceased to be a [F508full-time student].]

[F509(7) Where any payment of earnings is taken into account under paragraph (4C) of regulation 29 (calculation of earnings derived from employed earner’s employment and income other than earnings), over the period specified in that paragraph, the amount to be taken into account shall be equal to the amount of the payment.]

Textual Amendments

F502Words in reg. 32(4)(a) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 16(a)

F507Reg. 32(6A) added (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/65), regs. 1(1)(2), 6(1)

Commencement Information

I31Reg. 32 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Weekly amount of charitable or voluntary paymentE+W+S

F51033.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I32Reg. 33 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Incomplete weeks of benefitE+W+S

F51134.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I33Reg. 34 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

CHAPTER IIIE+W+Semployed earners

Earnings of employed earnersE+W+S

35.—(1) [F512Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3),]earnings” means in the case of employment as an employed earner, any remuneration or profit derived from that employment and includes—

(a)any bonus or commission;

(b)any payment in lieu of remuneration except any periodic sum paid to a claimant on account of the termination of his employment by reason of redundancy;

(c)any payment in lieu of notice F513...;

(d)any holiday pay except any payable more than four weeks after the termination or interruption of employment but this exception shall not apply to a claimant to whom [F514section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 23A(b) of the Act (effect of return to work).]

(e)any payment by way of a retainer;

(f)any payment made by the claimant's employer in respect of expenses not wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred in the performance of the duties of the employment, including any payment made by the claimant's employer in respect of—

(i)travelling expenses incurred by the claimant between his home and place of employment;

(ii)expenses incurred by the claimant under arrangements made for the care of a member of his family owing to the claimant's absence from home;

(g)any award of compensation made under section [F515112(4) or 117(3)(a) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (the remedies: orders and compensation, enforcement of order and compensation)];

[F516(gg)any payment or remuneration made under section 28, 34, 64, 68 or 70 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (right to guarantee payments, remuneration on suspension on medical or maternity grounds, complaints to employment tribunals);]

(h)any such sum as is referred to in section [F517112(3) of the Contributions and Benefits Act] (certain sums to be earnings for social security purposes).

[F518(i)where—

F519(i). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(ii)a payment of compensation is made in respect of employment which is part-time employment, the amount of the compensation.]

[F520(j)the amount of any payment by way of a non-cash voucher which has been taken into account in the computation of a person’s earnings in accordance with [F521Part 5 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001].]

F522(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) “Earnings” shall not include—

(a)[F523subject to paragraph (2A),] any payment in kind;

(b)any remuneration paid by or on behalf of an employer to the claimant [F524in respect of a period throughout which the claimant is on maternity leave [F525, paternity leave [F526, adoption leave [F527, shared parental leave or parental bereavement leave]]] or is absent from work because he is ill];

(c)any payment in respect of expenses wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred in the performance of the duties of the employment;

(d)any occupational pension.

[F528(e)any lump sum payment made under the Iron and Steel Re-adaptation Benefits Scheme]

[F529(f)any payment in respect of expenses arising out of the [F530claimant participating as a service user].]

[F531(2A) Paragraph (2)(a) shall not apply in respect of any non-cash voucher referred to in paragraph (1)(j).]

[F532(3) In this regulation—

(a)“compensation” means any payment made in respect of or on the termination of employment in a case where a person has not received or received only part of a payment in lieu of notice due or which would have been due to him had he not waived his right to receive it, other than—

(i)any payment specified in paragraph (1)(a) to (h);

(ii)any payment specified in paragraph (2)(a) to [F533(e)];

(iii)any redundancy payment within the meaning of section [F534135(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996], and

(iv)any refund of contributions to which that person was entitled under an occupational pension scheme within the meaning of section 66(1) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975;

[F535(v) any compensation payable by virtue of section 173 or section 178(3) or (4) of the Education Reform Act 1988.]

F536(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)“part-time employment” means employment in which a person is not to be treated as engaged in remunerative work under regulation 5 or [F5376(1)] [F538and (4)] (persons treated, or not treated, as engaged in remunerative work).]

Textual Amendments

F520Reg. 35(1)(j) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Non-Cash Vouchers) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1509), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(a)

F523Words in reg. 35(2)(a) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Non-Cash Vouchers) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1509), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(b)

F524Words in reg. 35(2)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 12

F529Reg. 35(2)(f) added (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(7)

F531Reg. 35(2A) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Non-Cash Vouchers) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1509), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(c)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I34Reg. 35 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Calculation of net earnings of employed earnersE+W+S

36.—(1) For the purposes of regulation 29 (calculation of earnings of employed earners) the earnings of a claimant derived from employment as an employed earner to be taken into account shall, subject to paragraph (2), be his net earnings.

(2) There shall be disregarded from a claimant's net earnings, any sum, where applicable, specified in paragraphs 1 to 13 [F539or 15A] of Schedule 8.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) net earnings shall be calculated by taking into account the gross earnings of the claimant from that employment less—

(a)any amount deducted from those earnings by way of—

(i)income tax;

(ii)primary Class 1 contributions under the Social Security ActF540; and

(b)one-half of any sum paid by the claimant [F541in respect of a pay period] by way of a contribution towards an occupational or personal pension scheme.

Textual Amendments

F541Words in reg. 36(3)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 26

Commencement Information

I35Reg. 36 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

CHAPTER IVE+W+Sself-employed earners

Earnings of self-employed earnersE+W+S

37.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), “earnings”, in the case of employment as a self-employed earner, means the gross receipts of the employment and shall include any allowance paid under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973F542 [F543or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990] to the claimant for the purpose of assisting him in carrying on his business.

[F544(2) “Earnings” shall not include—

(a)where a claimant is involved in providing board and lodging accommodation for which a charge is payable, any payment by way of such a charge;]

[F545(b)any payment to which paragraph [F54626, 27 or 27A] of Schedule 9 refers (payments in respect of a person accommodated with the claimant under an arrangement made by a local authority or voluntary organisation [F547, payments] made to the claimant by a health authority, local authority or voluntary organisation in respect of persons temporarily in the claimant’s care [F548and any payments made to a claimant under section 73(1)(b) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (kinship care assistance)]).]

[F549(ba)any payment made in accordance with section 26A of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (duty to provide continuing care)—

(i)to a claimant; or

(ii)where paragraph (3) applies, to another person (“A”) which A passes on to the claimant;]

[F550(c)any sports award.]

[F551(3) This paragraph applies only where A—

(a)was formerly in the claimant’s care;

(b)is aged 16 or over; and

(c)continues to live with the claimant.]

Textual Amendments

F5421973 c. 50; section 2 was amended by sections 9 and 11 and Schedule 2 Part II paragraph 9 and Schedule 3 of the Employment and Training Act 1981 (c. 57).

F544Reg. 37(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 16

F545Reg. 37(2)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 27

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I36Reg. 37 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Calculation of net profit of self-employed earnersE+W+S

38.—(1) For the purposes of regulation 30 (calculation of earnings of self-employed earners), the earnings of a claimant to be taken into account shall be—

(a)in the case of a self-employed earner who is engaged in employment on his own account, the net profit derived from that employment;

(b)in the case of a self-employed earner whose employment is carried on in partnership or is that of a share fisherman within the meaning of the Social Security (Mariners' Benefits) Regulations 1975F552, his share of the net profit derived from that employment less—

(i)an amount in respect of income tax and of social security contributions payable under the Social Security Act calculated in accordance with regulation 39 (deduction of tax and contributions for self-employed earners); and

(ii)[F553one half of any premium paid [F554in the period that is relevant under regulation 30] in respect of F555... a personal pension scheme].

(2) There shall be disregarded from a claimant's net profit any sum, where applicable, specified in paragraphs 1 to 13 F556... of Schedule 8.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (a) the net profit of the employment shall, except where paragraph (9) applies, be calculated by taking into account the earnings of the employment over the period determined under regulation 30 (calculation of earnings of self-employed earners) less—

(a)subject to paragraphs (5) to (7), any expenses wholly and exclusively defrayed in that period for the purposes of that employment;

(b)an amount in respect of—

(i)income tax; and

(ii)social security contributions payable under the Social Security Act, calculated in accordance with regulation 39 (deduction of tax and contributions for self-employed earners); and

(c)[F553one half of any premium paid [F557in the period that is relevant under regulation 30] in respect of F558... a personal pension scheme].

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (b), the net profit of the employment shall be calculated by taking into account the earnings of the employment over the period determined under regulation 30 less, subject to paragraphs (5) to (7), any expenses wholly and exclusively defrayed in that period for the purposes of that employment.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), no deduction shall be made under paragraph (3) (a) or (4) in respect of—

(a)any capital expenditure;

(b)the depreciation of any capital asset;

(c)any sum employed or intended to be employed in the setting up or expansion of the employment;

(d)any loss incurred before the beginning of the period determined under regulation 30 (calculation of earnings of self-employed earners);

(e)the repayment of capital on any loan taken out for the purposes of the employment;

(f)any expenses incurred in providing business entertainment.

(6) A deduction shall be made under paragraph (3) (a) or (4) in respect of the repayment of capital on any loan used for—

(a)the replacement in the course of business of equipment or machinery; and

(b)the repair of an existing business asset except to the extent that any sum is payable under an insurance policy for its repair.

(7) [F559The Secretary of State] shall refuse to make a deduction in respect of any expenses under paragraph (3) (a) or (4) where he is not satisfied that the expense has been defrayed or, having regard to the nature of the expense and its amount, that it has been reasonably incurred.

(8) For the avoidance of doubt—

(a)a deduction shall not be made under paragraph (3) (a) or (4) in respect of any sum unless it has been expended for the purposes of the business;

(b)a deduction shall be made thereunder in respect of—

(i)the excess of any VAT paid over VAT received in the period determined under regulation 30 (calculation of earnings of self-employed earners);

(ii)any income expended in the repair of an existing asset except to the extent that any sum is payable under an insurance policy for its repair;

(iii)any payment of interest on a loan taken out for the purposes of the employment.

(9) Where a claimant is engaged in employment as a child minder the net profit of the employment shall be one-third of the earnings of that employment, less—

(a)an amount in respect of—

(i)income tax; and

(ii)social security contributions payable under the Social Security Act, calculated in accordance with regulation 39 (deduction of tax and contributions for self-employed earners); and

(b)[F553one half of any premium paid in respect of F560... a personal pension scheme].

(10) Notwithstanding regulation 30 (calculation of earnings of self-employed earners) and the foregoing paragraphs, [F561the Secretary of State] may assess any item of a claimant's income or expenditure over a period other than that determined under regulation 30 as may, in the particular case, enable the weekly amount of that item of income or expenditure to be determined more accurately.

(11) For the avoidance of doubt where a claimant is engaged in employment as a self-employed earner and he is also engaged in one or more other employments as a self-employed or employed earner any loss incurred in any one of his employments shall not be offset against his earnings in any other of his employments.

F562(12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F553Words in reg. 38 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 13(2)

F554Words in reg. 38(1)(b)(ii) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 28

F557Words in reg. 38(3)(c) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 28

Commencement Information

I37Reg. 38 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Deduction of tax and contributions for self-employed earnersE+W+S

39.—(1) The amount to be deducted in respect of income tax under regulation 38 (1) (b) (i), (3) (b) (i) or (9) (a) (i) (calculation of net profit of self-employed earners) shall be calculated on the basis of the amount of chargeable income and as if that income were assessable to income tax at F563... [F564the basic rate [F565, or in the case of a Scottish taxpayer, the Scottish basic rate,] of tax] less only the [F566personal reliefs to which the claimant is entitled under Chapters 2, 3 and 3A of Part 3 of the Income Tax Act 2007 as are] appropriate to his circumstances; but, if the period determined under regulation 30 (calculation of earnings of self-employed earners) is less than a year, [F567the earnings to which the [F568[F569basic] rate] [F570, or the Scottish basic rate,] F571... of tax is to be applied and] the amount of the [F572personal reliefs] deductible under this paragraph shall be calculated on a pro rata basis.

(2) The amount to be deducted in respect of social security contributions under regulation 38(1)(b)(i), (3)(b)(ii) or (9)(a)(ii) shall be the total of—

F573(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F574(b)the amount of Class 4 contributions (if any) which would be payable under section 15 of that Act (Class 4 contributions recoverable under the Income Tax Acts) at the percentage rate applicable at the date of claim on so much of the chargeable income as exceeds the lower limit but does not exceed the upper limit of profits and gains applicable for the tax year in which the date of claim falls; but if the assessment period is less than a year, those limits shall be reduced pro rata.]

(3) In this regulation “chargeable income” means—

(a)except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, the earnings derived from the employment less any expenses deducted under paragraph (3) (a) or, as the case may be, (4) of regulation 38;

(b)in the case of employment as a child minder, one-third of the earnings of that employment.

Textual Amendments

F564Words in reg. 39(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 17(a)

F567Words in reg. 39(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 17(b)

F571Words in reg. 39(1) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 29

F574Reg. 39(2)(a)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 14

Commencement Information

I38Reg. 39 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F575CHAPTER IVAE+W+SPARTICIPANTS IN THE SELF-EMPLOYMENT ROUTEF576...

InterpretationE+W+S

39A.  In this Chapter—

  • F577...

  • “special account" means, where a person was carrying on a commercial activity in respect of which assistance is received under the self-employment route, the account into which the gross receipts from that activity were payable during the period in respect of which such assistance was received.

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Treatment of gross receipts of participants in the self-employment routeF578...E+W+S

39B.  The gross receipts of a commercial activity carried on by a person in respect of which assistance is received under the self-employment route, shall be taken into account in accordance with the following provisions of this Chapter.

Calculation of income of participants in the self-employment routeF579...E+W+S

39C.(1) The income of a person who has received assistance under the self-employment route shall be calculated by taking into account the whole of the monies in the special account at the end of the last day upon which such assistance was received and deducting from those monies—

(a)an amount in respect of income tax calculated in accordance with regulation 39D (deduction in respect of tax for participants in the self-employment routeF580...); and

(b)any sum to which paragraph (4) refers.

(2) Income calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be apportioned equally over a period which starts on the date the income is treated as paid under paragraph (3) and is equal in length to the period beginning with the day upon which assistance was first received under the self-employment route and ending on the last day upon which such assistance was received.

(3) Income calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be treated as paid—

(a)in the case where it is due to be paid before the first benefit week in respect of which the participant or his partner first claims income support following the last day upon which assistance was received under the self-employment route, on the day in the week in which it is due to be paid which corresponds to the first day of the benefit week;

(b)in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week in which it is due to be paid.

(4) This paragraph refers, where applicable in each benefit week in respect of which income calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) is taken into account pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3), to the sums which would have been disregarded under paragraphs 4 to 6B and 9 of Schedule 8 had the income been earnings.

Deduction in respect of tax for participants in the self-employment routeF581...E+W+S

39D.(1) The amount to be deducted in respect of income tax under regulation 39C(1)(a) (calculation of income of participants in the self-employment routeF582...) in respect of the period determined under regulation 39C(2) shall be calculated as if—

(a)the chargeable income is the only income chargeable to tax;

[F583(b)the personal reliefs applicable to the person receiving assistance under the self-employment route under Chapters 2, 3 and 3A of Part 3 of the Income Tax Act 2007 are allowable against that income;]

(c)the rate at which the chargeable income less the personal [F584reliefs] is assessable to income tax is F585... the basic rate [F586, or in the case of a Scottish taxpayer, the Scottish basic rate,] of tax.

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), the [F587[F588basic] rate] [F589, or the Scottish basic rate,] of tax to be applied and the amount of the [F590personal reliefs] deductible shall, where the period determined under regulation 39C(2) is less than a year, be calculated on a pro rata basis.

(3) In this regulation, “chargeable income" means the monies in the special account at the end of the last day upon which assistance was received under the self-employment route.]

Textual Amendments

CHAPTER VE+W+Sother income

Calculation of income other than earningsE+W+S

40.—(1) For the purposes of regulation 29 (calculation of income other than earnings) F591... the income of a claimant which does not consist of earnings to be taken into account shall, subject to [F592paragraphs (2) to (3B)], be his gross income and any capital treated as income under[F593 regulations F594... 41 and 44 (F594... capital treated as income and modifications in respect of children and young persons)] [F593regulation 41 (capital treated as income)].

(2) There shall be disregarded from the calculation of a claimant's gross income under paragraph (1), any sum, where applicable, specified in Schedule 9.

(3) Where the payment of any benefit under the benefit Acts F595 is subject to any deduction by way of recovery the amount to be taken into account under paragraph (1) shall be the gross amount payable.

[F596(3A) [F597Paragraphs (3AA) and (3AAA) apply] where—

(a)a relevant payment has been made to a person in an academic year; and

(b)that person abandons, or is dismissed from, his course of study before the payment to him of the final instalment of the relevant payment.

(3AA) [F598Where a relevant payment is made quarterly, the] amount of a relevant payment to be taken into account for the assessment period for the purposes of paragraph (1) in respect of a person to whom paragraph (3A) applies, shall be calculated by applying the formula—

where—

A = the total amount of the relevant payment which that person would have received had he remained a student until the last day of the academic term in which he abandoned, or was dismissed from, his course, less any deduction under regulation 66A(5);

B = the number of benefit weeks from the benefit week immediately following that which includes the first day of that academic year to the benefit week immediately before that which includes the day on which the person abandoned, or was dismissed from, his course;

C = the weekly amount of the relevant payment, before the application of the £10 disregard, which would have been taken into account as income under regulation 66A(2) had the person not abandoned or been dismissed from, his course and, in the case of a person who was not entitled to income support immediately before he abandoned or was dismissed from his course, had that person, at that time, been entitled to income support;

D = the number of benefit weeks in the assessment period.

[F599(3AAA) Where a relevant payment is made by two or more instalments in a quarter, the amount of a relevant payment to be taken into account for the assessment period for the purposes of paragraph (1) in respect of a person to whom paragraph (3A) applies, shall be calculated by applying the formula in paragraph (3AA) but as if—

  • A = the total amount of relevant payments which that person received, or would have received, from the first day of the academic year to the day the person abandoned the course, or was dismissed from it, less any deduction under regulation 66A(5).]

(3AB) [F600In this regulation]

“academic year” and “student loan” shall have the same meanings as for the purposes of Chapter VIII of this Part;

[F601“assessment period” means—

(a)in a case where a relevant payment is made quarterly, the period beginning with the benefit week which includes the day on which the person abandoned, or was dismissed from, his course and ending with the benefit week which includes the last day of the last quarter for which an instalment of the relevant payment was payable to that person;

(b)in a case where the relevant payment is made by two or more instalments in a quarter, the period beginning with the benefit week which includes the day on which the person abandoned, or was dismissed from, his course and ending with the benefit week which includes—

(i)the day immediately before the day on which the next instalment of the relevant payment would have been due had the payments continued; or

(ii)the last day of the last quarter for which an instalment of the relevant payment was payable to that person,

whichever of those dates is earlier;]

[F602“quarter” in relation to an assessment period means a period in that year beginning on—

(a)1st January and ending on 31st March;

(b)1st April and ending on 30th June;

(c)1st July and ending on 31st August; or

(d)1st September and ending on 31st December;]

“relevant payment” means either a student loan or an amount intended for the maintenance of dependants referred to in regulation 62(3B) or both.]

[F603(3B) In the case of income to which regulation 29(2B) applies (calculation of income of former students), the amount of income to be taken into account for the purposes of paragraph (1) shall be the amount of that income calculated in accordance with regulation 32(6A) and on the basis that none of that income has been repaid.]

(4) [F604Subject to paragraph (5)] for the avoidance of doubt there shall be included as income to be taken into account under paragraph (1)[F605

(a)any payment to which regulation 35(2) or 37(2) (payments not earnings) applies; or

(b)in the case of a claimant who is receiving support provided under section 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act including support provided by virtue of regulations made under Schedule 9 to that Act, the amount of such support provided in respect of essential living needs of the claimant and his [F606dependants] [F606partner] (if any) as is specified in regulations made under paragraph 3 of Schedule 8 to the Immigration and Asylum Act;]

[F607(5) In the case of a claimant who is the partner of a person subject to immigration control and whose partner is receiving support provided under section 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act including support provided by virtue of regulations made under Schedule 9 to that Act, there shall not be included as income to be taken into account under paragraph (1) the amount of support provided in respect of essential living needs of the partner of the claimant and his dependants (if any) as is specified in regulations made under paragraph 3 of Schedule 8 to the Immigration and Asylum Act.]

[F608(6) Where the claimant—

(a)is a member of a couple;

(b)his partner is receiving a contributory employment and support allowance; and

(c)that benefit has been reduced under regulation 63 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations [F609or section 11J of the Welfare Reform Act as the case may be],

the amount of that benefit to be taken into account is the amount as if it had not been so reduced.]

Textual Amendments

F592Words in reg. 40(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/563), regs. 1(2), 13(1)(a)

F593Words in reg. 40(1) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 8(a)

F595The benefit Acts are specified in section 84(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50).

F597Words in reg. 40(3A) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)(a)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 2(2)(a)

F598Words in reg. 40(3AA) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)(a)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 2(2)(b)

F599Reg. 40(3AAA) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)(a)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 2(2)(c)

F600Words in reg. 40(3AB) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)(a)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 2(2)(d)(i)

F601Words in reg. 40(3AB) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)(a)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 2(2)(d)(ii)

F602Words in reg. 40(3AB) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3)(a)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 2(2)(d)(iii)

F603Reg. 40(3B) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/65), regs. 1(1)(2), 7(1)

F606Word in reg. 40(4)(b) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 8(b)

Commencement Information

I39Reg. 40 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Capital treated as incomeE+W+S

41.[F610(1) Capital which is payable by instalments which are outstanding on–

(a)the first day in respect of which income support is payable or the date of the determination of the claim, whichever is earlier; or

(b)in the case of a supersession, the date of that supersession,

shall be treated as income if the aggregate of the instalments outstanding and the amount of the claimant’s capital otherwise calculated in accordance with Chapter VI of this Part exceedsF611... £16,000.]

(2) Any payment received under an annuity shall be treated as income.

(3) [F612In the case of a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies [F613or in respect of whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 23A(b) of the Act (effect of return to work)], any payment under [F614[F615section 17, 23B, 23C or 24A of the Children Act 1989] or, as the case may be, [F616section 12 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 or sections 29 or 30 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995] (local authorities' duty to promote welfare of children and powers to grant financial assistance to persons in, or formerly in, their care) shall be treated as income].]

[F617(4) In the case of a person to whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 23A(b) of that Act (effect of return to work), any amount by way of repayment of income tax deducted from his emoluments in pursuance of section 203 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988, shall be treated as income.]

[F618(5) Any earnings to the extent that they are not a payment of income shall be treated as income.]

[F619(6) Any Career Development Loan paid pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 shall be treated as income.]

[F620(7) Where an agreement or court order provides that payments shall be made to the claimant in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant and that such payments are to be made, wholly or partly, by way of periodical payments, any such periodical payments received by the claimant (but not a payment which is treated as capital by virtue of this Part), shall be treated as income.]

Textual Amendments

F611Words in reg. 41(1) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2465), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(2)

F612Reg. 41(3) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 9

F619Reg. 41(6) added (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/65), regs. 1(1)(2), 3(3)(e)

Commencement Information

I40Reg. 41 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Notional incomeE+W+S

42.[F621(1) A claimant is to be treated as possessing income of which the claimant has deprived themselves for the purpose of securing entitlement to income support or increasing the amount of that benefit, or for the purpose of securing entitlement to, or increasing the amount of a jobseeker’s allowance or an employment and support allowance.]

(2) Except in the case of—

(a)a discretionary trust;

(b)a trust derived from a payment made in consequence of a personal injury;

[F622(c)jobseeker’s allowance;]

[F623(d)[F624child benefit to which paragraph (2D) refers;]]

(e)[F625working tax credit];

(f)[F626child tax credit],

[F627(g)a personal pension scheme [F628, occupational pension scheme] [F629, F630... or a payment made by the Board of the Pension Protection Fund] where the claimant [F631has not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit],]

[F632(ga)any sum to which paragraph (8ZA) applies;]

F633(h). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F634(i)any sum to which paragraph 44(2)(a) of Schedule 10 (capital to be disregarded) applies which is administered in the way referred to in paragraph 44(1)(a);

(ia)any sum to which paragraph 45(a) of Schedule 10 refers; or]

[F635(j)rehabilitation allowance made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973.]

income which would become available to the claimant upon application being made but which has not been acquired by him shall be treated as possessed by him but only from the date on which [F636it could be expected to be acquired were an application made].

[F637(2ZA) A claimant who has attained the [F638qualifying age for state pension credit] shall be treated as possessing—

(a)the amount of any income from an occupational pension scheme, [F639a personal pension schemeF640... or the Board of the Pension Protection Fund]

(i)for which no claim has been made, and

(ii)to which he might expect to be entitled if a claim for it were made;

(b)income from an occupational pension scheme which the claimant elected to defer,

but only from the date on which it could be expected to be acquired were an application for it to be made.]

[F641(2A) This paragraph applies where a person [F642who has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit]

(a)is entitled to money purchase benefits under an occupational pension scheme or a personal pension scheme;

(b)fails to purchase an annuity with the funds available in that scheme; and

(c)either—

(i)defers in whole or in part the payment of any income which would have been payable to him by his pension fund holder, or

(ii)fails to take any necessary action to secure that the whole of any income which would be payable to him by his pension fund holder upon his applying for it, is so paid, or

(iii)income withdrawal is not available to him under that scheme.

(2AA) Where paragraph (2A) applies, the amount of any income foregone shall be treated as possessed by that person, but only from the date on which it could be expected to be acquired were an application for it to be made.]

[F643(2B) The amount of any income foregone in a case [F644where paragraph (2A)(c)(i) or (ii)] applies shall be the [F645rate of the annuity which may have been purchased with the fund] and shall be determined by the [F646Secretary of State] who shall take account of information provided by the pension fund holder in accordance with regulation 7(5) of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987.

(2C) The amount of any income foregone in a case [F647where paragraph (2A)(c)(iii)] applies shall be the income that the [F648person] could have received without purchasing an annuity had the funds held under the [F649relevant occupational or personal pension scheme] F650... been held [F651under a scheme] where income withdrawal was available and shall be determined in the manner specified in paragraph (2B).]

[F652(2CA) In paragraph (2A), “money purchase benefits” has the meaning it has in the Pension Schemes Act 1993.]

[F653(2D) [F654This paragraph refers to child benefit payable in accordance with regulation 2(1)(a)(ii) of the Child Benefit and Social Security (Fixing and Adjustment of Rates) Regulations 1976 (weekly rate for only, elder or eldest child of a lone parent) but only to the extent that it exceeds the amount specified in regulation 2(1)(a)(i) of those Regulations.]]

(3) Except in the case of a discretionary trust, or a trust derived from a payment made in consequence of a personal injury, any income which is due to be paid to the claimant but—

(a)has not been paid to him;

(b)is not a payment prescribed in regulation [F6558 or 9] of the Social Security (Payments on Account, Overpayment and Recovery) Regulations [F6551988] (duplication and prescribed payments or maintenance payments) and not made on or before the date prescribed in relation to it,

shall [F656except for any amount to which paragraph (3A) [F657, (3B) or (3C)] applies] be treated as possessed by the claimant.

[F658(3A) This paragraph applies to an amount which is due to be paid to the claimant under an occupational pension scheme but which is not paid because the trustees or managers of the scheme have suspended or ceased payments F659... due to an insufficiency of resources.]

[F658(3B) This paragraph applies to any amount by which a payment made to the claimant from an occupational pension scheme falls short of the payment to which he was due under the scheme where the shortfall arises because the trustees or managers of the scheme have insufficient resources available to them to meet in full the scheme’s liabilitiesF660....]

[F661(3C) This paragraph applies to any earnings which are due to an employed earner on the termination of his employment by reason of redundancy but which have not been paid to him.]

[F662(4) [F663Any payment of income, other than a payment of income specified in [F664paragraph (4ZA) or (4ZB)]], made—

(a)to a third party in respect of a single claimant or [F665in respect of a member of the family] [F665his partner] (but not a member of the third party’s family) shall be treated—

(i)in a case where that payment is derived from a payment of any benefit under the benefit Acts, [F666a payment from the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme,] a war disablement pension [F667, war widow’s pension [F668or war widower’s pension] or a pension payable to a person as a [F669widow, widower or surviving civil partner] under F670... any power of Her Majesty otherwise than under an enactment to make provision about pensions for or in respect of persons who have been disabled or have died in consequence of service as members of the armed forces of the Crown,] as possessed by that single claimant, if it is paid to him, [F671or by that member, if it is paid to any member of that family] [F671or by his partner, if it is paid to his partner];

[F672(ia)in a case where that payment is a payment of an occupational pension [F673, a pension or other periodical payment made under a personal pension scheme or a payment made by the Board of the Pension Protection Fund], as possessed by that single claimant or, as the case may be, by [F674that member] [F674the claimant’s partner];]

(ii)in any other case, as possessed by that single claimant [F675or by that member] [F675or his partner] to the extent that it is used for the food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel, rent F676... for which housing benefit is payable, [F677or]F678... any housing costs to the extent that they are met under regulations 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs) F679... F680... F681...), of that single claimant or, as the case may be, [F675of any member of that family] [F675of his partner] [F682, or is used for any [F683council tax] or water charges for which that claimant or [F675member is liable] [F675partner is liable];]

(b)[F684to a single claimant or a member of the family in respect of a third party (but not in respect of another member of that family) shall be treated as possessed by that single claimant or, as the case may be, that member of the family to the extent that it is kept or used by him or used by or on behalf of any member of the family;]

[F684to a single claimant or his partner in respect of a third party (but not in respect of another member of his family) shall be treated as possessed by that single claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, to the extent that it is kept or used by him or used by or on behalf of his partner;]

but, except where sub-paragraph (a)(i) applies and in the case of a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies, this paragraph shall not apply to any payment in kind [F685to the third party].]

[F686(4ZA) Paragraph (4) shall not apply in respect of a payment of income made—

(a)under [F687or by] the Macfarlane Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No.2) Trust, the Fund, the Eileen Trust [F688, MFET Limited] [F689, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation] [F690, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F691, an approved blood scheme] [F692, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund] [F693, the National Emergencies Trust] or the Independent Living [F694Fund (2006)];

(b)pursuant to section 19(1)(a) of the Coal Industry Act 1994 (concessionary coal); or

(c)pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 in respect of a person’s participation—

(i)in an employment programme specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(ii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996;

(ii)in a training scheme specified in regulation 75(1)(b)(ii) of those Regulations; or

[F695(iia)in the Intensive Activity Period specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(iv) of those RegulationsF696...; or]

(iii)in a qualifying course within the meaning specified in regulation 17A(7) of those Regulations.]

[F697(ca)in respect of a person’s participation in [F698a scheme prescribed in regulation 3 of the Jobseeker's Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013] or the Mandatory Work Activity Scheme; or]

[F699(d)under an occupational pension scheme [F700, in respect of a pension or other periodical payment made under a personal pension scheme or a payment made by the Board of the Pension Protection Fund] where—

(i)a bankruptcy order has been made in respect of the person in respect of whom the payment has been made or, in Scotland, the estate of that person is subject to sequestration or a judicial factor has been appointed on that person’s estate under section 41 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980;

(ii)the payment is made to the trustee in bankruptcy or any other person acting on behalf of the creditors; and

(iii)the person referred to in (i) and [F701any member of his family] [F701his partner (if any)] does not possess, or is not treated as possessing, any other income apart from that payment.]

[F702(4ZB) Paragraph (4) shall not apply in respect of [F703any of the following payments of income—]

(a)a Grenfell Tower payment;

(b)a child abuse payment;

(c)a Windrush payment.]

[F704(d)a Post Office compensation payment.]

[F705(4A) Where the claimant [F706resides in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital, or is temporarily absent from such a home or hospital], any payment made by a person other than the claimant or a member of his family in respect of some or all of the cost of maintaining the claimant [F707or a member of his family in that home shall be treated as possessed by the claimant or by that member of his family] [F707or his partner in that home [F708or hospital] shall be treated as possessed by the claimant or his partner].]

(5) Where a claimant's earnings are not ascertainable at the time of the determination of the claim or of any [F709revision or supersession the Secretary of State] shall treat the claimant as possessing such earnings as is reasonable in the circumstances of the case having regard to the number of hours worked and the earnings paid for comparable employment in the area.

[F710(5A) Where the amount of a subsistence allowance paid to a claimant in a benefit week is less than the amount of income-based jobseeker’s allowance that person would have received in that benefit week had it been payable to him, less 50p, he shall be treated as possessing the amount which is equal to the amount of income-based jobseeker’s allowance which he would have received in that week, less 50p.]

(6) [F711Subject to paragraph (6A),] where—

(a)a claimant performs a service for another person; and

(b)that person makes no payment of earnings or pays less than that paid for a comparable employment in the area,

the [F712Secretary of State] shall treat the claimant as possessing such earnings (if any) as is reasonable for that employment unless the claimant satisfies him that the means of that person are insufficient for him to pay or to pay more for the serviceF713... .

[F714(6A) Paragraph (6) shall not apply—

(a)to a claimant who is engaged by a charitable or voluntary organisation or who is a volunteer if the [F715Secretary of State] is satisfied in any of those cases that it is reasonable for him to provide the service free of charge;

[F716(b)in a case where the service is performed in connection with–

(i)the claimant’s participation in an employment or training programme in accordance with regulation 19(1)(q) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 [F717, other than where the service is performed in connection with the claimant’s participation in the Intensive Activity Period specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(iv) of those RegulationsF718...]; or

(ii)the claimant’s or the claimant’s partner’s participation in an employment or training programme as defined in regulation 19(3) of those Regulations for which a training allowance is not payable or, where such an allowance is payable, it is payable for the sole purpose of reimbursement of travelling or meal expenses to the person participating in that programme; or]

(c)to a claimant who is engaged in work experience whilst participating in—

(i)the New Deal for Lone Parents; or

(ii)a scheme which has been approved by the Secretary of State as supporting the objectives of the New Deal for Lone ParentsF719...[F720; or

(d)to a claimant who is participating in a work placement approved by the Secretary of State (or a person providing services to the Secretary of State) before the placement starts.]

[F720(6AA) In paragraph (6A)(d) “work placement” means practical work experience which is not undertaken in expectation of payment.]

F721(6B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F721(6C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

(7) Where a claimant is treated as possessing any income under any of [F722paragraphs (1) to (4A)] the foregoing provisions of this Part shall apply for the purposes of calculating the amount of that income as if a payment had actually been made and as if it were actual income which he does possess.

(8) Where a claimant is treated as possessing any earnings under paragraph (5) or (6) the foregoing provisions of this Part shall apply for the purposes of calculating the amount of those earnings as if a payment had actually been made and as if they were actual earnings which he does possess except that paragraph (3) of regulation 36 (calculation of net earnings of employed earners) shall not apply and his net earnings shall be calculated by taking into account the earnings which he is treated as possessing, less—

(a)an amount in respect of income tax equivalent to an amount calculated by applying to those earnings [F723, F724 ... the basic rate [F725, or in the case of a Scottish taxpayer, the Scottish basic rate,] of tax] in the year of assessment less only the [F726personal reliefs to which the claimant is entitled under Chapters 2, 3 and 3A of Part 3 of the Income Tax Act 2007 as are] appropriate to his circumstances; but, if the period over which those earnings are to be taken into account is less than a year, [F727the earnings to which the [F728[F729basic] rate] [F730, or the Scottish basic rate,] F731... of tax is to be applied and] the amount of the [F732personal reliefs] deductible under this paragraph shall be calculated on a pro rata basis;

[F733(b)where the weekly amount of those earnings equals or exceeds the lower earnings limit, an amount representing primary Class 1 contributions under the Contributions and Benefits Act, calculated by applying to those earnings the initial and main primary percentages in accordance with section 8(1) (a) and (b) of that Act; and]

(c)one-half of any sum payable by the claimant [F734in respect of a pay period] by way of a contribution towards an occupational or personal pension scheme.

[F735(8ZA) Paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) shall not apply in respect of any amount of income other than earnings, or earnings derived from employment as an employed earner, arising out of the [F736claimant participating as a service user].]

[F737(8A) In paragraphs (3A) and (3B) the expression “resources” has the same meaning as in the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 by virtue of section 66(1) of that Act.]

[F738(9) In paragraph (4) the expression “ordinary clothing or footwear” means clothing or footwear for normal daily use, but does not include school uniforms, or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities.]

Textual Amendments

F623Reg. 42(2)(d) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1803), regs. 1(1)(b), 37(a)

F624Reg. 42(2)(d) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(a)

F625Words in reg. 42(2)(e) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(5)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(b)

F626Words in reg. 42(2)(f) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(5)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(c)

F632Reg. 42(2)(ga) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(9)(a)

F635Reg. 42(2)(j) and word inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/563), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(2)(e)

F653Reg. 42(2D) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1803), regs. 1(1)(b), 37(b)

F654Reg. 42(2D) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(d)

F655Words in reg. 42(3)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/859), regs. 1(3), 3(2)

F659Words in reg. 42(3A) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/315), regs. 1(1)(c), 6(a)

F660Words in reg. 42(3B) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/315), regs. 1(1)(c), 6(b)

F665Words in reg. 42(4)(a) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(e)(i)

F671Words in reg. 42(4)(a)(i) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(e)(ii)

F674Words in reg. 42(4)(a)(ia) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(e)(iii)

F675Words in reg. 42(4)(a)(ii) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(e)(iv)

F677Word in reg. 42(4)(a)(ii) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(2)(a)

F678Words in reg. 42(4)(a)(ii) omitted (7.10.1991) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1559), regs. 1(1)(c), 8(a) (with reg. 1(2))

F679Words in reg. 42(4)(a)(ii) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(2)(b)

F681Words in reg. 42(4)(a)(ii) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(c) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 7

F684Reg. 42(4)(b) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(f)

F701Words in reg. 42(4ZA)(d)(iii) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(g)

F705Reg. 42(4A) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(3)

F707Words in reg. 42(4A) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 10(h)

F722Words in reg. 42(7) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/563), regs. 1(2), 13(1)(b)

F723Words in reg. 42(8)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 18(a)

F727Words in reg. 42(8)(a) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 18(b)

F731Words in reg. 42(8)(a) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 29

F733Reg. 42(8)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(4)

F734Words in reg. 42(8)(c) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 26

F735Reg. 42(8ZA) added (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(9)(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I41Reg. 42 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Notional earnings of seasonal workersE+W+S

F73943.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I42Reg. 43 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Modifications in respect of children and young personsE+W+S

44.[F740[F741(1) Any capital of a child or young person payable by instalments which are outstanding on–

(a)the first day in respect of which income support is payable or at the date of the determination of the claim, whichever is the earlier; or

(b)in the case of a supersession, the date of that supersession,

shall be treated as income if the aggregate of the instalments outstanding and the amount of that child’s or young person’s other capital calculated in accordance with Chapter VI of this Part in like manner as for the claimant would exceed £3,000.]

(2) In the case of a child or young person who is residing at an educational establishment at which he is receiving relevant education—

(a)any payment made to the educational establishment, in respect of that child's or young person's maintenance, by or on behalf of a person who is not a member of the family or by a member of the family out of funds contributed for that purpose by a person who is not a member of the family, shall be treated as income of that child or young person but it shall only be taken into account over periods during which that child or young person is present at that educational establishment; and

(b)if a payment has been so made, for any period in a benefit week in term-time during which that child or young person returns home, he shall be treated as possessing an amount of income in that week calculated by multiplying the amount of [F742personal allowance, any disabled child premium and any enhanced disability premium] applicable in respect of that child or young person by the number equal to the number of days in that week in which he was present at his educational establishment and dividing the product by seven; but this sub-paragraph shall not apply where the educational establishment is provided under section 8 of the Education Act 1944 F743 (duty of local authority to secure primary and secondary schools) by a local education authority or where the payment is made under section 49 or 50 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 F744 (power of education authority to assist persons).

(3) Where a child or young person—

(a)is resident at an educational establishment and he is wholly or partly maintained at that establishment by a local education authority under section 8 of the Education Act 1944; or

(b)is maintained at an educational establishment under section 49 or 50 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980,

he shall for each day he is present at that establishment be treated as possessing an amount of income equal to the sum obtained by dividing the amount of [F742personal allowance, any disabled child premium and any enhanced disability premium] applicable in respect of him by seven.

(4) Where the income of a child or young person who is a member of the claimant's family calculated in accordance with [F745Chapters I to V] of this Part exceeds the amount of the [F742personal allowance, any disabled child premium and any enhanced disability premium] applicable in respect of that child or young person, the excess shall not be treated as income of the claimant.

(5) Where the capital of a child or young person if calculated in accordance with Chapter VI of this Part in like manner as for the claimant, [F746except as provided in paragraph (1)], would exceed £3,000, any income of that child or young person shall not be treated as income of the claimant.

(6) In calculating the net earnings or net profit of a child or young person there shall be disregarded, (in addition to any sum which falls to be disregarded under paragraphs 11 to 13), any sum specified in paragraphs 14 and 15 of Schedule 8 (earnings to be disregarded).

(7) Any income of a child or young person which is to be disregarded under Schedule 9 (income other than earnings to be disregarded) shall be disregarded in such manner as to produce the result most favourable to the claimant.

(8) Where a child or young person is treated as possessing any income under paragraphs (2) and (3) the foregoing provisions of this Part shall apply for the purposes of calculating that income as if a payment had actually been made and as if it were actual income which he does possess.

[F747(9) For the purposes of this regulation, a child or young person shall not be treated as present at his educational establishment on any day if on that day he spends the night with the claimant or a member of his household.]]

Textual Amendments

F740Reg. 44 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 11

F742Words in reg. 44 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Enhanced Disability Premium) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2629), regs. 1(1)(c), 2(a)

F7431944 c. 31 section 8 was amended by the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (c. 40) section 3, the Education Act 1980 (c. 20) section 38 and Schedule 7 and by the Education Act 1981 (c. 60) section 2.

F7441980 c. 44 section 50 was amended by the Education (Scotland) Act 1981 (c. 58) section 2.

F745Words in reg. 44(4) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 15(3)

F746Words in reg. 44(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 15(4)

Commencement Information

I43Reg. 44 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

CHAPTER VIE+W+Scapital

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

[F748Capital limitE+W+S

45.  For the purposes of section 134(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act as it applies to income support (no entitlement to benefit if capital exceeds prescribed amount), the prescribed amount is £16,000.]

Textual Amendments

F748Reg. 45 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2465), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(4)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I44Reg. 45 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Calculation of capitalE+W+S

46.—(1) For the purposes of Part II of the Act as it applies to income support, the capital of a claimant to be taken into account shall, subject to paragraph (2), be the whole of his capital calculated in accordance with this Part and any income treated as capital under [F749regulation 48 (income treated as capital).]

(2) There shall be disregarded from the calculation of a claimant's capital under paragraph (1) any capital, where applicable, specified in Schedule 10.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I45Reg. 46 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Disregard of capital of child or young personE+W+S

47.  [F750The capital of a child or young person who is a member of the claimant's family shall not be treated as capital of the claimant.]

Textual Amendments

F750Reg. 47 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 11

Commencement Information

I46Reg. 47 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Income treated as capitalE+W+S

48.—(1) Any F751... bounty derived from employment to which paragraph 7 of Schedule 8 applies [F752and paid at intervals of at least one year] shall be treated as capital.

(2) Except in the case of an amount to which section 23(5) (a) (ii) of the Act (refund of tax in trade disputes cases) [F753or regulation 41(4) (capital treated as income)] applies, any amount by way of a refund of income tax deducted from profits or emoluments chargeable to income tax under Schedule D or E shall be treated as capital.

(3) Any holiday pay which is not earnings under regulation 35(1) (d) (earnings of employed earners) shall be treated as capital.

(4) Except any income derived from capital disregarded under paragraph 1, 2, 4, 6, [F75412 [F755, 25 to 28, 44 or 45]] of Schedule 10, any income derived from capital shall be treated as capital but only from the date it is normally due to be credited to the claimant's account.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), in the case of employment as an employed earner, any advance of earnings or any loan made by the claimant's employer shall be treated as capital.

[F756(6) Paragraph (5) shall not apply to a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 23A(b) (effect of return to work).]

(7) Any payment under section 30 of the Prison Act 1952 F757 (payments for discharged prisoners) or allowance under section 17 of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952 F758 (allowances to prisoners on discharge) shall be treated as capital.

[F759(8) [F760Any payment made by a local authority, which represents arrears of payments under—

(a)paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 (power of a local authority to make contributions to a person with whom a child lives as a result of a residence order); or

(b)section 34(6) or as the case may be, section 50 of the Children Act 1975 (payments towards maintenance for children),

shall be treated as capital.]

(8A) [F761Any payment made by an authority, as defined in Article 2 of the Children Order which represents arrears of payments under Article 15 of, and paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 to, that Order (contribution by an authority to child’s maintenance), shall be treated as capital.]]

[F762(9) Any charitable or voluntary payment which is not made or not due to be made at regular intervals, other than one to which paragraph (10) applies, shall be treated as capital.]

[F762(10) This paragraph applies to a payment—

(a)which is made to a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 23A(b) of the Act (effect of return to work) [F763or to a member of the family] [F763or to the partner] of such a person;

[F764(ab)which is a Grenfell Tower payment;]

[F765(ac)which is a child abuse payment;

(ad)which is a Windrush payment; F766...]

[F767(ae)which is a Post Office compensation payment;]

(b)[F768to which regulation 44(2) (modification in respect of children and young persons) applies; or]

(c)which is made under [F769or by] the Macfarlane Trust [F770, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust] [F771, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No. 2) Trust] [F772, the Fund] [F773, the Eileen Trust] [F774, MFET Limited ] [F775, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation] [F776, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F777, an approved blood scheme] [F778, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund] [F779, the National Emergencies Trust] [F780, the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme] or [F781the Independent Living [F782Fund (2006)]].]

F783(11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F784(12) Any arrears of subsistence allowance which are paid to a claimant as a lump sum shall be treated as capital.]

Textual Amendments

F755Words in reg. 48(4) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(4)

F7571952 c. 52; section 30 was substituted by section 66 (3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80).

F759Reg. 48(8)(8A) substituted for reg. 48(8) (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/563), regs. 1(2), 14(1)

F760Reg. 48(8) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 12(a)

F761Reg. 48(8A) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 12(a)

F763Words in reg. 48(10)(a) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 12(b)

F768Reg. 48(10)(b) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 12(a)

Commencement Information

I47Reg. 48 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F785Calculation of capital in the United KingdomE+W+S

49.  Capital which a claimant possesses in the United Kingdom shall be calculated at its current market or surrender value less—

(a)where there would be expenses attributable to sale, 10 per cent; and

(b)the amount of any incumbrance secured on it.]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I48Reg. 49 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Calculation of capital outside the United KingdomE+W+S

50.  Capital which a claimant possesses in a country outside the United Kingdom shall be calculated—

(a)in a case in which there is no prohibition in that country against the transfer to the United Kingdom of an amount equal to its current market or surrender value in that country, at that value;

(b)in a case where there is such a prohibition, at the price which it would realise if sold in the United Kingdom to a willing buyer,

less, where there would be expenses attributable to sale, 10 per cent and the amount of any incumbrance secured on it.

Commencement Information

I49Reg. 50 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Notional capitalE+W+S

51.—(1) A claimant shall be treated as possessing capital of which he has deprived himself for the purpose of securing entitlement to income support or increasing the amount of that benefit [F786except–

(a)where that capital is derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury and is placed on trust for the benefit of the claimant; or

(b)to the extent that the capital which he is treated as possessing is reduced in accordance with regulation 51A (diminishing notional capital rule)] [F787or]

[F788(c)any sum to which paragraph 44(2)(a) of Schedule 10 (capital to be disregarded) applies which is administered in the way referred to in paragraph 44(1)(a);

(d)any sum to which paragraph 45(a) of Schedule 10 refers.]

(2) Except in the case of—

(a)a discretionary trust;

(b)a trust derived from a payment made in consequence of a personal injury; or

(c)any loan which would be obtainable only if secured against capital disregarded under Schedule 10, [F789or

(d)a personal pension scheme F790...] [F791or]

[F792(da)an occupational pension scheme [F793or a payment made by the Board of the Pension Protection Fund] where the claimant [F794has not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit]; or]

[F795(e)any sum to which paragraph 44(2)(a) of Schedule 10 (capital to be disregarded) applies which is administered in a way referred to in paragraph 44(1)(a); or

(f)any sum to which paragraph 45(a) of Schedule 10 refers,]

any capital which would become available to the claimant upon application being made but which has not been acquired by him shall be treated as possessed by him but only from the date on which [F796it could be expected to be acquired were an application made]

[F797(3) [F798Any payment of capital, other than a payment of capital specified in [F799paragraph (3A) or (3B)]], made—

(a)to a third party in respect of a single claimant or [F800in respect of a member of the family] [F800his partner] (but not a member of the third party’s family) shall be treated—

(i)in a case where that payment is derived from a payment of any benefit under the benefit Acts, [F801a payment from the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme,] a war disablement pension[F802, war widow’s pension [F803or war widower’s pension] or a pension payable to a person as a [F804widow, widower or surviving civil partner] under F805... any power of Her Majesty otherwise than under an enactment to make provision about pensions for or in respect of persons who have been disabled or who have died in consequence of service as members of the armed forces of the Crown,] as possessed by that single claimant, if it is paid to him, [F806or by that member if it is paid to any member of the family] [F806or by his partner, if it is paid to his partner];

[F807(ia)in a case where that payment is a payment of an occupational pension [F808, a pension or other periodical payment made under a personal pension scheme or a payment made by the Board of the Pension Protection Fund], as possessed by that single claimant or, as the case may be, by [F809that member] [F809the claimant’s partner];]

(ii)in any other case, as possessed by that single claimant [F810or by that member] [F810or his partner] to the extent that it is used for the food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel, rent F811... for which housing benefit [F812is payable or] F813... any housing costs to the extent that they are met under regulation 17(1)(e) and 18(1)(f) (housing costs) F814..., of that single claimant or, as the case may be, [F810of any member of that family] [F810of his partner][F815, or is used for any [F816council tax] or water charges for which that claimant or [F810member is liable] [F810partner is liable]];

(b)[F817to a single claimant or a member of the family in respect of a third party (but not in respect of another member of the family) shall be treated as possessed by that single claimant or, as the case may be, that member of the family to the extent that it is kept or used by him or used by or on behalf of any member of the family.]]

[F817to a single claimant or his partner in respect of a third party (but not in respect of another member of his family) shall be treated as possessed by that single claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, to the extent that it is kept or used by him or used by or on behalf of his partner.]

[F818(3A) Paragraph (3) shall not apply in respect of a payment of capital made—

(a)under [F819or by] the Macfarlane Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No.2) Trust, the Fund, the Eileen Trust [F820, MFET Limited] [F821, the Independent Living [F822Fund (2006)] [F823, the Skipton Fund [F824, the Caxton Foundation] [F825, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F826, an approved blood scheme] [F827, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund] [F828, the National Emergencies Trust] [F829, the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme] or the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund]];

(b)pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 in respect of a person’s participation—

(i)in an employment programme specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(ii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996;

(ii)in a training scheme specified in regulation 75(1)(b)(ii) of those Regulations; or

[F830(iia)in the Intensive Activity Period specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(iv) of those RegulationsF831...; or]

(iii)in a qualifying course within the meaning specified in regulation 17A(7) of those Regulations.]

[F832(ba)in respect of a person’s participation in [F833a scheme prescribed in regulation 3 of the Jobseeker's Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013] or the Mandatory Work Activity Scheme;]

[F834(c)under an occupational pension scheme [F835, in respect of a pension or other periodical payment made under a personal pension scheme or a payment made by the Board of the Pension Protection Fund] where—

(i)a bankruptcy order has been made in respect of the person in respect of whom the payment has been made or, in Scotland, the estate of that person is subject to sequestration or a judicial factor has been appointed on that person’s estate under section 41 of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980;

(ii)the payment is made to the trustee in bankruptcy or any other person acting on behalf of the creditors; and

(iii)the person referred to in (i) and [F836any member of his family] [F836his partner (if any)] does not possess, or is not treated as possessing, any other income apart from that payment.]

[F837(3B) Paragraph (3) shall not apply in respect of [F838any of the following payments of capital—]

(a)a Grenfell Tower payment;

(b)a child abuse payment;

(c)a Windrush payment.]

[F839(d)a Post Office compensation payment;

(e)a vaccine damage payment.]

(4) Where a claimant stands in relation to a company in a position analogous to that of a sole owner or partner in the business of that company, he shall be treated as if he were such sole owner or partner and in such a case—

(a)the value of his holding in that company shall, notwithstanding regulation 46 (calculation of capital), be disregarded; and

(b)he shall, subject to paragraph (5), be treated as possessing an amount of capital equal to the value or, as the case may be, his share of the value of the capital of that company and the foregoing provisions of this Chapter shall apply for the purposes of calculating that amount as if it were actual capital which he does possess.

(5) For so long as the claimant undertakes activities in the course of the business of the company, the amount which he is treated as possessing under paragraph (4) shall be disregarded.

(6) Where a claimant is treated as possessing capital under any of paragraphs (1) to (4), the foregoing provisions of this Chapter shall apply for the purposes of calculating its amount as if it were actual capital which he does possess.

[F840(7) For the avoidance of doubt a claimant is to be treated as possessing capital under paragraph (1) only if the capital of which he has deprived himself is actual capital.]

[F841(8) In paragraph (3) the expression “ordinary clothing or footwear” means clothing or footwear for normal daily use, but does not include school uniforms, or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities.]

Textual Amendments

F800Words in reg. 51(3)(a) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 13(a)(i)

F802Words in reg. 51(3)(a)(i) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/65), regs. 1(1)(2), 9

F806Words in reg. 51(3)(a)(i) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 13(a)(ii)

F809Words in reg. 51(3)(a)(ia) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 13(a)(iii)

F810Words in reg. 51(3)(a)(ii) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 13(a)(iv)

F813Words in reg. 51(3)(a)(ii) omitted (7.10.1991) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1559), regs. 1(1)(c), 9(a) (with reg. 1(2))

F817Reg. 51(3)(b) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 13(b)

F836Words in reg. 51(3A)(c)(iii) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 13(c)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C48Reg. 51(3)(a)(ii) applied with modifications (1.4.1993) by The National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2977), regs. 1, 25(3)(b)

Commencement Information

I50Reg. 51 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F842Diminishing notional capital ruleE+W+S

51A.(1) Where a claimant is treated as possessing capital under regulation 51(1) (notional capital), the amount which he is treated as possessing–

(a)in the case of a week that is subsequent to–

(i)the relevant week in respect of which the conditions set out in paragraph (2) are satisfied, or

(ii)a week which follows that relevant week and which satisfies those conditions,

shall be reduced by an amount determined under paragraph (2);

(b)in the case of a week in respect of which paragraph (1)(a) does not apply but where–

(i)that week is a week subsequent to the relevant week, and

(ii)that relevant week is a week in which the condition in paragraph (3) is satisfied,

shall be reduced by the amount determined under paragraph (3).

(2) This paragraph applies to a benefit week or part week where the claimant satisfies the conditions that–

(a)he is in receipt of income support; and

(b)but for regulation 51(1), he would have received an additional amount of income support in that benefit week or, as the case may be, that part week;

and in such a case, the amount of the reduction for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) shall be equal to that additional amount.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) the condition is that the claimant would have been entitled to income support in the relevant week, but for regulation 51(1), and in such a case the amount of the reduction shall be equal to the aggregate of–

(a)the amount of income support to which the claimant would have been entitled in the relevant week but for regulation 51(1); and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph if the relevant week is a part-week that amount shall be determined by dividing the amount of income support to which he would have been so entitled by the number equal to the number of days in the part-week and multiplying the quotient by 7;

(b)the amount of housing benefit (if any) equal to the difference between his maximum housing benefit and the amount (if any) of housing benefit which he is awarded in respect of the benefit week, within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of [F843the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006] (interpretation), which includes the last day of the relevant week;

F844(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F845(d)the amount of council tax benefit (if any) equal to the difference between his maximum council tax benefit and the amount (if any) of council tax benefit which he is awarded in respect of the benefit week which includes the last day of the relevant week, and for this purpose “benefit week” [F846means a period of 7 consecutive days beginning on a Monday and ending on a Sunday].]

(4) The amount determined under paragraph (3) shall be re-determined under that paragraph if the claimant makes a further claim for income support and the conditions in paragraph (5) are satisfied, and in such a case–

(a)sub-paragraphs [F847(a) to (d)] of paragraph (3) shall apply as if for the words “relevant week” there were substituted the words “relevant subsequent week”; and

(b)subject to paragraph (6), the amount as re-determined shall have effect from the first week following the relevant subsequent week in question.

(5) The conditions are that–

(a)a further claim is made 26 or more weeks after–

(i)the date on which the claimant made a claim for income support in respect of which he was first treated as possessing the capital in question under regulation 51(1); or

(ii)in a case where there has been at least one re-determination in accordance with paragraph (4), the date on which he last made a claim for income support which resulted in the weekly amount being re-determined; or

(iii)the date on which he last ceased to be in receipt of income support; whichever last occurred; and

(b)the claimant would have been entitled to income support but for regulation 51(1).

(6) The amount as re-determined pursuant to paragraph (4) shall not have effect if it is less than the amount which applied in that case immediately before the re-determination and in such a case the higher amount shall continue to have effect.

(7) For the purpose of this regulation–

(a)“part-week” means a period to which sub-section (1A) of section 21 of the Act (amount etc. of income support) applies;

(b)“relevant week” means the benefit week or part-week in which the capital in question of which the claimant has deprived himself within the meaning of regulation 51(1)–

(i)was first taken into account for the purpose of determining his entitlement to income support; or

(ii)was taken into account on a subsequent occasion for the purpose of determining or re-determining his entitlement to income support on that subsequent occasion and that determination or re-determination resulted in his beginning to receive, or ceasing to receive, income support;

and where more than one benefit week or part-week is identified by reference to heads (i) and (ii) of this sub-paragraph the later or latest such benefit week or, as the case may be, the later or latest such part-week;

(c)“relevant subsequent week” means the benefit week or part-week which includes the day on which the further claim or, if more than one further claim has been made, the last such claim was made.]

Capital jointly heldE+W+S

52.  Except where a claimant possesses capital which is disregarded under regulation 51 (4) (notional capital), where a claimant and one or more persons are beneficially entitled in possession to any capital asset they shall be treated as if each of them were entitled in possession [F848to the whole beneficial interest therein in an equal share and the foregoing provisions of this Chapter shall apply for the purposes of calculating the amount of capital which the claimant is treated as possessing as if it were actual capital which the claimant does possess].

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I51Reg. 52 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Calculation of tariff income from capitalE+W+S

53.—(1) [F849Except where the circumstances prescribed in paragraph F850... (1B) apply to the claimant,] where the claimant's capital calculated in accordance with this Part exceeds [F851£6,000] it shall be treated as equivalent to a weekly income of £1 for each complete £250 in excess of [F851£6,000] but not exceeding [F852£16,000].

F853(1ZA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F854(1A) Where the circumstances prescribed in paragraph (1B) apply to the claimant and that claimant’s capital calculated in accordance with this Part exceeds £10,000, it shall be treated as equivalent to a weekly income of £1 for each complete £250 in excess of £10,000 but not exceeding £16,000.

(1B) For the purposes of paragraph (1A)F855..., the prescribed circumstances are that the claimant lives permanently in—

[F856(a)a care home or an independent hospital;]

[F856(b)an Abbeyfield Home;]

(c)accommodation provided under section 3 of, and Part II of the Schedule to, the Polish Resettlement Act 1947 (provision of accommodation in camps) where the claimant requires personal care [F857by reason of old age, disablement, past or present dependence on alcohol or drugs, past or present mental disorder or a terminal illness and the care is provided in the home].

F858(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(1C) For the purposes of paragraph (1B), a claimant shall be treated as living permanently in such home [F859, hospital] or accommodation where he is absent—

(a)from a home[F859, hospital] or accommodation referred to in sub-paragraph [F860(a) [F861or (b)]] of paragraph (1B)—

(i)F862... in the case of a person over pensionable age, for a period not exceeding 52 weeks, and

(ii)in any other case, for a period not exceeding 13 weeks;

(b)from accommodation referred to in sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1B), where the claimant, with the agreement of the manager of the accommodation, intends to return to the accommodation in due course.]

(2) Notwithstanding [F863paragraphs (1)F864... and (lA)], where any part of the excess is not a complete £250 that part shall be treated as equivalent to a weekly income of £1.

(3) For the purposes of [F863paragraphs (1)F864... and (lA)], capital includes any income treated as capital under regulations F865... 48 and 60 (F865... income treated as capital and liable relative payments treated as capital).

F866(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F850Words in reg. 53(1) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2465), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(6)(a)(i)

F851Word in reg. 53(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2465), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(6)(a)(ii)

F852Word in reg. 53(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2465), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(6)(a)(iii)

F853Reg. 53(1ZA) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2465), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(6)(b)

F855Words in reg. 53(1B) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2465), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(6)(c)

F860Words in reg. 53(1C)(a) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/65), regs. 1(1)(2), 8(b)

F863Words in reg. 53(2)(3) substituted (8.4.1996) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/462), regs. 1(2), 12(1)(b)(iii)

F864Word in reg. 53(2)(3) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2465), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(6)(d)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I52Reg. 53 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

CHAPTER VIIE+W+S[F867F868... liable relative payments]

Textual Amendments

F867Pt. V Ch. VII heading substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(5)

F868Words in Pt. V Ch. VII heading omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(6)

InterpretationE+W+S

54.  In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires—

F869...

claimant” includes a young claimant;

[F870“claimant’s family” shall be construed in accordance with section 137 of the contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (interpretation of part 7 and supplementary provisions);]

[F870“housing costs” means, those costs which may be met under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs);]

liable relative” means—

(a)

a spouse [F871, former spouse, civil partner or former civil partner] of a claimant or of a member of the claimant's family;

(b)

a parent of a child or young person who is a member of the claimant's family or of a young claimant;

(c)

a person who has not been adjudged to be the father of a child or young person who is a member of the claimant's family or of a young claimant where that person is contributing towards the maintenance of that child, young person or young claimant and by reason of that contribution he may reasonably be treated as the father of that child, young person or young claimant;

(d)

a person liable to maintain another person [F872in the circumstances set out in section 78(6)(c) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (liability to maintain another person)] where the latter is the claimant or a member of the claimant's family,

and, in this definition, a reference to a child's, young person's or young claimant's parent includes any person in relation to whom the child, young person or young claimant was treated as a child or a member of the family;

[F870“ordinary clothing and footwear” means clothing and footwear for normal daily use but does not include school uniforms;]

payment” means a periodical payment or any other payment made by or derived from a liable relative F873... but it does not include any payment—

(a)

arising from a disposition of property made in contemplation of, or as a consequence of—

(i)

an agreement to separate; or

(ii)

any proceedings for judicial separation, divorce or nullity of marriage; [F874or]

(iii)

[F875any proceedings for separation, dissolution or nullity in relation to a civil partnership;]

(b)

made after the death of the liable relative;

(c)

made by way of a gift but not in aggregate or otherwise exceeding £250 in the period of 52 weeks beginning with the date on which the payment, or if there is more than one such payment the first payment, is made; and, in the case of a claimant who continues to be in receipt of income support at the end of the period of 52 weeks, this provision shall continue to apply thereafter with the modification that any subsequent period of 52 weeks shall begin with the first day of the benefit week in which the first payment is made after the end of the previous period of 52 weeks;

(d)

[F876to which regulation 44(2) applies (modifications in respect of children and young persons);]

(e)

[F877made to a third party, or in respect of a third party, unless the payment is—

(i)

in relation to the claimant or the claimant’s [F878partner or is made or derived from a person falling within sub-paragraph (d) of the definition of liable relative]; and

(ii)

F879... in respect of food, ordinary clothing or footwear, fuel, [F880rent for which housing benefit is payable, housing costs to the extent that they are met under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs),] council tax or water charges;]

(f)

in kind;

(g)

to, or in respect of, a child or young person who is to be treated as not being a member of the claimant's household under regulation 16 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the same household);

(h)

which is not a periodical payment, to the extent that any amount of that payment—

(i)

has already been taken into account under this Part by virtue of a previous claim or determination; or

(ii)

has been recovered under section 27(1) of the Act (prevention of duplication of payments) or is currently being recovered; or

(iii)

at the time the determination is made, has been used by the claimant except where he has deprived himself of that amount for the purpose of securing entitlement to income support or increasing the amount of that benefit;

(i)

[F881to which paragraph 73 of Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) applies.]

periodical payment” means—

(a)

a payment which is made or is due to be made at regular intervals F882...;

(b)

in a case where the liable relative has established a pattern of making payments at regular intervals, any such payment;

(c)

any payment F883[F884... that does not exceed] the amount of income support payable had that payment not been made;

(d)

any payment representing a commutation of payments to which sub-paragraphs (a) or (b) of this definition applies whether made in arrears or in advance,

but does not include a payment due to be made before the first benefit week pursuant to the claim which is not so made;

young claimant ” means a person aged 16 or over but under [F88520] who makes a claim for income support.

Textual Amendments

F869Words in reg. 54 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(10)(a)

F870Words in reg. 54 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(a)

F872Words in reg. 54 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(b)

F873Words in reg. 54 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(c)(i)

F876Words in reg. 54 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 14

F877Words in reg. 54 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(c)(ii)

F878Words in reg. 54 substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(10)(b)(i)

F881Words in reg. 54 added (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(10)(b)(ii)

F882Words in reg. 54 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(d)(i)

F883Words in reg. 54 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(10)(c)

F884Words in reg. 54 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(d)(ii)

Commencement Information

I53Reg. 54 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Treatment of F886... liable relative paymentsE+W+S

55.  [F887Subject to regulation 55A] F888... a payment shall—

(a)to the extent that it is not a payment of income, be treated as income;

(b)be taken into account in accordance with the following provisions of this Chapter.

Textual Amendments

F886Words in reg. 55 heading omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(5)

F888Words in reg. 55 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(11)

Commencement Information

I54Reg. 55 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F889Disregard of payments treated as not relevant incomeE+W+S

55A.  Where the Secretary of State treats any payment as not being relevant income for the purposes of section 74A of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (payment of benefit where maintenance payments collected by Secretary of State), that payment shall be disregarded in calculating a claimant’s income.]

Period over which periodical payments are to be taken into accountE+W+S

56.—(1) The period over which a periodical payment is to be taken into account shall be—

(a)in a case where the payment is made at regular intervals, a period equal to the length of that interval;

(b)in a case where the payment is due to be made at regular intervals but is not so made, such number of weeks as is equal to the number (and any fraction shall be treated as a corresponding fraction of a week) obtained by dividing the amount of that payment by the weekly amount of that periodical payment as calculated in accordance with regulation 58(4) (calculation of the weekly amount of a liable relative payment);

(c)in any other case, a period equal to a week.

(2) The period under paragraph (1) shall begin on the date on which the payment is treated as paid under regulation 59 (date on which a liable relative payment is to be treated as paid).

Commencement Information

I55Reg. 56 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F890Period over which payments other than periodical payments are to be taken into accountE+W+S

57.(1) The period over which a payment other than a periodical payment (a “non-periodical payment”) is to be taken account shall be determined as follows.

(2) Except in a case where paragraph (4) applies, the number of weeks over which a non-periodical payment is to be taken into account shall be equal to the number obtained by dividing that payment by the amount referred to in paragraph (3).

(3) The amount is the aggregate of £2 and—

(a)the amount of income support that would be payable had no payment been made, F891...

F891(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) This paragraph applies in a case where a liable relative makes a periodical payment and a non-periodical payment concurrently and the weekly amount of the periodical payment (as calculated in accordance with regulation 58) is less than B.

(5) In a case where paragraph (4) applies, the non-periodical payment shall, subject to paragraphs (6) and (7), be taken into account over a period of the number of weeks equal to the number obtained by applying the formula—

(6) If the liable relative ceases to make periodical payments, the balance (if any) of the non-periodical payment shall be taken into account over the number of weeks equal to the number obtained by dividing that balance by the amount referred to in paragraph (3).

(7) If the amount of any subsequent periodical payment varies, the balance (if any) of the non-periodical payment shall be taken into account over a period of the number of weeks equal to the number obtained by applying the formula—

(8) The period under paragraph (2) or (4) shall begin on the date on which the payment is treated as paid under regulation 59 (date on which a liable relative payment is treated as paid) and the period under paragraph (6) and (7) shall begin on the first day of the benefit week in which the cessation or variation of the periodical payment occurred.

(9) Any fraction which arises by applying a calculation or formula referred to in this regulation shall be treated as a corresponding fraction of a week.

(10) In paragraphs (4) to (7)—

A

=

the amount of the non-periodical payment;

B

=

the aggregate of £2 and the amount of income support that would be payable had the periodical payment not been made F892...;

C

=

the weekly amount of the periodical payment;

D

=

the balance (if any) of the non-periodical payment;

E

=

the weekly amount of any subsequent periodical payment.]

Textual Amendments

F890Reg. 57 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(8)

F891Reg. 57(3)(b) and word omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(12)(a)

F892Words in reg. 57(10) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(12)(b)

Calculation of the weekly amount of a F893... liable relative paymentE+W+S

58.—(1) Where a periodical payment is made or is due to be made at intervals of one week, the weekly amount shall be the amount of that payment.

(2) Where a periodical payment is made or is due to be made at intervals greater than one week and those intervals are monthly, the weekly amount shall be determined by multiplying the amount of the payment by 12 and dividing the product by 52.

(3) Where a periodical payment is made or is due to be made at intervals and those intervals are neither weekly nor monthly, the weekly amount shall be determined by dividing that payment by the number equal to the number of weeks (including any part of a week) in that interval.

(4) Where a payment is made and that payment represents a commutation of periodical payments whether in arrears or in advance, the weekly amount shall be the weekly amount of the individual periodical payments so commutated as calculated under paragraphs (1) to (3) as is appropriate.

(5) The weekly amount of a payment to which regulation 57 applies (period over which payments other than periodical payments are to be taken into account) shall be equal to the amount of the divisor used in calculating the period over which the payment or, as the case may be, the balance is to be taken into account.

Textual Amendments

F893Words in reg. 58 heading omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(5)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I56Reg. 58 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Date on which a F894... liable relative payment is to be treated as paidE+W+S

59.—(1) A periodical payment is to be treated as paid—

(a)in the case of a payment which is due to be made before the first benefit week pursuant to the claim, on the day in the week in which it is due to be paid which corresponds to the first day of the benefit week;

(b)in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week in which it is due to be paid unless, having regard to the manner in which income support is due to be paid in the particular case, it would be more practicable to treat it as paid on the first day of a subsequent benefit week.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), any other payment shall be treated as paid—

(a)in the case of a payment which is made before the first benefit week pursuant to the claim, on the day in the week in which it is paid which corresponds to the first day of the benefit week;

(b)in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week in which it is paid unless, having regard to the manner in which income support is due to be paid in the particular case, it would be more practicable to treat it as paid on the first day of a subsequent benefit week.

(3) Any other payment paid on a date which falls within the period in respect of which a previous payment is taken into account, not being a periodical payment, is to be treated as paid on the first day following the end of that period.

Textual Amendments

F894Words in reg. 59 heading omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(5)

Commencement Information

I57Reg. 59 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Liable relative payments to be treated as capitalE+W+S

F89560.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F895Reg. 60 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(b)

[F896CHAPTER VIIAE+W+SCHILD SUPPORT

InterpretationE+W+S

F89760A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F897Pt. V Ch. 7A omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(c)

Treatment of child support maintenanceE+W+S

F89760B.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F897Pt. V Ch. 7A omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(c)

Calculation of the weekly amount of payments of child support maintenance E+W+S

F89760C.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F897Pt. V Ch. 7A omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(c)

Date on which child support maintenance is to be treated as paidE+W+S

F89760D.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

Textual Amendments

F897Pt. V Ch. 7A omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Child Maintenance Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2111), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(c)

[F898Disregard of payments treated as not relevant incomeE+W+S

F89760E.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

CHAPTER VIIIE+W+S[F899STUDENTS]

InterpretationE+W+S

61.[F900(1)] In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires—

[F901“academic year” means the period of twelve months beginning on 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st September according to whether the course in question begins in the winter, the spring, the summer or the autumn respectively but if students are required to begin attending the course during August or September and to continue attending through the autumn, the academic year of the course shall be considered to begin in the autumn rather than the summer;]

[F902“access funds" means—

(a)

grants made under section [F90368] of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 [F904or section 74 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017] F905... [F906for the purpose of providing funds on a discretionary basis to be paid to students];

(b)

grants made under sections 73(a) and (c) and 74(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980; F907...

(c)

grants made under Article 30 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1993, or grants, loans or other payments made under Article 5 of the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 in each case being grants, or grants, loans or other payments as the case may be, made for the purpose of assisting students in financial difficulties;] F908...

(d)

[F909discretionary payments, known as “learner support funds”, which are made available to students in further education by institutions out of funds provided by the [F910[F911Secretary of State under section 14 of the Education Act 2002] or F912... under sections 100 and 101 of [F913the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009]];] [F914or

(e)

Financial Contingency Funds made available by the [F915Welsh Ministers];]

[F916“college of further education" means a college of further education within the meaning of Part I of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992;]

[F917contribution” means—

(a)

any contribution in respect of the income of a student or any person which the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers or an education authority takes into account in ascertaining the amount of a student's grant or student loan; or

(b)

any sums, which in determining the amount of a student's allowance or bursary in Scotland under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980, the Scottish Ministers or education authority takes into account being sums which the Scottish Ministers or education authority consider that it is reasonable for the following persons to contribute towards the holder's expenses—

(i)

the holder of the allowance or bursary;

(ii)

the holder's parents;

(iii)

the holder's parent's spouse, civil partner or a person ordinarily living with the holder's parent as if he or she were the spouse or civil partner of that parent; or

(iv)

the holder's spouse or civil partner;]

[F918“course of advanced education" means—

(a)

a course leading to a postgraduate degree or comparable qualification, a first degree or comparable qualification, a diploma of higher education or a higher national diploma; or

(b)

any other course which is of a standard above advanced GNVQ or equivalent, including a course which is of a standard above a general certificate of education (advanced level), [F919a Scottish national qualification (higher or advanced higher)];]

covenant income” means the income F920... payable to a student under a Deed of Covenant by a person whose income is, or is likely to be, taken into account in assessing the student's grant or award;

education authority” means a government department, [F921a local authority as defined in section 579 of the Education Act 1996 (interpretation)], [F922a local education authority as defined in section 123 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973], an education and library board established under Article 3 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986F923, any body which is a research council for the purposes of the Science and Technology Act 1965F924 or any analogous government department, authority, board or body, of the Channel Islands, Isle of Man or any other country outside Great Britain.

F925...

[F916“full-time course of advanced education" means a course of advanced education which isF926...—

(a)

F927... a full-time course of study which is not funded in whole or in part by [F928the [F929[F930Secretary of State under section 14 of the Education Act 2002] [F931or under section 100 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009]] or by the [F932Welsh Ministers]] or a full-time course of study which is not funded in whole or in part by the [F933Scottish Ministers] at a college of further education or a full-time course of study which is a course of higher education and is funded in whole or in part by the [F933Scottish Ministers];

(b)

[F934a course of study which is funded in whole or in part by the [F929[F930Secretary of State under section 14 of the Education Act 2002] [F935or under section 100 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009]] or by the [F932Welsh Ministers] if it involves more than 16 guided learning hours per week for the student in question, according to the number of guided learning hours per week for that student set out—

(i)

[F936in the case of a course funded by the [F930Secretary of State F937...], in the student’s learning agreement signed on behalf of the establishment which is funded by [F938the Secretary of State] for the delivery of that course; or]

(ii)

in the case of a course funded by the [F932Welsh Ministers], in a document signed on behalf of the establishment which is funded by that Council for the delivery of that course; or]

(c)

F939... a course of study (not being higher education) which is funded in whole or in part by the [F933Scottish Ministers] at a college of further education if it involves—

(i)

more than 16 hours per week of classroom-based or workshop-based programmed learning under the direct guidance of teaching staff according to the number of hours set out in a document signed on behalf of the college; or

(ii)

16 hours or less per week of classroom-based or workshop-based programmed learning under the direct guidance of teaching staff and it involves additional hours using structured learning packages supported by the teaching staff where the combined total of hours exceeds 21 per week, according to the number of hours set out in a document signed on behalf of the college;]

[F916“full-time course of study" means a full-time course of study which—

(a)

is not funded in whole or in part by [F940the [F941[F942Secretary of State under section 14 of the Education Act 2002] [F943or under section 100 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009]] or by the [F944Welsh Ministers]] or a full-time course of study which is not funded in whole or in part by the [F945Scottish Ministers] at a college of further education or a full-time course of study which is a course of higher education and is funded in whole or in part by the [F945Scottish Ministers];

(b)

[F946a course of study which is funded in whole or in part by the [F941[F942Secretary of State under section 14 of the Education Act 2002] [F947or under section 100 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009]] or by the [F944Welsh Ministers] if it involves more than 16 guided learning hours per week for the student in question, according to the number of guided learning hours per week for that student set out—

(i)

[F948in the case of a course funded by the [F942Secretary of State F949...], in the student’s learning agreement signed on behalf of the establishment which is funded by [F950the Secretary of State] for the delivery of that course; or]

(ii)

in the case of a course funded by the [F944Welsh Ministers], in a document signed on behalf of the establishment which is funded by that Council for the delivery of that course; or]

(c)

is not higher education and is funded in whole or in part by the [F945Scottish Ministers] at a college of further education if it involves—

(i)

more than 16 hours per week of classroom-based or workshop-based programmed learning under the direct guidance of teaching staff according to the number of hours set out in a document signed on behalf of the college; or

(ii)

16 hours or less per week of classroom-based or workshop-based programmed learning under the direct guidance of teaching staff and it involves additional hours using structured learning packages supported by the teaching staff where the combined total of hours exceeds 21 per week, according to the number of hours set out in a document signed on behalf of the college;]

[F951“full-time student" [F952means a person who is not a qualifying young person or child within the meaning of section 142 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (child and qualifying young person) and] who is—

(a)

aged less than 19 and is attending or undertaking a full-time course of advanced education;

(b)

aged 19 or over but under pensionable age and is attending or undertaking a full-time course of study at an educational establishment; or

(c)

on a sandwich course;]

[F953“grant" (except in the definition of “access funds") means any kind of educational grant or award and includes any scholarship, studentship, exhibition, allowance or bursary but does not include a payment from access funds [F954or any payment to which paragraph 11 of Schedule 9 or paragraph 63 of Schedule 10 applies];]

grant income” means—

(a)

any income by way of a grant;

(b)

in the case of a student other than one to whom sub-paragraph (c) refers, any contribution which has been assessed whether or not it has been paid;

(c)

in the case of a student to whom [F955paragraph 1, 2, F956... 11] [F957, F956... or 15A of Schedule 1B applies (lone parent, disabled student or persons in education)], any contribution which has been assessed and which has been paid;

and any such contribution which is paid by way of a covenant shall be treated as part of the student's grant income.

[F916“higher education" means higher education within the meaning of Part II of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992;]

[F958“last day of the course” means the date on which the last day of the final academic term falls in respect of the course in which the student is enrolled;]

period of study” means—

(a)

in the case of a course of study for one year or less, the period beginning with the start of the course [F959and ending with the last day of the course];

(b)

in the case of a course of study for more than one year, in the first or, as the case may be, any subsequent year of the course, [F960other than the final year of the course,] the period beginning with the start of the course or, as the case may be, that year's start and ending with either—

(i)

[F961the day before the start of the next year of the course in a case where the student’s grant or loan is assessed at a rate appropriate to his studying throughout the year or, if he does not have a grant or loan, where a loan would have been assessed at such a rate had he had one; or]

(ii)

in any other case the day before the start of the normal summer vacation appropriate to his course;

(c)

[F962in the final year of a course of study of more than one year, the period beginning with that year’s start and ending with the last day of the course;]

[F963“periods of experience” means periods of work experience which form part of a sandwich course;]

[F964“postgraduate loan” means a loan to a student undertaking a postgraduate master’s degree course or a postgraduate doctoral degree course pursuant to regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998;]

[F965“sandwich course” has the meaning prescribed in regulation 2(9) of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2008, regulation 4(2) of the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2007, regulation 2(8) of the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007;]

[F918“standard maintenance grant" means—]

(a)

except where paragraph (b) or (c) applies, in the case of a student attending [F966or undertaking] a course of study at the University of London or an establishment within the area comprising the City of London and the Metropolitan Police District, the amount specified for the time being in paragraph 2(2)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1995 (“the 1995 Regulations") for such a student;

(b)

except where paragraph (c) applies, in the case of a student residing at his parent’s home, the amount specified in paragraph 3(2) thereof;

(c)

[F967in the case of a student receiving an allowance or bursary under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980, the amount of money specified as the “standard maintenance allowance” for the relevant year appropriate for the student set out in the Student Support in Scotland Guide issued by the Student Awards Agency for Scotland, or its nearest equivalent in the case of a bursary provided by a college of further education or a local education authorityF968...;]

(d)

in any other case, the amount specified in paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Regulations other than in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) thereof;

[F969“student" means a person, other than a person in receipt of a training allowance, who is attending or undertaking a course of study at an educational establishment;]

[F970“student loan" means a loan towards a student’s maintenance pursuant to any regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998, section 73 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 or Article 3 of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 [F971and shall include, in Scotland, a young student’s bursary paid under regulation 4(1)(c) of the Students’ Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 1999]];

F972...

[F973(2) For the purposes of the definition of “full-time student" in paragraph (1), a person shall be regarded as attending or, as the case may be, undertaking a full-time course of study, a full-time course of advanced education or as being on a sandwich course—

(a)subject to paragraph (3), in the case of a person attending or undertaking a part of a modular course which would be a full-time course of study for the purposes of this Part, for the period beginning on the day on which that part of the course starts and ending—

(i)on the last day on which he is registered with the educational establishment as attending or undertaking that part as a full-time course of study; or

(ii)on such earlier date (if any) as he finally abandons the course or is dismissed from it;

(b)in any other case, throughout the period beginning on the date on which he starts attending or undertaking the course and ending on the last day of the course or on such earlier date (if any) as he finally abandons it or is dismissed from it.

(3) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2), the period referred to in that sub-paragraph shall include—

(a)where a person has failed examinations or has failed to successfully complete a module relating to a period when he was attending or undertaking a part of the course as a full-time course of study, any period in respect of which he attends or undertakes the course for the purpose of retaking those examinations or that module;

(b)any period of vacation within the period specified in that paragraph or immediately following that period except where the person has registered with the educational establishment to attend or undertake the final module in the course and the vacation immediately follows the last day on which he is required to attend or undertake the course.

(4) In paragraph (2), “modular course" means a course of study which consists of two or more modules, the successful completion of a specified number of which is required before a person is considered by the educational establishment to have completed the course.]

Textual Amendments

F902Words in reg. 61(1) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 2(2)

F918Words in reg. 61 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes and Social Fund (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1944), regs. 1(1)(a), 6(8)(a) (with reg. 13)

F919Words in reg. 61(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Students and Income-related Benefits) Amendment Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1708), regs. 1(1)(b), 5(1)(a)

F920Words in reg. 61 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits Schemes and Social Fund (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1944), regs. 1(1)(a), 6(8)(c)(i) (with reg. 13)

F953Words in reg. 61(1) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 2(2)

F954Words in reg. 61(1) added (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Students and Income-related Benefits) Amendment Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1708), regs. 1(1)(b), 5(1)(b)

F955Words in reg. 61 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2197), regs. 1(2), 5(5)

F961Words in reg. 61(1) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 2(3)

F970Words in reg. 61 substituted (1.8.1999, 30.8.1999 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security Amendment (Students) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1935), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(2)(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I58Reg. 61 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Calculation of grant incomeE+W+S

62.—(1) The amount of a student's grant income to be taken into account shall, subject to paragraphs [F974(2) and (2A)], be the whole of his grant income.

(2) There shall be disregarded from the amount of a student's grant income any payment—

(a)intended to meet tuition fees or examination fees;

F975(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)intended to meet additional expenditure incurred by a disabled student in respect of his attendance on a course;

(d)intended to meet additional expenditure connected with term time residential study away from the student's educational establishment;

(e)on account of the student maintaining a home at a place other than that at which he resides while attending his course but only to the extent that his rent F976... is not met by housing benefit;

(f)on account of any other person but only if that person is residing outside of the United Kingdom and there is no applicable amount in respect of him;

(g)intended to meet the cost of books and equipmentF977... F978...;

(h)intended to meet travel expenses incurred as a result of his attendance on the course.

[F979(i)intended for the maintenance F980... of a child dependant.]

[F981(j)intended for the child care costs of a child dependant.]

[F982(k)of higher education bursary for care leavers made under Part III of the Children Act 1989 [F983or Part 6 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014].]

[F984(2A) Where a student does not have a student loan [F985or a postgraduate F986... loan] and is not treated as possessing [F987a student loan or a postgraduate F986... loan], there shall be excluded from the student’s grant income—

(a)the sum of [F988£303] per academic year in respect of travel costs; and

[F989(b) the sum of [F990£390] per academic year towards the costs of books and equipment,]

whether or not any such costs are incurred.]

F991(2B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) [F992Subject to paragraph (3B), a student’s grant income except any amount intended for the maintenance of [F993adult] dependants under Part III of Schedule 2 to the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1999 [F994or intended for an older student under Part IV of that Schedule]], shall be apportioned—

(a)subject to paragraph (4), in a case where it is attributable to the period of study, equally between the weeks [F995in the period beginning with the benefit week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of the period of study and ending with the benefit week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of the period of study];

(b)in any other case, equally between the weeks in the period [F996beginning with the benefit week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of the period for which it is payable and ending with the benefit week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of the period for which it is payable].

[F997(3A) [F998Any grant in respect of [F999dependants] [F999an adult dependant] paid under section 63(6) of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (grants in respect of the provision of instruction to officers of hospital authorities) and] any amount intended for the maintenance of [F999dependants] [F999an adult dependant] F1000... under the provisions referred to in paragraph (3) shall be apportioned equally over a period of 52 weeks or, if there are 53 benefit weeks (including part-weeks) in the year, 53.]

[F1001(3B) [F1002In a case where a student is in receipt of a student loan or where he could have acquired a student loan by taking reasonable steps but had not done so,] any amount intended for the maintenance of [F1003dependants] [F1003an adult dependant] under provisions other than those referred to in paragraph (3) shall be apportioned over the same period as the student’s loan is apportioned or[F1004, as the case may be, would have been apportioned].]

(4) In the case of a student on a sandwich course, any periods of experience within the period of study shall be excluded and the student's grant income shall be apportioned equally between [F1005the weeks in the period beginning with the benefit week, the first day of which immediately follows the last day of the period of experience and ending with the benefit week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of the period of study].

Textual Amendments

F974Words in reg. 62(1) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 2(4)(a)

F977Words in reg. 62(2)(g) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits Schemes and Social Fund (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1944), regs. 1(1)(a), 6(9)(b) (with reg. 13)

F978Words in reg. 62(2)(g) omitted (1.8.1999, 30.8.1999 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of The Social Security Amendment (Students) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1935), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(3)(a)

F979Reg. 62(2)(i) added (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 16(a)

F980Words in reg. 62(2)(i) deleted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Students and Income-related Benefits) Amendment Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1708), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(3)(a)

F981Reg. 62(2)(j) added (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Students and Income-related Benefits) Amendment Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1708), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(3)(b)

F984Reg. 62(2A) substituted (1.8.1999, 30.8.1999 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security Amendment (Students) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1935), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(3)(b)

F988Word in reg. 62(2A)(a) substituted (for specified purposes and, 1.9.2009 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1575), reg. 1(3), reg. 2(2)(4)(a)

F990Word in reg. 62(2A)(b) substituted (for specified purposes and, 1.9.2009 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1575), reg. 1(3), reg. 2(3)(4)(a)

F991Reg. 62(2B) omitted (1.8.2006 for specified purposes and, 1.9.2006 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of The Social Security (Students and Income-related Benefits) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1752), regs. 1(2), 4(3)

F992Words in reg. 62(3) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 2(4)(d)

F993Word in reg. 62(3) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 16(c)

F994Words in reg. 62(3) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 16(c)

F999Words in reg. 62(3A) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 16(d)

F1001Reg. 62(3B) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 2(4)(e)

F1003Words in reg. 62(3B) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 16(e)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C70Reg. 62 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2017) by W.S.I. 2007/1104 (as amended (W.) by The National Health Service (Welfare Reform Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/340), regs. 1(1), 5(4) (with reg. 8))

Commencement Information

I59Reg. 62 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Calculation of covenant income where a contribution is assessedE+W+S

63.—(1) Where a student is in receipt of income by way of a grant during a period of study and a contribution has been assessed, the amount of his covenant income to be taken into account for that period and any summer vacation immediately following shall be the whole amount of his covenant income less, subject to paragraph (3), the amount of the contribution.

(2) The weekly amount of the student's covenant income shall be determined—

(a)by dividing the amount of income which falls to be taken into account under paragraph (1) by 52 or, if there are 53 benefit weeks (including part weeks) in the year, 53; and

(b)by disregarding from the resulting amount, £5.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the contribution shall be treated as increased by the amount, if any, by which the amount excluded under [F1006regulation 62(2)(h) (calculation of grant income) falls short of the amount for the time being specified in paragraph 7(4)(i) of Schedule 2 to the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1991 (travel expenditure).]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I60Reg. 63 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Covenant income where no grant income or no contribution is assessedE+W+S

64.—(1) Where a student is not in receipt of income by way of a grant the amount of his covenant income shall be calculated as follows—

(a)any sums intended for any expenditure specified in regulation 62(2)(a) to (f), (calculation of grant income) necessary as a result of his attendance on the course, shall be disregarded;

(b)any covenant income, up to the amount of the standard maintenance grant, which is not so disregarded, shall be apportioned equally between the weeks of the period of study and there shall be disregarded from the covenant income to be so apportioned the amount which would have been disregarded under [F1007regulation 62(2)(g) and (h) and (2A)] (calculation of grant income) had the student been in receipt of the standard maintenance grant;

(c)the balance, if any, shall be divided by 52 or, if there are 53 benefit weeks (including part weeks) in the year, 53 and treated as weekly income of which £5 shall be disregarded.

(2) Where a student is in receipt of income by way of a grant and no contribution has been assessed, the amount of his covenant income shall be calculated in accordance with sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of paragraph (1), except that—

(a)the value of the standard maintenance grant shall be abated by the amount of his grant income less an amount equal to the amount of any sums disregarded under regulation 62(2)(a) to (f); and

(b)the amount to be disregarded under paragraph (1)(b) shall be abated by an amount equal to the amount of any sums disregarded under [F1007regulation 62(2)(g) and (h) and (2A)].

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I61Reg. 64 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Relationship with amounts to be disregarded under Schedule 9E+W+S

65.  No part of a student's covenant income or grant income shall be disregarded under paragraph 15 of Schedule 9 (charitable and voluntary payments) F1008....

Textual Amendments

F1008Words in reg. 65 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(5)

Commencement Information

I62Reg. 65 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Other amounts to be disregardedE+W+S

66.—(1) For the purposes of ascertaining income [F1009other than grant income, covenant income and loans treated as income in accordance with regulation 66A], any amounts intended for any expenditure specified in regulation 62(2) (calculation of grant income) necessary as a result of his attendance on the course shall be disregarded but only if, and to the extent that, the necessary expenditure exceeds or is likely to exceed the amount of the sums disregarded under regulation 62(2) [F1010and (2A)], 63(3)[F1011, 64(1)(a) or (b) and 66A(5) (calculation of grant income, covenant income and treatment of student loans)] on like expenditure.

(2) Where a claim is made in respect of any period in the normal summer vacation and any income is payable under a Deed of Covenant which commences or takes effect after the first day of that vacation, that income shall be disregarded.

Textual Amendments

F1009Words in reg. 66(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 5(a)

F1010Words in reg. 66(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 5(b)

F1011Words in reg. 66(1) substituted (1.8.1999, 30.8.1999 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security Amendment (Students) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1935), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(4)

Commencement Information

I63Reg. 66 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F1012Treatment of student loans [F1013and postgraduate F1014... loans] E+W+S

[F101566A.(1) A student loan [F1016and a postgraduate F1017... loan] shall be treated as incomeF1018...].

F1019(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1020(2) In calculating the weekly amount of the loan to be taken into account as income—

[F1021(a)in respect of a course that is of a single academic year’s duration or less, a loan which is payable in respect of that period shall be apportioned equally between the weeks in the period beginning with—

(i)except in a case where (ii) below applies, the benefit week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of the single academic year;

(ii)where the student is required to start attending the course in August or where the course is of less than an academic year’s duration, the benefit week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of the course,

and ending with the benefit week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of the course;]

[F1022(aa)in respect of an academic year of a course which starts other than on 1st September, a loan which is payable in respect of that academic year shall be apportioned equally between the weeks in the period beginning with the benefit week[F1023, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of that academic year and ending with the benefit week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes,] the last day of that academic year but excluding any benefit weeks falling entirely within the quarter during which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, the longest of any vacation is taken and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, “quarter” shall have the same meaning as for the purposes of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2001;]

(b)in respect of the final academic year of a course (not being a course of a single year’s duration), a loan which is payable in respect of that final academic year shall be apportioned equally between the weeks in the period beginning withF1024...—

[F1025(i)except in a case where (ii) below applies, the benefit week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of that academic year;]

[F1025(ii)where the final academic year starts on 1st September, the benefit week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the earlier of 1st September or the first day of the autumn term;]

and ending with [F1026the benefit week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes,] the last day of the course;

(c)in any other case, the loan shall be apportioned equally between the weeks in the period beginning with the earlier of—

(i)the first day of the first benefit week in September; or

(ii)[F1027the benefit week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of the autumn term,]

and ending with [F1028the benefit week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of June],

and, in all cases, from the weekly amount so apportioned there shall be disregarded £10.]

[F1029(3) A student shall be treated as possessing a student loan [F1030or a postgraduate F1031... loan] in respect of an academic year where—

(a)a student loan [F1030or a postgraduate F1031... loan] has been made to him in respect of that year; or

(b)he could acquire [F1032a student loan or a postgraduate F1031... loan] in respect of that year by taking reasonable steps to do so.]]

[F1029(4) Where a student is treated as possessing a student loan under paragraph (3), the amount of the student loan to be taken into account as income shall be, subject to paragraph (5)—

(a)in the case of a student to whom a student loan is made in respect of an academic year, a sum equal to the maximum student loan he is able to acquire in respect of that year by taking reasonable steps to do so and either—

(i)in the case of a student other than one to whom head (ii) refers, any contribution whether or not it has been paid to him; or

(ii)in the case of a student to whom paragraph 1, 2, F1033... 11 [F1034, F1033... or 15A of Schedule 1B applies (lone parent, disabled student or persons in education], any contribution which has actually been paid to him;

(b)in the case of a student to whom a student loan is not made in respect of an academic year, the maximum student loan that would be made to the student if—

(i)he took all reasonable steps to obtain the maximum student loan he is able to acquire in respect of that year; and

(ii)no deduction in that loan was made by virtue of the application of a means test.]

[F1035(4A) Where a student is treated as possessing a postgraduate F1036... loan under paragraph (3) in respect of an academic year, the amount of that loan to be taken into account as income shall be, subject to paragraph (5), a sum equal to 30 per cent. of the maximum postgraduate F1036... loan the student is able to acquire in respect of that academic year by taking reasonable steps to do so.]

[F1029(5) There shall be deducted from the amount of income taken into account under paragraph (4) [F1037or (4A)]

(a)the sum of [F1038£303] per academic year in respect of travel costs; and

[F1039(b) the sum of [F1040£390] per academic year towards the costs of books and equipment,]

whether or not any such costs are incurred.]

Textual Amendments

F1015Reg. 66A(1)(1A) substituted for reg. 66A(1) (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 2(5)(a)

F1020Reg. 66A(2) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 2(5)(b)

F1029Reg. 66A(3)-(5) substituted for reg. 66A(3) (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1935), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(5)(b)

F1038Word in reg. 66A(5)(a) substituted (for specified purposes and, 1.9.2009 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1575), reg. 1(3), reg. 2(2)(4)(a)

F1040Word in reg. 66A(5)(b) substituted (for specified purposes and, 1.9.2009 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1575), reg. 1(3), reg. 2(3)(4)(a)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

[F1041Treatment of payments from access fundsE+W+S

66B.(1) This regulation applies to payments from access funds that are not payments to which regulation 68(2) or (3) (income treated as capital) applies.

(2) A payment from access funds, other than a payment to which paragraph (3) of this regulation applies, shall be disregarded as income.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4) of this regulation and paragraph 36 of Schedule 9, any payments from access funds which are intended and used for food, ordinary clothing or footwearF1042..., household fuel, rent for which housing benefit is payable [F1043or any housing costs] to the extent that they are met under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs) F1044..., of a single claimant or, as the case may be, of [F1045any other member of his family] [F1045his partner], and any payments from access funds which are used for any council tax or water charges for which that claimant or [F1046member is liable] [F1046partner is liable] shall be disregarded as income to the extent of £20 per week.

[F1047(3A) In paragraph (3) “ordinary clothing or footwear” means clothing or footwear for normal daily use, but it does not include—

(a)school uniforms, or

(b)clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities.]

(4) Where a payment from access funds is made—

(a)on or after 1st September or the first day of the course, whichever first occurs, but before receipt of any student loan in respect of that year and that payment is intended for the purpose of bridging the period until receipt of the student loan; or

(b)before the first day of the course to a person in anticipation of that person becoming a student,

that payment shall be disregarded as income.]

[F1048Treatment of fee loansE+W+S

66C.  A loan for fees, known as a fee loan or a fee contribution loan, made pursuant to regulations made under Article 3 of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 or section 73(f) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980, shall be disregarded as income.]

Textual Amendments

F1048Reg. 66C inserted (1.8.2006 for specified purposes and, 1.9.2006 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security (Students and Income-related Benefits) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1752), regs. 1(2), 4(4)

[F1049Treatment of loans for specific purposesE+W+S

66D.  A loan under the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2011 or regulations made under section 73 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 that is intended to meet the cost of books, equipment, travel or childcare is to be disregarded as income.]

Disregard of contributionE+W+S

67.  Where the claimant or his partner is a student and[F1050, for the purposes of assessing a contribution to the student’s grant [F1051or student loan], 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.]

Textual Amendments

F1051Words in reg. 67 inserted (1.8.1999, 30.8.1999 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security Amendment (Students) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1935), regs. 1(1)(b), 3(6)

Commencement Information

I64Reg. 67 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F1052Further disregard of student’s incomeE+W+S

67A.  Where any part of a student’s income has already been taken into account for the purposes of assessing his entitlement to a grant [F1053, student loan or postgraduate F1054... loan], the amount taken into account shall be disregarded in assessing that student’s income.]

Income treated as capitalE+W+S

68.[F1055(1)] Any amount by way of a refund of tax deducted from a student's income shall be treated as capital.

[F1055(2) An amount paid from access funds as a single lump sum shall be treated as capital.

(3) An amount paid from access funds as a single lump sum which is intended and used for an item other than food, ordinary clothing or footwear F1056..., household fuel, rent for which housing benefit is payable [F1057or any housing costs] to the extent that they are met under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs) F1058..., of a single claimant or, as the case may be, of [F1059any other member of his family][F1059his partner], or which is used for an item other than any council tax or water charges for which that claimant or [F1060member is liable][F1060partner is liable] shall be disregarded as capital but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of the payment.]

[F1061(4) In paragraph (3) “ordinary clothing or footwear” means clothing or footwear for normal daily use, but it does not include—

(a)school uniforms, or

(b)clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities.]

Textual Amendments

F1055Reg 68 renumbered as reg. 68(1) and reg. 68(2)(3) added (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 2(7)

F1059Words in reg. 68(3) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 17(a)

F1060Words in reg. 68(3) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 17(a)

Commencement Information

I65Reg. 68 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Disregard of changes occurring during summer vacationE+W+S

69.  In calculating a student's income [F1062there shall be disregarded] any change in the standard maintenance grant occurring in the recognised summer vacation appropriate to the student's course, if that vacation does not form part of his period of study, from the date on which the change occurred up to the end of that vacation.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I66Reg. 69 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

PART VIE+W+SURGENT CASES

Urgent casesE+W+S

F106370.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1063Pt. VI revoked (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3228), reg. 2(1)(a) (with reg. 2(2)-(4))

Applicable amounts in urgent casesE+W+S

F106371.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1063Pt. VI revoked (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3228), reg. 2(1)(a) (with reg. 2(2)-(4))

Commencement Information

I67Reg. 71 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Assessment of income and capital in urgent casesE+W+S

F106372.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1063Pt. VI revoked (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3228), reg. 2(1)(a) (with reg. 2(2)-(4))

[F1064PART VIIE+W+SCALCULATION OF INCOME SUPPORT FOR PART-WEEKS

Amount of income support payableE+W+S

73.(1) Subject to regulations 75 (modifications in income) and 76 (reduction in certain cases), where a claimant is entitled to income support for a period (referred to in this Part as a part-week) to which subsection (1A) of section 21 of the Act (amount etc. of income-related benefit) applies, the amount of income support payable shall, except where paragraph (2) applies, be calculated in accordance with the following formulae—

(a)if the claimant has no income,

(b)if the claimant has income,

F1065(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) In this Regulation—

  • “A”, F1066... means the claimant’s weekly applicable amount in the relevant week;

  • “B” means the amount of any income support, [F1067jobseeker’s allowance], [F1068maternity allowance,] [F1069short-term or long-term incapacity benefit], [F1070severe disablement allowance or employment and support allowance] payable in respect of any day in the part-week;

  • “I” means his weekly income in the relevant week less B;

  • “N” means the number of days in the part-week;

  • “relevant week” means the period of 7 days determined in accordance with regulation 74.

F1071(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1071(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Relevant weekE+W+S

74.(1) Where the part-week—

(a)is the whole period for which income support is payable or occurs at the beginning of the claim, the relevant week is the period of 7 days ending on the last day of that part-week; or

(b)occurs at the end of the claim, the relevant week is the period of 7 days beginning on the first day of that part-week.

(2) Where during the currency of a claim the claimant makes a claim for a relevant social security benefit within the meaning of paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 and as a result his benefit week changes, for the purpose of calculating the amount of income support payable—

(a)for the part-week beginning on the day after his last complete benefit week before the date from which he makes a claim for the relevant social security benefit and ending immediately before that date, the relevant week is the period of 7 days beginning on the day after his last complete benefit week (the first relevant week);

(b)for the part-week beginning on the date from which he makes a claim for the relevant social security benefit and ending immediately before the start of his next benefit week after the date of that claim, the relevant week is the period of 7 days ending immediately before the start of his next benefit week (the second relevant week).

(3) Where during the currency of a claim the claimant’s benefit week changes at the direction of the Secretary of State under paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987, for the purpose of calculating the amount of income Support payable for the part-week beginning on the day after his last complete benefit week before the change and ending immediately before the change, the relevant week is the period of 7 days beginning On the day after the last complete benefit week.

Modifications in the calculation of incomeE+W+S

75.  For the purposes of regulation 73 (amount of income support payable for part-weeks), a claimant’s income and the income of any person which the claimant is treated as possessing under section 22(5) of the Act or regulation 23(3) shall be calculated in accordance with Part V and, where applicable, VI subject to the following modifications—

(a)any income which is due to be paid in the relevant week shall be treated as paid on the first day of that week;

(b)any income support, [F1072jobseeker’s allowance], [F1073maternity allowance,] [F1074short-term or long-term incapacity benefit], [F1075severe disablement allowance [F1076, employment and support allowance or universal credit]] F1077... payable in the relevant week but not in respect of any day in the part-week shall be disregarded;

(c)where the part-week occurs at the end of the claim, any income or any change in the amount of income of the same kind which is first payable within the relevant week but not on any day in the part-week shall be disregarded;

(d)where the part-week occurs immediately after a period in which a person was treated as engaged in remunerative work under regulation 5(5) (persons treated as engaged in remunerative work) any earnings which are taken into account for the purposes of determining that period shall be disregarded;

(e)where regulation 74(2) (relevant week) applies, any payment of income which—

(i)is the final payment in a series of payments of the same kind or, if there has been an interruption in such payments, the last one before the interruption;

(ii)is payable in respect of a period not exceeding a week; and

(iii)is due to be paid on a day which falls within both the first and second relevant weeks,

shall be taken into account in either the first relevant week or, if it is impracticable to take it into account in that week, in the second relevant week; but this paragraph shall not apply to a payment of income support, [F1078jobseeker’s allowance], [F1079maternity allowance,] [F1080short-term or long-term incapacity benefit] [F1081, severe disablement allowance or employment and support allowance] F1082...;

(f)where regulation 74(2) applies, any payment of income which—

(i)is the final payment in a series of payments of the same kind or, if there has been an interruption in such payments, the last one before the interruption;

(ii)is payable in respect of a period exceeding a week but not exceeding 2 weeks; and

(iii)is due to be paid on a day which falls within both the first and second relevant weeks,

shall be disregarded; but this sub-paragraph shall not apply to a payment of income support, [F1083jobseeker’s allowance], [F1084maternity allowance,] [F1080short-term or long-term incapacity benefit], [F1085severe disablement allowance or employment and support allowance] F1082...;

(g)where regulation 74(2) applies, if the weekly amount of any income which is due to be paid on a day which falls within both the first and second relevant weeks is more than the weekly amount of income of the same kind due to be paid in the last complete benefit week, the excess shall be disregarded;

(h)where only part of the weekly amount of income is taken into account in the relevant week, the balance shall be disregarded.

Textual Amendments

F1072Words in reg. 75(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 20

F1073Words in reg. 75(b) inserted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 17

F1078Words in reg. 75(e) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 20

F1079Words in reg. 75(e) inserted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 17

F1083Words in reg. 75(f) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 20

F1084Words in reg. 75(f) inserted (12.9.1988) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), regs. 1(1)(b), 17

Reduction in certain casesE+W+S

76.  There shall be deducted from the amount of income support which would, but for this regulation, be payable for a part-week—

(a)[F1086in the case of a claimant to whom regulation 22A (reduction in applicable amount where the claimant is appealing against a decision [F1087which embodies a determination] that he is not incapable of work) applies], the proportion of the relevant amount specified therein appropriate to the number of days in the part-week;

(b)where regulation 75(f) (modifications in the calculation of income) applies, one-half of the amount disregarded under regulation 75(f) less the weekly amount of any disregard under Schedule 8 or 9 appropriate to that payment.

Modification of section 23(5) of the ActE+W+S

77.  Where income support is payable for a part-week, section 23(5) of the Act (trade disputes) shall have effect as if the following paragraph were substituted for paragraph (b)—

(b)any payment by way of income support for a part-week which apart from this paragraph would be made to him, or to a person whose applicable amount is aggregated with his—

(i)shall not be made if the payment for that part-week is equal to or less than the proportion of the relevant sum appropriate to the number of days in the part-week; or

(ii)if it is more than that proportion, shall be made at a rate equal to the difference.]

Secretary of State for Social Services

Regulation 8

F1088SCHEDULE 1E+W+SPERSONS NOT REQUIRED TO BE AVAILABLE FOR EMPLOYMENT

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Regulation 13A

F1088SCHEDULE 1AE+W+SCIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH A PERSON AGED 16 OR 17 IS ELIGIBLE FOR INCOME SUPPORT

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Regulation 4ZA

[F1089SCHEDULE 1BE+W+SPRESCRIBED CATEGORIES OF PERSON

Textual Amendments

[F1090Lone parentsE+W+S

1.(1) A lone parent who is responsible for, and a member of the same household as—

(a)a single child aged under 5, or

(b)more than one child where the youngest is aged under 5.

(2) A lone parent who is under the age of 18.]

Single persons looking after foster childrenE+W+S

[F10912.  A single claimant or a lone parent with whom a child is placed—

(a)by a local authority or voluntary organisation within the meaning of the Children Act 1989;

(b)by a local authority or voluntary organisation within the meaning of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995;

(c)by virtue of any order or warrant made under the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011.]

[F1092Single persons looking after children placed with them prior to adoptionE+W+S

2A.  A single claimant or a lone parent with whom a child is placed for adoption by an adoption agency within the meaning of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.]

Persons temporarily looking after another personE+W+S

3.  A person who is—

(a)looking after a child because the parent of that child or the person who usually looks after him is [F1093temporarily] ill or is temporarily absent from his home; or

(b)looking after a member of his family who is temporarily ill.

Persons caring for another personE+W+S

4.  A person (the carer)—

(a)who is regularly and substantially engaged in caring for another person if—

(i)the person being cared for is in receipt of attendance allowance F1094... [F1095[F1096, armed forces independence payment, the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 72(3) of the Contributions and Benefits Act] [F1097, the care component of child disability payment at the highest or middle rate in accordance with the DACYP Regulations (see regulation 11(5) of those Regulations),] [F1098,] the daily living component of personal independence payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with section 78(3) of the 2012 Act] [F1099or the daily living component of adult disability payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with regulation 5 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022]; or

(ii)the person being cared for has claimed attendance allowance F1100... but only for the period up to the date of determination of that claim, or the period of 26 weeks from the date of that claim, whichever date is the earlier; or

[F1101(iia)the person being cared for has claimed attendance allowance in accordance with section 65(6)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (claims in advance of entitlement), an award has been made in respect of that claim under section 65(6)(b) of that Act and, where the period for which the award is payable has begun, that person is in receipt of the allowance;] [F1102or]

(iii)the person being cared for has claimed entitlement to a disability living allowance [F1103, child disability payment] [F1104, armed forces independence payment] [F1105[F1106,] personal independence payment] [F1107 or adult disability payment] but only for the period up to the date of determination of that claim, or the period of 26 weeks from the date of that claim, whichever date is the earlier; or

[F1108(iiia)the person being cared for has claimed entitlement to the care component of a disability living allowance in accordance with, regulation 13A of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 (advance claims and awards), an award at the highest or middle rate has been made in respect of that claim and, where the period for which the award is payable has begun, that person is in receipt of the allowance][F1109; or]

[F1110(iiib)the person being cared for (“P”) has claimed entitlement to the care component of child disability payment in accordance with regulation 24 (when an application is to be treated as made and beginning of entitlement to assistance) of the DACYP Regulations, an award at the highest or middle rate has been made in respect of P’s claim, and where the period for which the award is payable has begun, P is in receipt of that payment;]

[F1109(iv)the person being cared for has claimed entitlement to the daily living component of personal independence payment in accordance with regulation 33 of the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Claims and Payments) Regulations 2013 (advance claim for and award of personal independence payment), an award at the standard or enhanced rate has been made in respect of that claim and, where the period for which the award is payable has begun, that person is in receipt of the payment;]

[F1111(v)the person being cared for has claimed entitlement to the daily living component of adult disability payment in accordance with regulation 35 (when an application is to be treated as made and beginning of entitlement to assistance) of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022, an award at the standard or enhanced rate has been made in respect of that claim and, where the period for which the award is payable has begun, that person is in receipt of the payment;]

(b)who is engaged in caring for another person and [F1112who is both entitled to, and in receipt of,] [F1113a carer’s allowance] [F1114or carer support payment] [F1115 or would be in receipt of [F1116a carer’s allowance] but for the application of a restriction under section [F11176B or] 7 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (loss of benefit provisions)].

Textual Amendments

F1102Word in Sch. 1B para. 4(a)(iia) inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/859), regs. 1(3), 3(4)

5.  A person to whom paragraph 4 applied, but only for a period of 8 weeks from the date on which that paragraph ceased to apply to him.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

6.  A person who, had he previously made a claim for income support, would have fulfilled the conditions of paragraph 4, but only for a period of 8 weeks from the date on which he ceased to fulfil those conditions.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

[F1118Persons treated as capable of work and persons entitled to statutory sick pay] E+W+S

7.  A person who—

F1119(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1119(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)is treated as capable of work by virtue of regulations made under section 171E(1) of [F1120the Contributions and Benefits Act] (disqualification etc.); or

(d)is entitled to statutory sick pay.

[F1121Certain persons in receipt of the daily living component of personal independence payment [F1122or adult disability payment] E+W+S

7A.  A person who is in receipt of the daily living component of personal independence payment at the enhanced rate [F1123or the daily living component of adult disability payment at the enhanced rate] but only where, immediately before receiving that benefit, the person was entitled to and in receipt of income support because he or she was treated as incapable of work under regulation 10(2)(a)(i) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995.]

Disabled workersE+W+S

F11248.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Persons in employment living in residential care homes, nursing homes or residential accommodationE+W+S

F11249.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1125Persons who have commenced remunerative workE+W+S

9A.  A person to whom regulation 6(5) (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies.]

Disabled studentsE+W+S

F112610.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11.  A person who is a [F1127full-time student] and who—

(a)immediately before 1st September 1990 was in receipt of income support by virtue of paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 as then in force; or

(b)on or after that date makes a claim for income support and at a time during the period of 18 months immediately preceding the date of that claim was in receipt of income support either by virtue of that paragraph or regulation 13(2)(b),

but this paragraph shall not apply where for a continuous period of 18 months or more the person has not been in receipt of income support.

Deaf studentsE+W+S

F112812.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Blind personsE+W+S

F112913.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

PregnancyE+W+S

14.  A woman who—

(a)is incapable of work by reason of pregnancy; or

(b)is or has been pregnant but only for the period commencing 11 weeks before her expected week of confinement and ending F1130... [F1131 fifteen weeks after the date on which her pregnancy ends F1130...].

[F1132Parental leaveE+W+S

14A.(1) A person who is—

(a)entitled to, and taking, parental leave by virtue of Part III of the Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999 in respect of a child who is a member of his household; and

(b)not entitled to any remuneration from his employer in respect of that leave for the period to which his claim for income support relates; and

(c)entitled toF1133..., [F1134working tax credit, child tax credit payable at a rate higher than the family element,] housing benefit or council tax benefit on the day before that leave begins.

(2) In this paragraph “remuneration” means payment of any kind [F1135and “family element” means in a case where any child in respect of whom child tax credit is payable is under the age of one year, the amount specified in regulation 7(3)(a) of the Child Tax Credit Regulations 2002 or in any other case, the amount specified in regulation 7(3)(b) of those Regulations] [F1136but subject in any case to calculations of those amounts made in accordance with the Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) Regulations 2002]. ]

[F1137Paternity LeaveE+W+S

14B.(1) A person who is entitled to, and is taking, F1138[F1139... paternity leave by virtue of section 80A or 80B of the Employment Rights Act 1996] and who satisfies either or both of the conditions set out in sub-paragraph (2) below.

(2) The conditions for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) are—

(a)he is not entitled to F1138[F1140... statutory paternity pay] by virtue of Part 12ZA of the Contributions and Benefits Act, or to any remuneration from his employer in respect of that leave for the period to which his claim for income support relates;

(b)he is entitled toF1141..., [F1142working tax credit, child tax credit payable at a rate higher than the family element,] housing benefit or council tax benefit on the day before that leave begins.

(3) In this paragraph “remuneration” means payment of any kind [F1143and “family element” means in a case where any child in respect of whom child tax credit is payable is under the age of one year, the amount specified in regulation 7(3)(a) of the Child Tax Credit Regulations 2002 or in any other case, the amount specified in regulation 7(3)(b) of those Regulations] [F1144but subject in any case to calculations of those amounts made in accordance with the Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) Regulations 2002. ]]

Textual Amendments

[F1145Parental Bereavement LeaveE+W+S

14C.(1) A person who is entitled to, and is taking, parental bereavement leave by virtue of section 80EA of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and who satisfies either or both of the conditions set out in sub-paragraph (2) below.

(2) The conditions for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) are that the person—

(a)is not entitled to statutory parental bereavement pay by virtue of Part 12ZD of the Contributions and Benefits Act, or to any remuneration from their employer in respect of that leave for the period to which the claim for income support relates;

(b)is entitled to working tax credit, child tax credit payable at a rate higher than the family element, housing benefit or council tax benefit on the day before that leave begins.

(3) In this paragraph “remuneration” means payment of any kind and “family element” means the amount specified in regulation 7(3) of the Child Tax Credit Regulations 2002 but subject in any case to calculations of that amount made in accordance with the Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) Regulations 2002.]

Persons in educationE+W+S

15.  A person to whom any provision of regulation 13(2)(a) to (e) (persons receiving relevant education who are parents, [F1146disabled persons, persons with limited leave to enter or remain], orphans and persons estranged from their parents or guardian) applies.

[F1147Certain persons who have enrolled on, been accepted for or are undertaking full-time, non-advanced education]E+W+S

15A.[F1148(1) A person (“P”) who satisfies the following conditions.

(2) The first condition is that P has enrolled on, been accepted for or is undertaking a course of full-time, non-advanced education.

(3) The second condition is that P is—

(a)under the age of 21; or

(b)21 and attained that age whilst undertaking a course of full-time, non-advanced education.

(4) The third condition is that—

(a)P has no parent;

(b)of necessity P has to live away from P’s parents because—

(i)P is estranged from P’s parents,

(ii)P is in physical or moral danger, or

(iii)there is a serious risk to P’s physical or mental health; or

(c)P is living away from P’s parents because they are unable to support P financially and are—

(i)chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled,

(ii)detained in custody pending trial or sentencing upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court, or

(iii)prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain.]

F1149(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6) In this paragraph—

chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled” has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(b);

[F1150“course of full-time, non-advanced education” means a course of full-time education which is not a course of advanced education and which is not provided to P by virtue of P’s employment or any office held by P, which is—

(a)

provided at a school or college, or

(b)

provided elsewhere but is approved by the Secretary of State as being such a course,

and for this purpose, “course of advanced education” has the same meaning as in regulation 61(1)]

parent” includes a person acting in place of a parent which—

(a)

for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(a) and (b) has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(a)(i), and

(b)

for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(c), has the meaning given in regulation 13(3)(a)(ii).

Certain persons aged 50 who have not been in remunerative work for 10 yearsE+W+S

F115116.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Certain persons aged between 55 and 60 whose spouse or civil partner has diedE+W+S

F115216A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Persons aged 60 or overE+W+S

F115317.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

RefugeesE+W+S

18.  A person who is a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 as extended by Article 1(2) of the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees done at New York on 31st January 1967 and who—

(a)is attending for more than 15 hours a week a course for the purpose of learning English so that he may obtain employment; and

(b)on the date on which that course commenced, had been in Great Britain for not more than 12 months,

but only for a period not exceeding nine months.

F115418A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1155Persons required to attend court or tribunalE+W+S

19.(1) A person who is required to attend a court or tribunal as a justice of the peace, a party to any proceedings, a witness or a juror.

(2) In this paragraph, “tribunal” means any tribunal listed in Schedule 1 to the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992.]

Persons affected by a trade disputeE+W+S

20.  A person to whom section 126 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom section 124(1) of that Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 127(b) of that Act (effect of return to work).

[F1156Persons from abroadE+W+S

21.  A person not excluded from entitlement to income support under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 by virtue of regulation 2 of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000 except for a person to whom paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part 1 of the Schedule to those Regulations applies.]

Textual Amendments

F1156Sch. 1B para. 21 substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3228), reg. 3(2)(d)

Persons in custodyE+W+S

22.  A person remanded in, or committed in, custody for trial or for sentencing.

Member of couple looking after children while other member temporarily abroadE+W+S

23.  A person who is a member of a couple and who is treated as responsible for a child who is a member of his household where the other member of that couple is temporarily not present in the United Kingdom.

Persons appealing against a decision [F1157which embodies a determination] that they are not incapable of workE+W+S

24.  A person—

(a)in respect of whom it has been determined for the purposes of section 171B of the Contributions and Benefits Act (the own occupation test) that he is not incapable of work; and

(b)whose medical practitioner continues to supply evidence of his incapacity for work in accordance with regulation 2 of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 (evidence of incapacity for work); and

(c)who has made and is pursuing an appeal against the [F1158decision which embodies a] determination that he is not so incapable,

but only for the period prior to the determination of his appeal.

25.  A person—

(a)in respect of whom it has been determined for the purposes of section 171C of the Contributions and Benefits Act (the [F1159personal capability assessment]) that he is not incapable of work; and

(b)who has made and is pursuing an appeal against the [F1160decision which embodies a] determination that he is not so incapable,

but only for the period [F1161beginning with the date on which that determination takes effect until] the determination of his appeal.

F116226.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F116227.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1163Persons engaged in training]E+W+S

28.  A person who is [F1164not a qualifying young person or child within the meaning of section 142 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (child and qualifying young person) and who is] engaged in training, and for this purpose “training” means training for which persons aged under 18 are eligible and for which persons aged 18 to 24 may be eligible [F1165secured by the [F1166[F1167Secretary of State]F1168...] or by the [F1169Welsh Ministers]] and, in Scotland, directly or indirectly by a Local Enterprise Company pursuant to its arrangement with, as the case may be, [F1170Skills Development Scotland,] Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise (whether that arrangement is known as an Operating Contract or by any other name).]

Regulations 17[F1171(1)] and 18

SCHEDULE 2E+W+SAPPLICABLE AMOUNTS

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C90Sch. 2 applied (with modifications) (8.4.2013) by S.I. 2003/2382 (as amended (E.) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances), (Dental Charges) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/475), regs. 1(2)(b), 24(2))

Regulations 17[F1171(1)](a) and (b) and 18(a) (b) and (c)

PART IE+W+Spersonal allowances

[F11721.  The weekly amounts specified in column (2) below in respect of each person or couple specified in column (1) shall be the weekly amounts specified for the purposes of regulations 17(1) and 18(1) (applicable amounts and polygamous marriages)—E+W+S

(1)(2)
Person or CoupleAmount

(1)  Single claimant aged—

(1)   

(a)except where head (b) or (c) of this sub-paragraph applies, less than 18;

(a)£71.70;

(b)less than 18 who falls within any of the circumstances specified in paragraph 1A;

(b)£71.70;

(c)less than 18 who satisfies the condition in paragraph 11(1)(a);

(c)£71.70;

(d)not less than 18 but less than 25;

(d)£71.70;

(e)not less than 25.

(e)£90.50.

(2) Lone parent aged—

(2)   

(a)except where head (b) or (c) of this sub-paragraph applies, less than 18;

(a)£71.70;

(b)less than 18 who falls within any of the circumstances specified in paragraph 1A;

(b)£71.70;

(c)less than 18 who satisfies the condition in paragraph 11(1)(a);

(c)£71.70;

(d)not less than 18.

(d)£90.50.

(3)  Couple—

(3)   

(a)where both members are aged less than 18 and—

(i)at least one of them is treated as responsible for a child; or

(ii)had they not been members of a couple, each would have qualified for income support under regulation 4ZA or income-related employment and support allowance; or

(iii)the claimant’s partner satisfies the requirements of section 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (prescribed circumstances for persons aged 16 but less than 18); or

(iv)there is in force in respect of the claimant’s partner a direction under section 16 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (persons under 18: severe hardship);

(a)£108.30;

(b)where both members are aged less than 18 and head (a) does not apply but one member of the couple falls within any of the circumstances specified in paragraph 1A;

(b)£71.70;

(c)where both members are aged less than 18 and heads (a) and (b) do not apply;

(c) £71.70;

(d)where both members are aged not less than 18;

(d)£142.25;

(e)where one member is aged not less than 18 and the other member is a person under 18 who—

(i)qualifies for income support under regulation 4ZA or income-related employment and support allowance, or who would so qualify if he were not a member of a couple; or

(ii)satisfies the requirements of section 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (prescribed circumstances for persons aged 16 but less than 18); or

(iii)is the subject of a direction under section 16 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (persons under 18: severe hardship);

(e)£142.25;

(f)where the claimant is aged not less than 18 but less than 25 and his partner is a person under 18 who—

(i)would not qualify for income support under regulation 4ZA or income-related employment and support allowance if he were not a member of a couple; and

(ii)does not satisfy the requirements of section 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (prescribed circumstances for persons aged 16 but less than 18); and

(iii)is not the subject of a direction under section 16 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (persons under 18: severe hardship);

(f)£71.70;

(g)where the claimant is aged not less than 25 and his partner is a person under 18 who—

(i)would not qualify for income support under regulation 4ZA or income-related employment and support allowance if he were not a member of a couple; and

(ii)does not satisfy the requirements of section 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (prescribed circumstances for persons aged 16 but less than 18); and

(iii)is not the subject of a direction under section 16 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (persons under 18: severe hardship).

(g) £90.50.]

Textual Amendments

F1172Sch. 2 para. 1 table substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(3)(a), Sch. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C93Sch. 2 para. 1: sums maintained (6.4.2016 to 5.4.2020) (16.3.2016) by Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016 (c. 7), s. 36(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 1(a)

Commencement Information

I68Sch. 2 para. 1 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F11731A.(1) The circumstances referred to in paragraph 1 are that—E+W+S

(a)the person has no parents nor any person acting in the place of his parents;

(b)the person—

(i)is not living with his parents nor any person acting in the place of his parents; and

(ii)in England and Wales, was being looked after by a local authority pursuant to a relevant enactment who placed him with some person other than a close relative of his; or in Scotland, was in the care of a local authority under a relevant enactment and whilst in that care was not living with his parents or any close relative, or was in custody in any institution to which the Prison Act 1952 or the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 applied immediately before he attained the age of 16;

(c)the person is in accommodation which is other than his parental home, and which is other than the home of a person acting in the place of his parents, who entered that accommodation—

(i)as part of a programme of rehabilitation or resettlement, that programme being under the supervision of the probation service or a local authority; or

(ii)in order to avoid physical or sexual abuse; or

(iii)because of a mental or physical handicap or illness and needs such accommodation because of his handicap or illness;

(d)the person is living away from his parents and any person who is acting in the place of his parents in a case where his parents are or, as the case may be, that person is, unable financially to support him and his parents are, or that person is—

(i)chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled; or

(ii)detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction or under sentence imposed by a court; or

(iii)prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain; or

(e)the person of necessity has to live away from his parents and any person acting in the place of his parents because—

(i)he is estranged from his parents and that person; or

(ii)he is in physical or moral danger; or

(iii)there is a serious risk to his physical or mental health.

(2) In this paragraph—

(a)“chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled” has the same meaning it has in regulation 13(3)(b) (circumstances in which persons in relevant education are to be entitled to income support);

(b)in England and Wales, any reference to a person acting in place of a person’s parents includes a reference to—

(i)where the person is being looked after by a local authority or voluntary organisation who place him with a family, a relative of his, or some other suitable person, the person with whom the person is placed, whether or not any payment is made to him in connection with the placement; or

(ii)in any other case, any person with parental responsibility for the child, and for this purpose “parental responsibility” has the meaning it has in the Children Act 1989 by virtue of section 3 of that Act;

(c)in Scotland, any reference to a person acting in place of a person’s parents includes a reference to a local authority or voluntary organisation where the person is in their care under a relevant enactment, or to a person with whom the person is boarded out by a local authority or voluntary organisation whether or not any payment is made by them.]

[F11742.  [F1175(1)The weekly amounts specified in column (2) below in respect of each person specified in column (1) shall, for the relevant period specified in column (1), be the weekly amounts specified for the purposes of regulations 17(1)(b) and 18(1)(c).E+W+S

(1)(2)
Child or Young PersonAmount
Person in respect of the period—
(a)beginning on that person’s date of birth and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday;(a)[F1176£83.24]
(b)beginning on the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday and ending on the day preceding that person’s twentieth birthday.(b)[F1177£83.24].]

[F1178(2) In column (1) of the table in paragraph (1), “the first Monday in September" means the Monday which first occurs in the month of September in any year.]]

Textual Amendments

F1174Sch. 2 para. 2 table substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(g) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/281), arts. 1(2)(g), 21(3), Sch. 2

F1175Sch. 2 para. 2 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 20(a)

F1176Sum in Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(a) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(3)(b)

F1177Sum in Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(3)(b)

Commencement Information

I69Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

F11792A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

Regulations 17[F1171(1)](c) and 18(d)

PART IIE+W+Sfamily premium

3.[F1180[F1181(1)] The weekly amount for the purposes of regulations 17[F1171(1)](c) [F1182and 18(1)](d) in respect of a family of which at least one member is a child or young person shall be

[F1183(a)where the claimant is a lone parent [F1184to whom the conditions in both sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) apply] and no premium is applicable under paragraph 9, 9A, 10 or 11, [F1185£19.15]

(b)in any other case,] [F1186£19.15].

[F1187(2) The first condition for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a) is that the claimant—

(a)was both a lone parent and entitled to income support on 5th April 1998; or

(b)does not come within head (a) above but—

(i)was both a lone parent and entitled to income support on any day during the period of 12 weeks ending on 5th April 1998;

(ii)was both a lone parent and entitled to income support on any day during the period of 12 weeks commencing on 6th April 1998; and

(iii)the last day in respect of which (i) above applied was no more than 12 weeks before the first day in respect of which (ii) above applied.

(3) The second condition for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a) is that as from the appropriate date specified in sub-paragraph (4), the claimant has continued, subject to sub-paragraph (5), to be both a lone parent and entitled to income support.

(4) The appropriate date for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) is—

(a)in a case to which sub-paragraph (2)(a) applies, 6th April 1998;

(b)in a case to which sub-paragraph (2)(b) applies, the first day in respect of which sub-paragraph (2)(b)(ii) applied.

(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3), where the claimant has ceased, for any period of 12 weeks or less, to be—

(a)a lone parent; or

(b)entitled to income support; or

(c)both a lone parent and entitled to income support,

the claimant shall be treated, on again becoming both a lone parent and entitled to income support, as having continued to be both a lone parent and entitled to income support throughout that period.

(6) In determining whether the conditions in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) apply, entitlement to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance shall be treated as entitlement to income support for the purposes of any requirement that a person is entitled to income support.]

[F1188(7) For the purposes of this paragraph, a claimant shall be treated as having been entitled to income support throughout any period which comprises only days on which he was participating in an employment zone programme and was not entitled to income support because, as a consequence of his participation in that programme, he was engaged in remunerative work or had income in excess of his applicable amount as prescribed in Part IV.]]

Textual Amendments

F1180Sch. 2 para. 3 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 20(a)

F1181Sch. 2 para. 3(1): Sch. 2 para. 3 renumbered as Sch. 2 para. 3(1) (6.4.1998) by The Social Security Amendment (Lone Parents) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/766), regs. 1(1), 12

F1183Words in Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 3 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1803), regs. 1(1)(b), 39(2)

F1185Sum in Sch. 2 para. 3(1)(a) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(4)(a)

F1186Sum in Sch. 2 para. 3(1)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(4)(b)

Commencement Information

I70Sch. 2 para. 3 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Regulations 17[F1171(1)](d) and 18(e)

PART IIIE+W+Spremiums

4.  Except as provided in paragraph 5, the weekly premiums specified in Part IV of this Schedule shall, for the purposes of regulations 17[F1171(1)](d) [F1189and 18(1)](e), be applicable to a claimant who satisfies the condition specified in [F1190[F1191paragraphs 9] [F1191paragraphs 8A]] [F1192to 14ZA] in respect of that premium.E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1190Words in Sch. 2 Pt. III para. 4 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1803), regs. 1(1)(b), 39(3)(a)

Commencement Information

I71Sch. 2 para. 4 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

5.  Subject to paragraph 6, where a claimant satisfies the conditions in respect of more than one premium in this Part of this Schedule, only one premium shall be applicable to him and, if they are different amounts, the higher or highest amount shall apply.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I72Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F11936.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the following premiums, namely—E+W+S

(a)a severe disability premium to which paragraph 13 applies;

(b)an enhanced disability premium to which paragraph 13A applies;

(c)[F1194a disabled child premium to which paragraph 14 applies; and]

(d)a carer premium to which paragraph 14ZA applies,

may be applicable in addition to any other premium which may apply under this Schedule.

(2) An enhanced disability premium in respect of a person shall not be applicable in addition to—

(a)a pensioner premium under paragraph 9 or 9A; or

(b)a higher pensioner premium under paragraph 10.]

Textual Amendments

F1194Sch. 2 para. 6(1)(c) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 20(a)

7.[F1195(1)] [F1196Subject to sub-paragraph (2)] for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, once a premium is applicable to claimant under this Part, a person shall be treated as being in receipt of any benefit—

(a)in the case of a benefit to which the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 F1197 applies, for any period during which, apart from the provisions of those Regulations, he would be in receipt of that benefit; F1198...

(b)for any period spent by a person in undertaking a course of training or instruction provided or approved by the [F1199Secretary of State F1200...] under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 F1201 [F1202or by [F1203Skills Development Scotland,] Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise under section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990,] [F1204or for any period during which he is in receipt of a training allowance] [F1205and]

[F1206(c)in the case of carer support payment, for any period during which, apart from regulation 16 of the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023, he would be in receipt of that benefit.]

[F1207(2) For the purposes of the carer premium under paragraph 14ZA, a person shall be treated as being in receipt of [F1208carer’s allowance] by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a) [F1209or carer support payment by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(c)] only if and for so long as the person in respect of whose care the allowance [F1210or payment] has been claimed remains in receipt of attendance allowance [F1211, F1212... the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 37ZB(3) of the Social Security Act] [F1213, the care component of child disability payment at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with the regulation 11(5) of the DACYP Regulations] [F1214or the daily living component of personal independence payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with section 78(3) of the 2012 Act] [F1215, the daily living component of adult disability payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with regulation 5 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022] [F1216or armed forces independence payment].]

Textual Amendments

F1195 Sch. 2 para. 7 renumbered as Sch. 7 para. 7(1) (1.10.1990) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1776), regs. 1(1)(a), 8(c)(i) (with reg. 1(2))

F12011973 c. 50 as amended by sections 9 and 11 and Schedule 2 Part II paragraph 9 and Schedule 3 of the Employment and Training Act 1981 (c. 57).

Commencement Information

I73Sch. 2 para. 7 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Lone Parent PremiumE+W+S

F12178.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1217Sch. 2 Pt. III para. 8 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1803), regs. 1(1)(b), 39(3)(b)

Bereavement PremiumE+W+S

F12188A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pensioner premium for persons under 75E+W+S

[F12199.  The condition is that the claimant has a partner aged [F1220not less than the qualifying age for state pension credit] but less than 75.]

Pensioner premium for persons 75 and overE+W+S

[F12219A.  The condition is that the claimant has a partner aged not less than 75 but less than 80.]

Higher Pensioner PremiumE+W+S

10.[F1222(1) [F1223Subject to sub-paragraph (6), the] condition is that—

(a)the claimant’s partner is aged not less than 80; or

(b)the claimant’s partner is aged less than 80 but [F1224not less than the qualifying age for state pension credit] and either—

(i)the additional condition specified in [F1225paragraph 12(1)(a), (c) or (d)] is satisfied; or

(ii)the claimant was entitled to, or was treated as being in receipt of, income support and—

(aa)the disability premium was or, as the case may be, would have been, applicable to him in respect of a benefit week within eight weeks of [F1226the day his partner attained the qualifying age for state pension credit]; and

(bb)he has, subject to sub-paragraph (3), remained continuously entitled to income support since his partner attained [F1227the qualifying age for state pension credit].]

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph and paragraph 12—

(a)once the higher pensioner premium is applicable to a claimant, if he then ceases, for a period of eight weeks or less, to be entitled to [F1228or treated as entitled to] income support, he shall, on becoming re-entitled to income support, thereafter be treated as having been continuously entitled thereto;

(b)in so far as [F1229sub-paragraph (1)(b)(ii) is] concerned, if a claimant ceases to be entitled to [F1228or treated as entitled to] income support for a period not exceeding eight weeks which includes [F1230the day his partner attained the qualifying age for state pension credit], he shall, on becoming re-entitled to income support, thereafter be treated as having been continuously entitled thereto.

[F1231(4) In the case of a claimant who is a welfare to work beneficiary, references in sub-paragraphs (1)(b)(ii)F1232... and (3)(b) to a period of 8 weeks shall be treated as references to a period of [F1233104 weeks].]

[F1234(5) For the purposes of this paragraph, a claimant shall be treated as having been entitled to and in receipt of income support throughout any period which comprises only days on which he was participating in an employment zone programme and was not entitled to income support because, as a consequence of his participation in that programme, he was engaged in remunerative work or had income in excess of his applicable amount as prescribed in Part IV.]

[F1235(6) The condition is not satisfied if the claimant’s partner to whom sub-paragraph (1) refers is a long-term patient.]

Textual Amendments

F1223Words in Sch. 2 para. 10(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(7)(b)(i)

F1232Words in Sch. 2 para. 10(4) omitted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(2), 2(7)(b)(ii)

F1235Sch. 2 para. 10(6) inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(7)(b)(iii)

Commencement Information

I74Sch. 2 para. 10 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Disability PremiumE+W+S

11.[F1236(1)] [F1237Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the] condition is that—

(a)where the claimant is a single claimant or a lone parent,F1238... the additional condition specified in paragraph 12 is satisfied; or

(b)where the claimant has a partner, either—

[F1239(i)the claimant satisfies the additional condition specified in [F1240paragraph 12(1)(a), (b), (c) or (d)]; or]

(ii)his partner [F1241has not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit] and the additional condition specified in [F1242paragraph 12(1)(a), (c) or (d)] is satisfied by his partner.

[F1243(2) The condition is not satisfied if—

(a)the claimant is a single claimant or a lone parent and (in either case) is a long-term patient;

(b)the claimant is a member of a couple or polygamous marriage and each member of the couple or polygamous marriage is a long-term patient; or

(c)the claimant is a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage and a member of that couple or polygamous marriage is—

(i)a long-term patient; and

(ii)the only member of the couple or polygamous marriage to whom sub-paragraph (1)(b) refers.]

Textual Amendments

F1236Sch. 2 para. 11(1): Sch. 2 para. 11 renumbered as Sch. 2 para. 11(1) (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(7)(c)(i)

F1237Words in Sch. 2 para. 11(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(7)(c)(ii)

F1243Sch. 2 para. 11(2) inserted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(7)(c)(iii)

Commencement Information

I75Sch. 2 para. 11 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Additional condition for the Higher Pensioner and Disability PremiumsE+W+S

12.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) and paragraph 7 the additional condition referred to in paragraphs 10 and 11 is that either—

(a)the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner—

(i)is in receipt of one or more of the following benefits: attendance allowance, [F1244disability living allowance, [F1245armed forces independence payment,] [F1246personal independence payment,] [F1247adult disability payment,] [F1248the disability element or the severe disability element of working tax credit as specified in regulation 20(1)(b) and (f) of the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations 2002]], mobility supplement, [F1249long-term incapacity benefit] under [F1250Part II of the Contributions and Benefits Act or severe disablement allowance under Part III of that Act] [F1251but, in the case of [F1249long-term incapacity benefit] or severe disablement allowance only where it is paid in respect of him]; or

(ii)is provided by the Secretary of State with an invalid carriage or other vehicle under section 5(2) of the National Health Service Act 1977 F1252 (other services) or, in Scotland, under section 46 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 F1253 (provision of vehicles) or receives payments by way of grant from the Secretary of State under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to that 1977 Act (additional provisions as to vehicles) or, in Scotland, under that section 46; or

[F1254(iii)is certified as severely sight impaired or blind by a consultant ophthalmologist; or]

[F1255(b) the claimant—

(i)is entitled to statutory sick pay or [F1256is, or is treated as, incapable of work,] in accordance with the provisions of Part XIIA of the Contributions and Benefits Act and the regulations made thereunder (incapacity for work), and

(ii)has been so entitled or so incapable[F1257, or has been treated as so incapable,] for a continuous period of not less than—

(aa)196 days in the case of a claimant who is terminally ill within the meaning of section 30B(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act; or

(bb)[F1258subject to [F1259paragraph 2A] of Schedule 7,] 364 days in any other case;

and for these purposes any two or more periods of entitlement or incapacity separated by a break of not more than 56 days shall be treated as one continuous period; or; and]

[F1260(c)the claimant’s partner was in receipt of long-term incapacity benefit under Part II of the Contributions and Benefits Act when entitlement to that benefit ceased on account of the payment of a retirement pension under that Act [F1261or a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act 2014] and—

(i)the claimant has since remained continuously entitled to income support;

(ii)the higher pensioner premium or disability premium has been applicable to the claimant; and

(iii)the partner is still alive;

(d)except where paragraph [F12622A F1263...] of Schedule 7 (patients) applies, the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner was in receipt of attendance allowance [F1264, disability living allowance [F1265, personal independence payment or adult disability payment]]

(i)but payment of that benefit has been suspended under the [F1266Social Security (Attendance Allowance) Regulations 1991 [F1267, the Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991 or regulations made under section 86(1) (hospital in-patients) of the 2012 Act]] or otherwise abated as a consequence of the claimant or his partner becoming a patient within the meaning of regulation 21(3); and

(ii)a higher pensioner premium or disability premium has been applicable to the claimant.]

[F1268(1A) In the case of a claimant who is a welfare to work beneficiary, the reference in sub-paragraph (1)(b) to a period of 56 days shall be treated as a reference to a period of [F1269104 weeks].]

[F1270(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a)(iii), a person who has ceased to be certified as severely sight impaired or blind on regaining his eyesight shall nevertheless be treated as severely sight impaired or blind, as the case may be, and as satisfying the additional condition set out in that sub-paragraph for a period of 28 weeks following the date on which he ceased to be so certified.]

F1271(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) For the purpose of [F1272sub-paragraph (1)(c) and (d)], once the higher pensioner premium is applicable to the claimant by virtue of his satisfying the condition specified in that provision, if he then ceases, for a period of eight weeks or less, to be entitled to income support, he shall on again becoming so entitled to income support, immediately thereafter be treated as satisfying the condition in [F1272sub-paragraph (1)(c) and (d)].

[F1273(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(b), once the disability premium is applicable to a claimant by virtue of his satisfying the additional condition specified in that provision, he shall continue to be treated as satisfying that condition for any period spent by him in undertaking a course of training provided under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 [F1274or for any period during which he is in receipt of a training allowance].]

[F1275(6) For the purposes of [F1276sub-paragraph (1)(a)(i) and (c)], a reference to a person in receipt of long-term incapacity benefit includes a person in receipt of short-term incapacity benefit at a rate equal to the long-term rate by virtue of section 30B(4)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (short-term incapacity benefit for a person who is terminally ill), or who would be or would have been in receipt of short-term incapacity benefit at such a rate but for the fact that the rate of short-term incapacity benefit already payable to him is or was equal to or greater than the long-term rate.]

F1277(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1248Words in Sch. 2 para. 12(1)(a)(i) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(5)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 20(b)

F1250Words in Sch. 2 para. 12(1)(a)(i) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 30(2)

F12521977 c. 49; section 5(2) amended and subsection (2A) added by section 1 of the Public Health Laboratory Service Act 1979 (c. 23) and subsection (2B) added by section 9 of the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48).

F1258Words in Sch. 2 Pt. III para. 12(1)(b)(ii)(bb) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), reg. 4(3)(a)

F1259Words in Sch. 2 para. 12(1)(b)(ii)(bb) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(7)(d)(i)

F1262Words in Sch. 2 Pt. III para. 12(1)(d) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), reg. 4(3)(b)

F1263Words in Sch. 2 para. 12(1)(d) omitted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(7)(d)(ii)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I76Sch. 2 para. 12 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Severe Disability PremiumE+W+S

13.—(1) The condition is that the claimant is a severely disabled person.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), a claimant shall be treated as being a severely disabled person if, and only if—

(a)in the case of a single claimant[F1278, a lone parent or a claimant who is treated as having no partner in consequence of sub-paragraph (2A)]

(i)he is in receipt of attendance allowance[F1279, F1280... the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 37ZB(3) of the Social Security Act] [F1281or the daily living component of personal independence payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with section 78(3) of the 2012 Act] [F1282, the daily living component of adult disability payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with regulation 5 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022] [F1283or armed forces independence payment], and

(ii)subject to sub-paragraph (3), he has no non-dependants aged 18 or over [F1284normally residing with him or with whom he is normally residing,] and

[F1285(iii)no person is entitled to, and in receipt of, [F1208a carer’s allowance] under section 70 of the Contributions and Benefits Act [F1286or carer support payment] [F1287or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element] in respect of caring for him;]

(b)[F1288in the case of a claimant who] has a partner—

(i)he is in receipt of attendance allowance[F1289, F1290... the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 37ZB(3) of the Social Security Act] [F1291or the daily living component of personal independence payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with section 78(3) of the 2012 Act] [F1292, the daily living component of adult disability payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with regulation 5 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022] [F1293or armed forces independence payment]; and

(ii)his partner is also in receipt of such an allowance or, if he is a member of a polygamous marriage, all the partners of that marriage are in receipt thereof; and

(iii)subject to sub-paragraph (3), he has no non-dependants aged 18 or over [F1294normally residing with him or with whom he is normally residing,]

and, either [F1295a person is entitled to, and in receipt of, [F1208a carer’s allowance] [F1296or carer support payment] [F1297or has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element] in respect of caring for only one of the couple or, in the case of a polygamous marriage, for one or more but not all the partners of the marriage or, as the case may be, no person is entitled to, and in receipt of, such an allowance] [F1298or payment] [F1299or has such an award of universal credit] in respect of caring for either member of the couple or any partner of the polygamous marriage.

[F1300(2A) Where a claimant has a partner who does not satisfy the condition in sub-paragraph (2)(b)(ii), and that partner is [F1301severely sight impaired or blind or treated as severely sight impaired or blind] within the meaning of paragraph 12(1)(a)(iii) and (2), that partner shall be treated for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) as if he were not a partner of the claimant.]

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(a)(ii) and (2)(b)(iii) no account shall be taken of—

(a)a person receiving attendance allowance[F1302, F1303... the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 37ZB(3) of the Social Security Act] [F1304or the daily living component of personal independence payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with section 78(3) of the 2012 Act] [F1305, the daily living component of adult disability payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with regulation 5 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022] [F1306or armed forces independence payment]; or

F1307(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)subject to sub-paragraph (4), a person who joins the claimant's household for the first time in order to care for the claimant or his partner and immediately before so joining the claimant or his partner was treated as a severely disabled person; [F1308or

(d)a person who is [F1309severely sight impaired or blind or treated as severely sight impaired or blind] within the meaning of paragraph 12(1)(a)(iii) and (2).]

[F1310(3A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(b) a person shall be treatedF1311...—

(a)[F1312as being in receipt of] attendance allowance[F1313, or the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 37ZB(3) of the Social Security Act] if he would, but for his being a patient for a period exceeding 28 days, be so in receipt;]

[F1314(b)as being entitled to and in receipt of [F1208a carer’s allowance] [F1315or carer support payment] [F1316or having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element] if he would, but for the person for whom he was caring being a patient in hospital for a period exceeding 28 days, be so entitled and in receipt [F1317of carer’s allowance [F1315or carer support payment] or have such an award of universal credit].]

[F1318(c)as being in receipt of the daily living component of personal independence payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with section 78(3) of the 2012 Act if he would, but for a suspension of benefit in accordance with regulations under section 86(1) (hospital in-patients) of the 2012 Act, be so in receipt][F1319;

(d)as being in receipt of the daily living component of adult disability payment at the standard or enhanced rate in accordance with regulation 5 of the [F1320Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022], if they would, but for regulation 28 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Adult Disability Payment) of those Regulations, be so in receipt]

[F1321(3ZA) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(a)(iii) and (2)(b), no account shall be taken of an award of [F1208carer’s allowance] [F1322, carer support payment] [F1323or universal credit which includes the carer element] to the extent that payment of such an award is back-dated for a period before [F1324the date on which the award is first paid].]

(4) Sub-paragraph (3)(c) shall apply only for the first 12 weeks following the date on which the person to whom that provision applies first joins the claimant's household.

[F1325(5) In sub-paragraph (2)(a)(iii) and (b), references to a person being in receipt of [F1208a carer’s allowance] [F1326or as having an award of universal credit which includes the carer element] shall include references to a person who would have been in receipt of that allowance [F1327or had such an award] but for the application of a restriction under section [F13286B or] 7 of the Social Security Fraud Act 2001 (loss of benefit provisions).]

[F1329(6) For the purposes of this paragraph, a person has an award of universal credit which includes the carer element if the person has an award of universal credit which includes an amount which is the carer element under regulation 29 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013.]

Textual Amendments

F1287Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(2)(a)(iii) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 14(2)

F1297Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(2)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 14(3)(a)

F1299Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(2)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 14(3)(b)

F1301Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(2A) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a)(ii)(aa)

F1307Sch. 2 para. 13(3)(b) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 18(3)

F1316Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(3A)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 14(4)(a)

F1317Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(3A)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 14(4)(b)

F1321Sch. 2 para. 13(3ZA) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 30(4)

F1323Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(3ZA) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 14(5)

F1324Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(3ZA) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(2), 2(7)(e)

F1326Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(5) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 14(6)(a)

F1327Words in Sch. 2 para. 13(5) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 14(6)(b)

F1329Sch. 2 para. 13(6) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1754), regs. 1(1), 14(7)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I77Sch. 2 para. 13 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F1330Enhanced disability premiumE+W+S

13A.[F1331[F1332(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the condition is that—

(a)the claimant; or

(b)the claimant’s partner, if any, who has not attained the qualifying age for state pension credit,

is a person to whom sub-paragraph (1ZA) applies.]

[F1332(1ZA) This sub-paragraph applies to the person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) where—

(a)armed forces independence payment is payable to that person;

(b)the care component of disability living allowance is, or would, but for a suspension of benefit in accordance with regulations under section 113(2) of the Contributions and Benefits Act or but for an abatement as a consequence of hospitalization, be payable to that person at the highest rate prescribed under section 72(3) of that Act; F1333...

[F1334(ba)the care component of child disability payment is payable to that person at the highest rate in accordance with the DACYP Regulations (see regulation 11(5) of those Regulations); F1335...]

(c)the daily living component of personal independence payment is, or would, but for regulations made under section 86(1) (hospital in-patients) of the 2012 Act, be payable to that person at the enhanced rate in accordance with section 78(2) of that Act]][F1336or

(d)the daily living component of adult disability payment is, or would, but for regulation 28 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Adult Disability Payment) of the [F1337Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022], be payable to that person at the enhanced rate in accordance with regulation 5 of those Regulations.]

[F1338(1A) Where the condition in sub-paragraph (1) ceases to be satisfied because of the death of a child or young person, the condition is that the claimant [F1339or partner] is entitled to child benefit in respect of that person under section 145A of the Contributions and Benefits Act (entitlement after death of child or qualifying young person).]

[F1340(2) The condition is not satisfied if the person to whom sub-paragraph (1) refers is—

(a)a child or young person—

(i)whose capital if calculated in accordance with Part 5 of these Regulations in like manner as for the claimant, except as provided in regulation 44(1), would exceed £3,000; or

(ii)who is a long-term patient;

(b)a single claimant or a lone parent and (in either case) is a long-term patient;

(c)a member of a couple or polygamous marriage and each member of the couple or polygamous marriage is a long-term patient; or

(d)a member of a couple or polygamous marriage who—

(i)is a long-term patient; and

(ii)is the only member of the couple or polygamous marriage to whom sub-paragraph (1) refers.]]

Textual Amendments

F1330Sch. 2 para. 13A inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Enhanced Disability Premium) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2629), regs. 1(1)(c), 2(c)(ii)

F1338Sch. 2 para. 13A(1A) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), reg. 3(5)(a)

F1340Sch. 2 para. 13A(2) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(7)(f)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C100Sch. 2 para. 13A(2)(a): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(2)(b)

C101Sch. 2 para. 13A(2)(a): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/316), arts. 1(3)(i), 21(2)(b)

Disabled Child PremiumE+W+S

[F134114.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the condition is that where the child or young person for whom the claimant or a partner of his is responsible and who is a member of the claimant’s household is—

(a)in receipt of disability living allowance or is no longer in receipt of that allowance because he is a patient provided that the child or young person continues to be a member of the family; F1342...

[F1343(aa)in receipt of child disability payment;]

(b)[F1344severely sight impaired or blind or treated as severely sight impaired or blind] within the meaning of paragraph 12(1)(a)(iii) and (2)[F1345; or

(c)a child or young person in respect of whom section 145A of the Contributions and Benefits Act (entitlement after death of child or qualifying young person) applies for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit but only for the period prescribed under that section, and in respect of whom a disabled child premium was included in the claimant’s applicable amount immediately before the death of that child or young person, or ceased to be included in the claimant’s applicable amount because of that child or young person’s death][F1346; or

(d)a young person who is in receipt of personal independence payment or who would, but for regulations made under section 86(1) (hospital in-patients) of the 2012 Act, be so in receipt provided that the young person continues to be a member of the family][F1347; or]

[F1348(da)a young person who is in receipt of adult disability payment or who would, but for regulation 28 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Adult Disability Payment) of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022, be so in receipt provided that the young person continues to be a member of the family; or]

[F1347(e)in receipt of armed forces independence payment.]

(2) The condition [F1349in sub-paragraph (1)(a) [F1350, (aa)] [F1351, (b), (d) [F1352, (da)] or (e)]] is not satisfied in respect of a child or young person—

(a)whose capital, if calculated in accordance with Part 5 of these Regulations in like manner as for the claimant, except as provided in regulation 44(1), would exceed £3,000; or

(b)who is a long-term patient.]

Textual Amendments

F1341Sch. 2 para. 14 substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(7)(g)

F1342Word in Sch. 2 para. 14(1) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), reg. 3(5)(b)(i)

F1344Words in Sch. 2 para. 14(1)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a)(iii)

F1345Sch. 2 para. 14(1)(c) and word inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), reg. 3(5)(b)(ii)

F1349Words in Sch. 2 para. 14(2) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), reg. 3(5)(b)(iii)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C102Sch. 2 para. 14(2)(a): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/316), arts. 1(3)(i), 21(2)(b)

C103Sch. 2 para. 14(2)(a): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(2)(b)

[F1353Carer premiumE+W+S

14ZA.(1) [F1354Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4),] the condition is that the claimant or his partner is, or both of them are, [F1355entitled to [F1208a carer’s allowance] under section 70 of the Contributions and Benefits Act] [F1356or carer support payment].

F1357(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

[F1358(3) Where a carer premium is awarded but—

(a)the person in respect of whose care the [F1208carer’s allowance] [F1359or carer support payment] has been awarded dies; or

(b)in any other case the person in respect of whom a carer premium has been awarded ceases to be entitled F1360...to [F1208a carer’s allowance] [F1359or carer support payment],

the condition for the award of the premium shall be treated as satisfied for a period of eight weeks from the relevant date specified in sub-paragraph (3A) below.

(3A) The relevant date for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) above shall be—

(a)[F1361where sub-paragraph (3)(a) applies,] the Sunday following the death of the person in respect of whose care [F1208a carer’s allowance] [F1362or carer support payment] has been awarded or the date of death if the death occurred on a Sunday;

F1363(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)in any other case, the date on which the person who has been entitled to [F1208a carer’s allowance] [F1362or carer support payment] ceases to be entitled to that allowance [F1364or payment].]

(4) Where a person who has been entitled to [F1208a carer’s allowance] [F1365or carer support payment] ceases to be entitled to that allowance [F1366or payment] and makes a claim for income support, the condition for the award of the carer premium shall be treated as satisfied for a period of eight weeks from the date on which–

[F1367(a)the person in respect of whose care the [F1208carer’s allowance] [F1365or carer support payment] has been awarded dies;

F1368(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(c)[F1369in any other case, the person who has been entitled to a carer’s allowance [F1365or carer support payment] ceased to be entitled to that allowance [F1366or payment].]]

Textual Amendments

[F1370Persons in receipt of concessionary paymentsE+W+S

14A.  For the purpose of determining whether a premium is applicable to a person [F1371under paragraphs 12 to 14ZA], any concessionary payment made to compensate that person for the non-payment of any benefit mentioned in those paragraphs shall be treated as if it were a payment of that benefit.]

[F1372Person in receipt of benefitE+W+S

14B.  For the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, a person shall be regarded as being in receipt of any benefit if, and only if, it is paid in respect of him and shall be so regarded only for any period in respect of which that benefit is paid.]

Textual Amendments

F1372Sch. 2 para. 14B inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 17

[F1373PART IVE+W+SWeekly amounts of premiums specified in part III

Textual Amendments

F1373Sch. 2 Pt. 4 table substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up Rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(5), Sch. 3

PremiumAmount

15.— 

(2)  Pensioner premium for persons to whom paragraph 9 applies.

(2) £190.70.

(2A)  Pensioner premium for persons to whom paragraph 9A applies.

(2A) £190.70.

(3) Higher pensioner premium for persons to whom paragraph 10 applies.

(3) £190.70.

(4) Disability Premium—

(a)where the claimant satisfies the condition in paragraph 11(1)(a);

(4) (a) £42.50;

(b)where the claimant satisfies the condition in paragraph 11(1)(b).

(b)£60.60.

(5) Severe Disability Premium—

(a)where the claimant satisfies the condition in paragraph 13(2)(a);

(5) (a) £81.50;

(b)where the claimant satisfies the condition in paragraph 13(2)(b)—

(b)

(i)if there is someone in receipt of a carer’s allowance [F1374or carer support payment,] or if he or any partner satisfies that condition only by virtue of paragraph 13(3A);

(i)£81.50;

(ii)if no-one is in receipt of such an allowance [F1375or payment].

(ii)£163.00.

(6) Disabled Child Premium.

(6) £80.01 in respect of each child or young person in respect of whom the condition specified in paragraph 14 is satisfied.

(7) Carer Premium.

(7) £45.60 in respect of each person who satisfied the condition specified in paragraph 14ZA.

(8) Enhanced disability premium where the conditions in paragraph 13A are satisfied.

(8) (a) £32.20 in respect of each child or young person in respect of whom the conditions specified in paragraph 13A are satisfied;

(b)£20.85 in respect of each person who is neither—

(i)a child or young person; nor

(ii)a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage,

in respect of whom the conditions specified in paragraph 13A are satisfied;

(c)£29.75 where the claimant is a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage and the conditions specified in paragraph 13A are satisfied in respect of a member of that couple or polygamous marriage.]

PART VE+W+Srounding of fractions

16.  Where income support is awarded for a period which is not a complete benefit week and the applicable amount in respect of that period results in an amount which includes a fraction of a penny that fraction shall be treated as a penny.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I78Sch. 2 para. 16 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Regulations 17(1)(e) and 18(1)(f)

[F1376SCHEDULE 3E+W+S HOUSING COSTS

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C105Sch. 3 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2015) by S.I. 2003/2382 (as amended by The Care Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/643), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 21(4)(b) (with art. 4))

Housing CostsE+W+S

1.(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, the housing costs applicable to claimant are those costs—

(a)which he or, where he is a member of a family, he or any member of that family is, in accordance with paragraph 2, liable to meet in respect of the dwelling occupied as the home which he or any other member of his family is treated as occupying, and

(b)which qualify [F1377under paragraph 17].

(2) In this Schedule—

“housing costs" means those costs to which sub-paragraph (1) refers;

F1378...

F1378...

F1379...

(3) For the purposes of this Schedule a disabled person is a person—

(a)in respect of whom a disability premium, a disabled child premium, a pensioner premium for persons aged 75 or over or a higher pensioner premium is included in his applicable amount or the applicable amount of a person living with him; or

(b)F1380... who, had he in fact been entitled to income support, would have had included in his applicable amount a disability premium, a disabled child premium, a pensioner premium for persons aged 75 or over or a higher pensioner premium [F1381; or

(c)who is disabled or severely disabled for the purposes of section 9(6) (maximum rate) of the Tax Credits Act 2002.]

[F1382(d)who–

(i)is in receipt of an employment and support allowance which includes an amount under section 2(2) F1383... or 4(4) F1383... of the Welfare Reform Act [F1384(component) or is a member of the work-related activity group] F1383...; or

(ii)would be entitled to an employment and support allowanceF1385..., but for the application of section 1A of that Act (duration of contributory allowance)][F1386; or

(e)who is entitled to an award of universal credit [F1387and has limited capability for work or limited capability for work and work-related activity as construed in accordance with regulations 39 and 40 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013.]]

(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3), a person shall not cease to be a disabled person on account of his being disqualified for receiving benefit or treated as capable of work by virtue of the operation of section l71E of the Contributions and Benefits Act (incapacity for work, disqualification etc.) [F1388or disqualified for receiving employment and support allowance or treated as not having limited capability for work in accordance with regulations made under section 18 of the Welfare Reform Act (disqualification)].

Textual Amendments

F1377Words in Sch. 3 para. 1(1)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(i)

F1379Words in Sch. 3 para. 1(2) omitted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(ii)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

[F1389[F1390Previous entitlement to income-based jobseeker’s allowance [F1391, income-related employment and support allowance] or state pension credit]E+W+S

1A.(1) Where a claimant or his partner was in receipt of or was treated as being in receipt of income-based jobseeker’s allowance [F1392or income-related employment and support allowance] not more than 12 weeks before one of them becomes entitled to income support or, where the claimant or his partner is a person to whom paragraph 14(2) or (8) (linking rules) refers, not more than 26 weeks before becoming so entitled and—

(a)the applicable amount for that allowance included an amount in respect of housing costs [F1393under paragraph 16 of Schedule 2] to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 [F1394or [F1395paragraph 18 of Schedule 6] to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations]; and

(b)the circumstances affecting the calculation of those housing costs remain unchanged since the last calculation of those costs,

the applicable amount in respect of housing costs for income support shall be the applicable amount in respect of those costs current when entitlement to income-based jobseeker’s allowance [F1392or income-related employment and support allowance] was last determined.

[F1396(1A) Where a claimant or his partner was in receipt of state pension credit not more than 12 weeks before one of them becomes entitled to income support or, where the claimant or his partner is a person to whom paragraph 14(2) or (8) (linking rules) refers, not more than 26 weeks before becoming so entitled, and—

(a)the appropriate minimum guarantee included an amount in respect of housing costs [F1397paragraph 13 of Schedule II] to the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002; and

(b)the circumstances affecting the calculation of those housing costs remain unchanged since the last calculation of those costs,

the applicable amount in respect of housing costs for income support shall be the amount applicable in respect of those costs current when entitlement to state pension credit was last determined.]

(2) Where, in the period since housing costs were last calculated for income-based jobseeker’s allowance [F1392or income-related employment and support allowance] [F1398or (as the case may be) state pension credit], there has been a change of circumstances, other than a reduction in the amount of an outstanding loan, which increases or reduces those costs, the amount to be met under this Schedule shall, for the purposes of the claim for income support, be recalculated so as to take account of that change.]

Textual Amendments

F1393Words in Sch. 3 para. 1A(1)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(iii)(aa)

F1395Words in Sch. 3 para. 1A(1)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(iii)(bb)

F1397Words in Sch. 3 para. 1A(1A)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(iv)

Circumstances in which a person is liable to meet housing costsE+W+S

2.(1) A person is liable to meet housing costs where—

(a)the liability falls upon him or his partner but not where the liability is to a member of the same household as the person on whom the liability falls;

(b)because the person liable to meet the housing costs is not meeting them, the claimant as to meet those costs in order to continue to live in the dwelling occupied as the home and it is reasonable in all the circumstances to treat the claimant as liable to meet those costs;

(c)he in practice shares the housing costs with other members of the household none of whom are close relatives either of the claimant or his partner, and

(i)one or more of those members is liable to meet those costs, and

(ii)it is reasonable in the circumstances to treat him as sharing responsibility.

(2) Where any one or more, but not all, members of the claimant’s family are affected by a trade dispute, the housing costs shall be treated as wholly the responsibility of those members of the family not so affected.

Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his homeE+W+S

3.(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, a person shall be treated as occupying as his home the dwelling normally occupied as his home by himself or, if he is a member of a family, by himself and his family and he shall not be treated as occupying any other dwelling as his home.

(2) In determining whether a dwelling is the dwelling normally occupied as the claimant’s home for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) regard shall be had to any other dwelling occupied by the claimant or by him and his family whether or not that other dwelling is in Great Britain.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), where a single claimant or a lone parent is a [F1399full-time student] or is on a training course and is liable to make payments (including payments of mortgage interest or, in Scotland, payments under heritable securities or, in either case, analogous payments) in respect of either (but not both) the dwelling which he occupies for the purpose of attending his course of study or his training course or, as the case may be, the dwelling which he occupies when not attending his course, he shall be treated as occupying as his home the dwelling in respect of which he is liable to make payments.

(4) A full-time student shall not be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home for any week of absence from it, other than an absence occasioned by the need to enter hospital for treatment, outside the period of study, if the main purpose of his occupation during the period of study would be to facilitate attendance on his course.

(5) Where a claimant has been required to move into temporary accommodation by reason of essential repairs being carried out to the dwelling normally occupied as his home and he is liable to make payments (including payments of mortgage interest or, in Scotland, payments under heritable securities or, in either case, analogous payments) in respect of either (but not both) the dwelling normally occupied or the temporary accommodation, he shall be treated as occupying as his home the dwelling in respect of which he is liable to make those payments.

(6) Where a person is liable to make payments in respect of two (but not more than two) dwellings, he shall be treated as occupying both dwellings as his home only—

(a)where he has left and remains absent from the former dwelling occupied as the home through fear of violence in that dwelling or by a former member of his family and it reasonable that housing costs should be met in respect of both his former dwelling and his present dwelling occupied as the home; or

(b)in the case of a couple or a member of a polygamous marriage where a partner is a [F1399full-time student] or is on a training course and it is unavoidable that he or they should occupy two separate dwellings and reasonable that housing costs should be met in respect of both dwellings; or

(c)in the case where a person has moved into a new dwelling occupied as the home, except where sub-paragraph (5) applies, for a period not exceeding four benefit weeks [F1400from the first day of the benefit week in which the move occurs] if his liability to make payments in respect of two dwellings is unavoidable.

(7) Where—

(a)a person has moved into a dwelling and was liable to make payments in respect of that dwelling before moving in; and

(b)he had claimed income support before moving in and either that claim has not yet been determined or it has been determined but an amount has not been included under this Schedule and if the claim has been refused a further claim has been made within four weeks of the date on which the claimant moved into the new dwelling occupied as the home; and

(c)the delay in moving into the dwelling in respect of which there was liability to make payments before moving in was reasonable and—

(i)that delay was necessary in order to adapt the dwelling to meet the disablement needs of the claimant or any member of his family; or

[F1401(ii)the move was delayed pending [F1402 local welfare provision or] the outcome of an application under Part 8 of the Contributions and Benefits Act for a social fund payment to meet a need arising out of the move or in connection with setting up the home in the dwelling, and—

(aa)a member of the claimant’s family is aged five or under,

(bb)the claimant’s applicable amount includes a premium under paragraph 9, 9A, 10, 11, 13 or 14 of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts), or

(cc)a child tax credit is paid for a member of the claimant’s family who is disabled or severely disabled for the purposes of section 9(6) (maximum rate) of the Tax Credits Act 2002; or]

(iii)the person became liable to make payments in respect of the dwelling while he was a patient or was in residential accommodation,

he shall be treated as occupying the dwelling as his home for any period not exceeding four weeks immediately prior to the date on which he moved into the dwelling and in respect of which he was liable to make payments.

(8) This sub-paragraph applies to a person who enters residential accommodation—

(a)for the purpose of ascertaining whether the accommodation suits his needs; and

(b)with the intention of returning to the dwelling which he normally occupies as his home should, in the event, the residential accommodation prove not to suit his needs,

and while in the accommodation, the part of the dwelling which he normally occupies as his home is not let, or as the case may be, sub-let to another person.

(9) A person to whom sub-paragraph (8) applies shall be treated as occupying the dwelling he normally occupies as his home during any period (commencing with the day he enters the accommodation) not exceeding l3 weeks in which the person is resident in the accommodation, but only in so far as the total absence from the dwelling does not exceed 52 weeks.

(10) A person, other than a person to whom sub-paragraph (11) applies, shall be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home throughout any period of absence not exceeding 13 weeks, if, and only if—

(a)he intends to return to occupy the dwelling as his home; and

(b)the part of the dwelling normally occupied by him has not been let or, as the case may be, sub-let to another person; and

(c)the period of absence is unlikely to exceed 13 weeks.

(11) This sub-paragraph applies to a person whose absence from the dwelling he normally occupies as his home is temporary and—

(a)he intends to return to occupy the dwelling as his home; and

(b)while the part of the dwelling which is normally occupied by him has not been let or, as the case may be, sub-let; and

(c)he is—

[F1403(i)detained in custody on remand pending trial or, as a condition of bail, required to reside—

(aa)in a dwelling, other than the dwelling he occupies as his home; or

(bb)in premises approved under [F1404section 13 of the Offender Management Act 2007],

or, detained pending sentence upon conviction, or]

(ii)resident in a hospital or similar institution as a patient, or

(iii)undergoing or, as the case may be, his partner or his dependent child is undergoing, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, medical treatment, or medically approved convalescence, in accommodation other than residential accommodation, or

(iv)following, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, a training course, or

(v)undertaking medically approved care of a person residing in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, or

(vi)undertaking the care of a child whose parent or guardian is temporarily absent from the dwelling normally occupied by that parent or guardian for the purpose of receiving medically approved care or medical treatment, or

(vii)a person who is, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, receiving medically approved care provided in accommodation other than residential accommodation, or

(viii)a [F1405full-time student] to whom sub-paragraph (3) or (6)(b) does not apply, or

(ix)a person other than a person to whom sub-paragraph (8) applies, who is receiving care provided in residential accommodation; or

(x)a person to whom sub-paragraph (6)(a) does not apply and who has left the dwelling he occupies as his home through fear of violence in that dwelling[F1406, or by a person] who was formerly a member of his family; and

(d)the period of his absence is unlikely to exceed a period of 52 weeks or, in exceptional circumstances, is unlikely substantially to exceed that period.

(12) A person to whom sub-paragraph (11) applies is to be treated as occupying the dwelling he normally occupies as his home during any period of absence not exceeding 52 weeks beginning with the first day of that absence.

(13) In this paragraph—

(a)“medically approved" means certified by a medical practitioner;

(b)“patient" means a person who is undergoing medical or other treatment as an inpatient in a hospital or similar institution;

[F1407(ba)“period of study” has the meaning given in regulation 61(1) (interpretation);]

[F1408(c)residential accommodation” means accommodation which is a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an an independent hospital;]

(d)“training course" means such a course of training or instruction provided wholly or partly by or on behalf of or in pursuance of arrangements made with, or approved by or on behalf of, [F1409Skills Development Scotland,] Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, a government department or the Secretary of State.

Textual Amendments

Housing costs not metE+W+S

4.(1) No amount may be met under the provisions of this Schedule—

(a)in respect of housing benefit expenditure; or

(b)where the claimant is [F1410living in care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital except where he is living in such a home or hospital] during a temporary absence from the dwelling he occupies as his home and in so far as they relate to temporary absences, the provisions of paragraph 3(8) to (12) apply to him during that absence.

F1411(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(4A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(4B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1411(12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Apportionment of housing costsE+W+S

5.(1) Where the dwelling occupied as the home is a composite hereditament and—

(a)before 1st April 1990 for the purposes of section 48(5) of the General Rate Act 1967 (reduction of rates on dwellings), it appeared to a rating authority or it was determined in pursuance of subsection (6) of section 48 of that Act that the hereditament, including the dwelling occupied as the home, was a mixed hereditament and that only a proportion of the rateable value of the hereditament was attributable to use for the purpose of a private dwelling; or

(b)in Scotland, before 1st April 1989 an assessor acting pursuant to section 45(1) of the Water (Scotland) Act 1980 (provision as to valuation roll) has apportioned the net annual value of the premises including the dwelling occupied as the home between she part occupied as a dwelling and the remainder,

the amounts applicable under this Schedule shall be such proportion of the amounts applicable in respect of the hereditament or premises as a whole as is equal to the proportion of the rateable value of the hereditament attributable to the part of the hereditament used for the purposes of a private tenancy or, in Scotland, the proportion of the net annual value of the premises apportioned to the part occupied as a dwelling house.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (1) and the following provisions of this paragraph, where the dwelling occupied as the home is a composite hereditament, the amount applicable under this Schedule shall be the relevant fraction of the amount which would otherwise be applicable under this Schedule in respect of the dwelling occupied as the home.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), the relevant fraction shall be obtained in accordance with the formula—

where— “A" is the current market value of the claimant’s interest in that part of the composite hereditament which is domestic property within the meaning of section 66 of the Act of 1988;

“B" is the current market value of the claimant’s interest in that part of the composite hereditament which is not domestic property within that section.

(4) In this paragraph—

“composite hereditament" means—

(a)as respects England and Wales, any hereditament which is shown as a composite hereditament in a local non-domestic rating list;

(b)as respects Scotland, any lands and heritages entered in the valuation roll which are part residential subjects within the meaning of section 26(1) of the Act of 1987;

“local non-domestic rating list" means a list compiled and maintained under section 41(1) of the Act of 1988;

“the Act of 1987" means the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc.(Scotland) Act 1987;

“the Act of 1988" means the Local Government Finance Act 1988.

(5) Where responsibility for expenditure which relates to housing costs met under this Schedule is shared, the amounts applicable shall be calculated by reference to the appropriate proportion of that expenditure for which the claimant is responsible.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C108Sch. 3 para. 5(3): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(i), 20(1)(3), Sch. 4

Existing housing costsE+W+S

F14126.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Transitional ProtectionE+W+S

F14137.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1414Housing costs]E+W+S

8.(1) F1415Subject to the provisions of this Schedule, the ... housing costs to be met in any particular case are—

(a)where the claimant has been [F1416entitled to] income support for a continuous period of 39 weeks or more, an amount—

F1417(i). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(ii)equal to any payments which qualify under paragraph 17(1)(a) to (c);

(b)in any other case, nil.

F1418(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1419(1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1420(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1420(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1420(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1420(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1417Sch. 3 para. 8(1)(a)(i) omitted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(vi)

F1418Sch. 3 para. 8(1A) omitted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(vi)

F1419Sch. 3 para. 8(1B) omitted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(vi)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C111Sch. 3 para. 8(1) applied (with modifications) (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Housing Costs Special Arrangements) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3195), regs. 1(2), 5(b) (with regs. 3, 7)

C113Sch. 3 para. 8(1)(b): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(i), 20(1)(3), Sch. 4

General exclusions from [F1421paragraph 8] E+W+S

9.(1) [F1422Paragraph 8] shall not apply where—

[F1423(a)the claimant’s partner has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit;]

(b)the housing costs are payments—

(i)under a co-ownership agreement;

(ii)under or relating to a tenancy or licence of a Crown tenant; or

(iii)where the dwelling occupied as the home is a tent, in respect of the tent and the site on which it stands.

(2) In a case falling within sub-paragraph (1), the housing costs to be met are—

(a)where head (a) of sub-paragraph (1) applies, an amount—

F1424(i). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(ii)equal to the payments which qualify under paragraph 17;

(b)where head (b) of sub-paragraph (1) applies, an amount equal to the payments which qualify under paragraph 17(1)(d) to (f).

The calculation for loansE+W+S

F142510.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1425Sch. 3 paras. 10-13 omitted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(viii)

General provisions applying to F1426... housing costsE+W+S

F142511.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1425Sch. 3 paras. 10-13 omitted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(viii)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C116Sch. 3 para. 11(5): sum confirmed for specified purposes (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/292), arts. 1(3)(i), 21(6)

The standard rateE+W+S

F142512.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1425Sch. 3 paras. 10-13 omitted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(viii)

Excessive Housing CostsE+W+S

F142513.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1425Sch. 3 paras. 10-13 omitted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(viii)

Linking ruleE+W+S

14.(1) F1427...For the purposes of this Schedule—

(a)a person shall be treated as being in receipt of income support during the following periods—

(i)any period in respect of which it was subsequently [F1428determined] that he was entitled to income support; and

(ii)any period of 12 weeks or less [F1429or, as the case may be, 52 weeks or less,] in respect of which he was not in receipt of income support and which fell immediately between periods in respect of which F1430...;

[F1431(aa)he was, or was treated as being, in receipt of income support,

(bb)he was treated as entitled to income support for the purpose of sub-paragraph (5) or (5A) , or

(cc)(i) above applies;]

(b)a person shall be treated as not being in receipt of income support during any period other than a period to which (a)(ii) above applies in respect of which it is subsequently [F1432determined] that he was not so entitled;

(c)where—

(i)the claimant was a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage; and

(ii)his partner was, in respect of a past period, in receipt of income support for himself and the claimant; and

(iii)the claimant is no longer a member of that couple or polygamous marriage; and

(iv)the claimant made his claim for income support within twelve weeks [F1433or, as the case may be, 52 weeks,] of ceasing to be a member of that couple or polygamous marriage,

he shall be treated as having been in receipt of income support for the same period as his former partner had been or had been treated, for the purposes of this Schedule, as having been;

(d)where the claimant’s partner’s applicable amount was determined in accordance with paragraph 1(1) (single claimant) or paragraph 1(2) (lone parent) of Schedule 2 applicable amounts) in respect of a past period, provided that the claim was made within twelve weeks [F1434or, as the case may be, 52 weeks,] of the claimant and his partner becoming one of a couple or polygamous marriage, the claimant shall be treated as having been in receipt of income support for the same period as his partner had been or had been treated, for the purposes of this Schedule, as having been;

(e)where the claimant is a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage and his partner was, in respect of a past period, in receipt of income support for himself and the claimant, and the claimant has begun to receive income support as a result of an election by the members of the couple or polygamous marriage, he shall be treated as having been in receipt of income support for the same period as his partner had been or had been treated, for the purposes of this Schedule, as having been;

[F1435(ee)where the claimant—

(i)is a member of a couple or a polygamous marriage and the claimant’s partner was, immediately before the participation by any member of that couple or polygamous marriage in an employment programme specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(ii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996[F1436, in the Intensive Activity Period specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(iv) of those Regulations F1437...], in receipt of income support and his applicable amount included an amount for the couple or for the partners of the polygamous marriage; and

(ii)has, immediately after that participation in that programme, begun to receive income support as a result of an election under regulation 4(3) of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 by the members of the couple or polygamous marriage,

the claimant shall be treated as having been in receipt of income support for the same period as his partner had been or had been treated, for the purposes of this Schedule, as having been;]

(f)where—

(i)the claimant was a member of a family of a person (not being a former partner) entitled to income support and at least one other member of that family was a child or young person; and

(ii)the claimant becomes a member of another family which includes that child or young person; and

(iii)the claimant made his claim for income support within 12 weeks [F1438or, as the case may be, 52 weeks,] of the date on which the person entitled to income support mentioned in (i) above ceased to be so entitled,

the claimant shall be treated as being in receipt of income support for the same period as that person had been or had been treated, for the purposes of this Schedule, as having been.

F1439(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) For the purposes of this Schedule, where a claimant has ceased to be entitled to income support because he or his partner is participating in arrangements for training made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 or attending a course at an employment rehabilitation centre established under that section [F1440or under the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990], he shall be treated as if he had been in receipt of income support for the period during which he or his partner was participating in such arrangements or attending such a course.

[F1441(3ZA) For the purposes of this Schedule, a claimant who has ceased to be entitled to income support because—

(a)that claimant or his partner was participating in an employment programme specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(ii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 [F1442, in the Intensive Activity Period specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(iv) of those RegulationsF1443...] [F1444or in an employment zone scheme]; and

(b)in consequence of such participation the claimant or his partner was engaged in remunerative work or had an income in excess of the claimant’s applicable amount as prescribed in Part IV,

shall be treated as if he had been in receipt of income support for the period during which he or his partner was participating in that programme [F1445or activity].]

[F1446(3A) Where, for the purposes of sub-paragraphs [F1447(1), (3) and (3ZA)], a person is treated as being in receipt of income support, for a certain period, he shall[F1448, subject to sub-paragraph (3AA),] be treated as being entitled to income support for the same period.]

F1449(3AA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1450(3B) For the purposes of this Schedule, in determining whether a person is entitled to or to be treated as entitled to income support, entitlement to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance immediately before a period during which that person or his partner is participating in an employment programme specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(ii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 [F1451, in the Intensive Activity Period specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(iv) of those Regulations F1452...] shall be treated as entitlement to income support for the purposes of any requirement that a person is, or has been, entitled to income support for any period of time.]

(4) For the purposes of this Schedule, sub-paragraph (5) applies where a person is not entitled to income support by reason only that he has—

(a)capital exceeding [F1453£16,000]; or

(b)income [F1454equal to or] exceeding the applicable amount which applies in his case, or

(c)both capital exceeding [F1455£16,000] and income exceeding the applicable amount which applies in his case.

(5) A person to whom sub-paragraph (4) applies shall be treated as entitled to income support throughout any period of not [F1456more] than 39 weeks which comprises only days—

(a)on which he is entitled to unemployment benefit, [F1457a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance,] statutory sick pay [F1458, incapacity benefit or contributory employment and support allowance] ; or

(b)on which he is, although not entitled to any of the benefits mentioned in head (a) above, entitled to be credited with earnings equal to the lower earnings limit for the time being in force in accordance with [F1459regulation 8A or 8B] of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations 1975; or

(c)in respect of which the claimant is treated as being in receipt of income support.

[F1460(5A) Subject to sub-paragraph (5B), a person to whom sub-paragraph (4) applies and who is either a person to whom [F1461paragraph 4 or 5 of Schedule 1B (persons caring for another person) applies] or a lone parent shall, for the purposes of this Schedule, be treated as entitled to income support throughout any period of not more than 39 weeks following the refusal of a claim for income support made by or on behalf of that person.]

[F1460(5B) Sub-paragraph (5A) shall not apply in relation to a person mentioned in that sub-paragraph who, during the period referred to in that sub-paragraph—

(a)is engaged in, or is treated as engaged in, remunerative work or whose partner is engaged in, or is treated as engaged in, remunerative work;

[F1462(b)is a [F1463full-time student], other than one who would qualify for income support under regulation 4ZA(3) (prescribed categories of person);]

(c)is temporarily absent from Great Britain, other than in the circumstances specified in regulation 4(2) and (3) (temporary absence from Great Britain).]

(6) In a case where—

(a)[F1464sub-paragraphs (5) and (5A) apply] solely by virtue of sub-paragraph (4)(b); and

(b)the claimant’s income includes payments under a policy taken out to insure against the risk that the policy holder is unable to meet [F1465any payment which qualifies under paragraph 17],

[F1466sub-paragraphs (5) and (5A)] shall have effect as if for the words “throughout any period of not [F1467more] than 39 weeks" there shall be substituted the words “throughout any period that payments are made in accordance with the terms of the policy".

F1468(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(8) This sub-paragraph applies—

(a)to a person who claims income support, or in respect of whom income support is claimed, and who—

(i)received payments under a policy of insurance taken out to insure against loss of employment, and those payments are exhausted; and

(ii)had a previous award of income support where the applicable amount included an amount by way of housing costs; and

(b)where the period in respect of which the previous award of income support was payable ended not more than 26 weeks before the date the claim was made.

(9) Where sub-paragraph (8) applies, in determining—

F1469(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)for the purposes of paragraph 8(1) whether a claimant has been [F1470entitled to] income support for a continuous period of 39 weeks or more,

any week falling between the date of the termination of the previous award and the date of the new claim shall be ignored.

[F1471(10) In the case of a person who is a welfare to work beneficiary, the references in sub-paragraphs (1)(a)(ii), [F1472(1)(c)(iv),] (1)(d) and (1)(f)(iii) to a period of 12 weeks shall be treated as references to a period of [F1473104 weeks].]

[F1474(11) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a)(ii), (1)(c)(iv), (1)(d) and (1)(f)(iii), the relevant period shall be—

(a)52 weeks in the case of a person to whom sub-paragraph (12) applies;

(b)subject to sub-paragraph (10), 12 weeks in any other case.

(12) This sub-paragraph applies, subject to sub-paragraph (13), in the case of a person who, on or after 9th April 2001, has ceased to be entitled to income support because he or his partner—

(a)has commenced employment as an employed earner or as a self-employed earner or has increased the hours in which he is engaged in such employment;

(b)is taking active steps to establish himself in employment as an employed earner or as a self-employed earner under any scheme for assisting persons to become so employed which is mentioned in regulation 19(1)(r)(i) to (iii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996; or

(c)is participating in—

(i)a New Deal option;

(ii)an employment zone programme; or

(iii)the self-employment route; [F1475or

(iv)the Intensive Activity Period specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(iv) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 F1476...,]

and, as a consequence, he or his partner was engaged in remunerative work or had income [F1477equal to or] in excess of the applicable amount as prescribed in Part IV.

(13) Sub-paragraph (12) shall only apply to the extent that immediately before the day on which the person ceased to be entitled to income support, his housing costs were being met in accordance with paragraph F1478... 8(1)(a) or would have been so met but for any non-dependant deduction under paragraph 18.]

[F1479(14) For the purpose of determining whether the linking rules set out in this paragraph apply in a case where a claimant’s former partner was entitled to state pension credit, any reference to income support in this Schedule shall be taken to include also a reference to state pension credit.]

[F1480(15) For the purpose of determining whether the linking rules set out in this paragraph apply in a case where [F1481a claimant, a claimant’s partner or] a claimant, a claimant’s partner or a claimant's former partner was entitled to income-related employment and support allowance, any reference to income support in this Schedule shall be taken to include also a reference to income-related employment and support allowance.]

Textual Amendments

F1449Sch. 3 para. 14(3AA) omitted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(ix)(aa)

F1453Word in Sch. 3 para. 14(4)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2465), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(7)

F1454Words in Sch. 3 para. 14(4)(b) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), reg. 3(6)(a)

F1455Word in Sch. 3 para. 14(4)(c) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2465), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(7)

F1465Words in Sch. 3 para. 14(6)(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(ix)(bb)

F1475Sch. 3 para. 14(12)(c)(iv) and word added (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (New Deal) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1029), regs. 1(2), 14(b)(iv)

F1477Words in Sch. 3 para. 14(12)(c) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), reg. 3(6)(a)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C117Sch. 3 para. 14(9) applied (with modifications) (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Housing Costs Special Arrangements) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3195), regs. 1(2), 5(d)(i) (with regs. 3, 7)

C118Sch. 3 para. 14(9) applied (with modifications) (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Housing Costs Special Arrangements) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3195), regs. 1(2), 5(d)(ii) (with regs. 3, 7)

Loans on residential propertyE+W+S

F148215.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Loans for repairs and improvements to the dwelling occupied as the homeE+W+S

F148216.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1483Housing costs] E+W+S

17.(1) Subject to the deduction specified in sub-paragraph (2) and the reductions applicable in sub-paragraph (5), there shall be met under this paragraph the amounts, calculated on a weekly basis, in respect of the following housing costs—

(a)payments by way of rent or ground rent relating to a long tenancy F1484...;

(b)service charges;

(c)payments by way of rent charge within the meaning of section 1 of the Rent charges Act 1977;

(d)payments under a co-ownership scheme;

(e)payments under or relating to a tenancy or licence of a Crown tenant;

(f)where the dwelling occupied as the home is a tent, payments in respect of the tent and the site on which it stands.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the deductions to be made from the weekly amounts to be met under this paragraph are—

(a)where the costs are inclusive of any of the items mentioned in [F1485paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006] (payment in respect of fuel charges), the deductions prescribed in that paragraph unless the claimant provides evidence on which the actual or approximate amount of the service charge for fuel may be estimated, in which case the estimated amount;

(b)where the costs are inclusive of ineligible service charges within the meaning of [F1486paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006] (ineligible service charges) the amounts attributable to those ineligible service charges or where that amount is not separated from or separately identified within the housing costs to be met under this paragraph, such part of the payments made in respect of those housing costs which are fairly attributable to the provision of those ineligible services having regard to the costs of comparable services;

(c)any amount for repairs and improvements, and for this purpose the expression “repairs and improvements" has [F1487the meaning in sub-paragraph (6)].

(3) Where arrangements are made for the housing costs, which are met under this paragraph and which are normally paid for a period of 52 weeks, to be paid instead for a period of 53 weeks, or to be paid irregularly, or so that no such costs are payable or collected in certain periods, or so that the costs for different periods in the year are of different amounts, the weekly amount shall be the amount payable for the year divided by 52.

(4) Where the claimant or a member of his family—

(a)pays for reasonable repairs or redecorations to be carried out to the dwelling they occupy; and

(b)that work was not the responsibility of the claimant or any member of his family; and

(c)in consequence of that work being done, the costs which are normally met under this paragraph are waived, then those costs shall, for a period not exceeding 8 weeks, be treated as payable.

(5) Where in England and Wales an amount calculated on a weekly basis in respect of housing costs specified in sub-paragraph (1)(e) (Crown tenants) includes water charges, that amount shall be reduced—

(a)where the amount payable in respect of water charges is known, by that amount;

(b)in any other case, by the amount which would be the likely weekly water charge had the property not been occupied by a Crown tenant.

[F1488(6) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(c), “repairs and improvements” means any of the following measures undertaken with a view to maintaining the fitness of the dwelling for human habitation or, where the dwelling forms part of a building, any part of a building containing that dwelling—

(a)provision of a fixed bath, shower, wash basin, sink or lavatory, and necessary associated plumbing, including the provision of hot water not connected to a central heating system;

(b)repairs to existing heating system;

(c)damp proof measures;

(d)provision of ventilation and natural lighting;

(e)provision of drainage facilities;

(f)provision of facilities for preparing and cooking food;

(g)provision of insulation of the dwelling occupied as the home;

(h)provision of electric lighting and sockets;

(i)provision of storage facilities for fuel or refuse;

(j)repairs of unsafe structural defects;

(k)adapting a dwelling for the special needs of a disabled person; or

(l)provision of separate sleeping accommodation for persons of different sexes aged 10 or over but under the age of 20 who live with the claimant and for whom the claimant or the claimant’s partner is responsible.]

Non-dependant deductionsE+W+S

18.(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, the following deductions from the amount to be met under the preceding paragraphs of this Schedule in respect of housing costs shall be made—

[F1489(a)in respect of a non-dependant aged 18 or over who is engaged in any remunerative work, [F1490£124.55];

(b)in respect of a non-dependant aged 18 or over to whom paragraph (a) does not apply, [F1491£19.30].]

(2) In the case of a non-dependant aged 18 or over to whom sub-paragraph (1)(a) applies because he is in [F1492remunerative] work, where the claimant satisfies the [F1493Secretary of State] that the non-dependant’s gross weekly income is—

(a)less than [F1494£176.00]the deduction to be made under this paragraph shall be the deduction specified in sub-paragraph (1)(b);

(b)not less than [F1495£176.00]but less than [F1496£256.00]the deduction to be made under this paragraph shall be [F1497£44.40];

(c)not less than [F1498£256.00]but less than [F1499£334.00]the deduction to be made under this paragraph shall be [F1500£60.95];

[F1501(d)not less than [F1502£334.00]but less than [F1503£445.00]the deduction to be made under this paragraph shall be [F1504£99.65];

(e)not less than [F1505£445.00]but less than [F1506£554.00]the deduction to be made under this paragraph shall be [F1507£113.50].]

[F1508(2A) Where a non-dependant deduction is being made under the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017, the amount of the deduction under sub-paragraph (1) or (2) is to be reduced by an amount equal to that non-dependant deduction.]

(3) Only one deduction shall be made under this paragraph in respect of a couple or, as the case may be, the members of a polygamous marriage, and where, but for this sub-paragraph, the amount that would fall to be deducted in respect of one member of a couple or polygamous marriage is higher than the amount (if any) that would fall to be deducted in respect of the other, or any other, member, the higher amount shall be deducted.

(4) In applying the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) in the case of a couple or, as the case may be, a polygamous marriage, regard shall be had, for the purpose of sub-paragraph (2), to be couple’s or, as the case may be, all the members of the polygamous marriage’s, joint weekly income.

(5) Where a person is a non-dependant in respect of more than one joint occupier of a dwelling (except where the joint occupiers are a couple of members of a polygamous marriage), the deduction in respect of that non-dependant shall be apportioned between the joint occupiers (the amount so apportioned being rounded to the nearest penny) having regard to the number of joint occupiers and the proportion of the housing costs in respect of the dwelling occupied as the home payable by each of them.

(6) No deduction shall be made in respect of any non-dependants occupying the dwelling occupied as the home of the claimant, if the claimant or any partner of his is—

(a)[F1509severely sight impaired or blind or treated as severely sight impaired or blind] by virtue of paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 (additional condition for the higher pensioner and disability premiums); or

(b)receiving in respect of himself either—

(i)an attendance allowance; F1510...

(ii)the care component of the disability living allowance[F1511; F1512...

[F1513(iia)the care component of child disability payment;]

(iii)the daily living component of personal independence payment]F1514...

[F1515(iiia)the daily living component of adult disability payment; or]

[F1516(iv)armed forces independence payment.]

(7) No deduction shall be made in respect of a non-dependant—

(a)if, although he resides with the claimant, it appears to the [F1517Secretary of State] that the dwelling occupied as his home is normally elsewhere; or

(b)if he is in receipt of a training allowance paid in connection with [F1518youth training] established under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990; or

(c)if he is a full-time student during a period of study or, if he is not in remunerative work, during a recognised summer vacation appropriate to his course; or

(d)if he is aged under 25 and in receipt of income support [F1519or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance]; or

(e)in respect of whom a deduction in the calculation of a rent rebate or allowance falls to be made under [F1520 regulation 74 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006] (non-dependant deductions); or

(f)to whom, but for paragraph (2C) of regulation 3 (definition of non-dependant) paragraph (2B) of that regulation would apply; or

(g)if he is not residing with the claimant because he has been a patient for a period in excess of [F152152] weeks, or is a prisoner, and for these purposes—

(i)[F1522patient” has the meaning given in paragraph 3(13)(b) and “prisoner” has the meaning given in regulation 21(3); and

(ii)in calculating a period of 52 weeks as a patient, any two or more distinct periods separated by one or more intervals each not exceeding 28 days shall be treated as a single period; or]

[F1523(h)if he is in receipt of state pension credit.]

[F1524(i)he is aged less than 25 and is in receipt of [F1525income-related] employment and support allowance [F1526and is not a member of the work-related activity group or a member of the support group; or].]

[F1527(j)if he is aged less than 25 and is entitled to an award of universal credit where the award is calculated on the basis that he does not have any earned income.]

(8) In the case of a non-dependant to whom sub-paragraph (2) applies because he is in [F1528remunerative] work, there shall be disregarded from his gross income—

(a)any attendance allowance [F1529, disability living allowance [F1530, child disability payment] [F1531, personal independence payment, adult disability payment]] [F1532or armed forces independence payment] received by him;

(b)[F1533any Grenfell Tower payment [F1534, child abuse payment [F1535, Windrush payment or Post Office compensation payment]] or] any payment made under [F1536or by] the Macfarlane Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments)(No.2) Trust, the Fund, the Eileen Trust [F1537, MFET Limited][F1538, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation] [F1539, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F1540, an approved blood scheme] [F1541, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund] [F1542, the National Emergencies Trust] or the Independent Living [F1543Fund (2006)] which, had his income fallen to be calculated under regulation 40 (calculation of income other than earnings), would have been disregarded under paragraph 21 of Schedule 9 (income in kind); and

(c)any payment which, had his income fallen to be calculated under regulation 40 would have been disregarded under paragraph 39 of Schedule 9 (payments made under certain trusts and certain other payments).

[F1544(d)any payment made under or by a trust, established for the purpose of giving relief and assistance to disabled persons whose disabilities were caused by the fact that during their mother’s pregnancy she had taken a preparation containing the drug known as Thalidomide, and which is approved by the Secretary of State.]

[F1545(9) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (7)(j), “earned income” has the meaning given in regulation 52 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013.]

Textual Amendments

F1490Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(1)(a) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(a)

F1491Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(1)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(b)

F1494Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(a) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(c)

F1495Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(d)(ii)

F1496Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(d)(iii)

F1497Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(d)(i)

F1498Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(c) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(e)(ii)

F1499Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(c) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(e)(iii)

F1500Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(c) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(e)(i)

F1502Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(d) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(f)(ii)

F1503Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(d) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(f)(iii)

F1504Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(d) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(f)(i)

F1505Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(e) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(g)(ii)

F1506Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(e) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(g)(iii)

F1507Sum in Sch. 3 para. 18(2)(e) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/242), arts. 1(3)(h), 20(6)(g)(i)

F1508Sch. 3 para. 18(2A) inserted (with effect in accordance with regs.19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 2(d)(xii)

F1509Words in Sch. 3 para. 18(6)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(b)

F1521Word in Sch. 3 para. 18(7)(g) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1195), regs. 1(c), 3(4)

F1522Sch. 3 para. 18(7)(g)(i)(ii) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), reg. 4(4)

Rounding of fractionsE+W+S

19.  Where any calculation made under this Schedule results in a fraction of a penny, that fraction shall be treated as a penny.]

Regulations 17(1)(g), 18(1)(h) and 71(1)(a)(v) and (d)(iv)

F1546SCHEDULE 3AE+W+SPROTECTED SUM

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Regulations 17(1)(g), 18(1)(h) and 71(1)(a)(v) and (d)(iv)

F1547SCHEDULE 3BE+W+SPROTECTED SUM

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Regulation 2A(1)(b)

SCHEDULE 3CE+W+S THE GREATER LONDON AREA

F1548...

F1548. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Regulation 19

F1549SCHEDULE 4E+W+S

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Regulation 20

F1550SCHEDULE 5E+W+S

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1550Sch. 5 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(c) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 12

Regulation 20(2) paragraph 5 of Schedule 5

SCHEDULE 6E+W+SBOARD AND LODGING AREAS

F1551...E+W+S

[F1552Regulations 21 and 21AA]

SCHEDULE 7E+W+SAPPLICABLE AMOUNTS IN SPECIAL CASES

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C122Sch. 7 applied (with modifications) (1.4.2015) by S.I. 2003/2382 (as amended by The Care Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/643), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 21(4)(c) (with art. 4))

Commencement Information

I79Sch. 7 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Column (1)Column (2)

Patients

F15531.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F15531.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F15542.  . . .

F15542.  . . .

[F1555Persons serving a sentence of imprisonment detained in hospital

2A.   A person serving a sentence of imprisonment detained in hospital.]

[F15562A.  Nil.]

2B.  F1557. . .

F1557. . .

3.  F1558F1559. . .

4.  F1560. . .

F1560. . .

5.  F1561. . .

F1561. . .
Claimants without accommodation

6.  A claimant who is without accommodation.

6.  The amount applicable to him under regulation 17[F1562(1)](a) only.

Members of religious orders

7.  A claimant who is a member of and fully maintained by a religious order.

7.  Nil.

Prisoners

8.  A person—

(a)except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, who is a prisoner;

8.— 

(a)Nil;

(b)who is detained in custody pending trial or sentence following conviction by a court.

(b)only such amount, if any, as may be applicable under regulation 17[F1562(1)](e).

Specified cases of temporarily separated couples

9.  A claimant who is a member of a couple and who is temporarily separated from his partner [F1563where—

(a)one member of the couple is–

[F1564(i)not a patient but is residing in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital, or]

(iii)resident in premises used for the rehabilitation of alcoholics or drug addicts, or

(iv)resident in accommodation provided under section 3 of and Part II of the Schedule to, the Polish Resettlement Act 1947 (provision of accommodation in camps), or

(v)participating in arrangements for training made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 [F1565or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990] or attending a course at an employment rehabilitation centre established under that section [F1566of the 1973 Act], where the course requires him to live away from the dwelling occupied as the home, or

(vi)in a probation or bail hostel approved for the purpose by the Secretary of State; and

(b)the other member of the couple is–

(i)living in the dwelling occupied as the home, or

(ii)a patient, or

[F1567(iii)residing in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital.]]

9.  Either—

(a)the amount applicable to him as a member of a couple under regulation 17[F1562(1)]; or

(b)the aggregate of his applicable amount and that of his partner assessed under the provisions of these Regulations as if each of them were a single claimant, or a lone parent,

whichever is the greater.

Polygamous marriages where one or more partners are temporarily separated

10.  A claimant who is a member of a polygamous marriage and who is temporarily separated from a partner of his, where one of them is living in the home while the other member is—

[F1568(a)not a patient but is residing in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital, or]

(c)F1569. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d)resident in premises used for the rehabilitation of alcoholics or drug addicts; or

(e)attending a course of training or instruction provided or approved by the [F1570Secretary of State for Education and Employment] where the course requires him to live away from home; or

(f)in a probation or bail hostel approved for the purpose by the Secretary of State.

10.  Either—

(a)the amount applicable to the members of the polygamous marriage under regulation 18; or

(b)the aggregate of the amount applicable for the members of the polygamous marriage who remain in the home under regulation 18 and the amount applicable in respect of those members not in the home calculated as if each of them were a single claimant, or a lone parent,

whichever is the greater.

[F1571Single claimants temporarily in local authority accommodation

10A.  F1572

. . .
F1572 . . .
Couples and members of polygamous marriages where one member is or all are temporarily in local authority accommodation

10B.  F1573

. . .
F1573 . . .
Lone parents who are in residential accommodation temporarily]

10C.  F1574

. . .
F1574. . .
[F1575Lone parents who are in residential care homes or nursing homes temporarily]

10D.  F1576. . .

F1576. . .
Couples where one member is abroad

11.  [F1577Subject to paragraph 11A,] a claimant who is a member of a couple and whose partner is temporarily not present in [F1578United Kingdom.]

11.  For the first four weeks of that absence, the amount applicable to them as a couple under regulation 17[F1562(1)], F1579... [F1580or 21] as the case may be and thereafter the amount applicable to the claimant in Great Britain under regulation 17[F1562(1)] F1579... [F1580or 21] as the case may be as if the claimant were a single claimant or, as the case may be, a lone parent.

[F1581Couple or member of couple taking child or young person abroad for treatment

11A.(1) A claimant who is a member of a couple where either—

(a)he or his partner is, or,

(b)both he and his partner are

absent from the United Kingdom in [F1582in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2).

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the specified circumstances are—

(a)in respect of a claimant, those in regulation 4(3)(a) to (d);

(b)in respect of a claimant’s partner, as if regulation 4(3)(a) to (d) applied to that partner.]

11A.  For the first 8 weeks of that absence, the amount applicable to the claimant under regulation 17(1)F1583... or 21, as the case may be, and, thereafter, if the claimant is in Great Britain the amount applicable to him under regulation 17(1)F1583... or 21, as the case may be, as if the claimant were a single claimant, or, as the case may be, a lone parent.]

[F1584Polygamous marriages where any member is abroad

12.  Subject to paragraph 12A, a claimant who is a member of a polygamous marriage where—

(a)he or one of his partners is, or

(b)he and one or more of his partners, are or

(c)two or more of his partners are,

temporarily absent from the United Kingdom;

12.  For the first four weeks of that absence, the amount applicable to the claimant under regulations 18 to 21, as the case may be, and thereafter, if the claimant is in Great Britain the amount applicable to him under regulations 18 to 21, as the case may be, as if any member of the polygamous marriage not in the United Kingdom were not a member of the marriage.]

[F1585Polygamous marriage: taking child or young person abroad for treatment

12A.(1) A claimant who is a member of a polygamous marriage where—

(a)he or one of his partners is,

(b)he and one or more of his partners, are or

(c)two or more of his partners are,

absent from the United Kingdom in [F1586in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2).

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the specified circumstances are—

(a)in respect of a claimant, those in regulation 4(3)(a) to (d);

(b)in respect of a claimant’s partner or partners, as the case may be, as if regulation 4(3)(a) to (d) applied to that partner or those partners.]

12A.  For the first 8 weeks of that absence, the amount applicable to the claimant under regulations 18 to 21, as the case may be, and thereafter, if the claimant is in Great Britain the amount applicable to him under regulations 18 to 21, as the case may be, as if any member of the polygamous marriage not in the United Kingdom were not a member of the marriage.]

[F1587Persons in residential accommodation]

13.  F1588

. . .
F1588. . .
[F1589Polish Resettlement]

13A.  F1590

. . .
F1590. . .
[F1591Polish resettlement: Persons temporarily absent from accommodation]

13B.  F1592

. . .

13B.  F1592

. . .
Polish Resettlement

14.  F1593

. . .
F1593. . .
Resettlement Units

15.  F1594

. . .
F1594. . .
Persons temporarily absent from board and lodging accommodation or a hostel, residential care or nursing home

16.  F1595. . .

F1595. . .
[F1596 Partner of a person subject to immigration control

16A.(a) A claimant who is the partner of a person subject to immigration control.

(b)Where regulation 18 (polygamous marriages) applies and the claimant is a person–

(i)who is not subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act; or

(ii)to whom section 115 of that Act does not apply by virtue of regulation 2 of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000; and

(iii)who is a member of a couple and one or more of his partners is subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of that Act and section 115 of that Act applies to her for the purposes of exclusion from entitlement to income support.]

[F159616A.(a) [F1597 The amount applicable in respect of the claimant only under regulation 17(1)(a) plus that in respect of any child or young person who is a member of his family and who is not a person subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act, and to whom section 115 of that Act does not apply for the purposes of exclusion from entitlement to income support, any amounts which may be applicable to him under regulation 17(1)(b), (c) or (d) plus the amount applicable to him under regulation 17(1)(e), (f) and (g) or, as the case may be, regulation 21. ]

[F1597The amount applicable in respect of the claimant only under regulation 17(1)(a), any amount which may be applicable to him under regulation 17(1)(d) plus the amount applicable to him under regulation 17(1)(e), (f) and (g) or, as the case may be, regulation 21.]

(b)[F1597 The amount determined in accordance with that regulation or regulation 21 in respect of the claimant and any partners of his and any child or young person for whom he or his partner is treated as responsible, who are not subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act and to whom section 115 of that Act does not apply for the purposes of exclusion from entitlement to income support.]

[F1597The amount determined in accordance with that regulation or regulation 21 in respect of the claimant and any partners of his who are not subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act and to whom section 115 of that Act does not apply for the purposes of exclusion from entitlement to income support.]]

Persons from abroad

17.   person from abroad

17.  nil;

Persons in residential care or nursing homes who become patients

18.  F1598. . .

F1598. . .

Claimants entitled to the disability premium for a past period

19.  A claimant—

(a)whose time for claiming income support has been extended under regulation [F159919(4)] of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987 F1600 (time for claiming benefit); and

(b)whose partner was entitled to income support in respect of the period beginning with the day on which the claimant's claim is treated as made under [F1601regulation 6(3) of those Regulations] and [F1602ending with the day before the day] on which the claim is actually made; and

(c)who satisfied the condition in [F1603paragraph 11(1)(b)] of Schedule 2 and the additional condition referred to in that paragraph and specified in paragraph 12(1)(b) of that Schedule in respect of that period.

19.  The amount only of the disability premium applicable by virtue of [F1603paragraph 11(1)(b)] of Schedule 2 as specified in paragraph 15(4)(b) of that Schedule.

[F1604Persons who have commenced remunerative work

19A.  A person to whom regulation 6(5) (persons not treated as in remunerative work) applies.]

[F160519A.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the lowest of either—

(a)the amount determined in accordance with—

(i)Schedule 3 (housing costs); F1606...

(ii)as the case may be, Schedule 2 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (housing costs), [F1607or

(iii)as the case may be, Schedule 6 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (housing costs),]

which was applicable to the claimant or his partner immediately before he or his partner commenced the remunerative work referred to in regulation 6(5)(a); or

(b)the amount of income support [F1608, income-related employment and support allowance ] or, as the case may be, income-based jobseeker’s allowance which the claimant or his partner was entitled to in the benefit week immediately before the benefit week in which he or his partner commenced the remunerative work referred to in regulation 6(5)(a) or, where he or his partner was in receipt of a training allowance in that benefit week, the amount of income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance which he would have been entitled to in that week had he not been in receipt of a training allowance.

(2) Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) shall prevent any adjustment being made to the amount referred to in (a) or, as the case may be, (b) of that sub-paragraph during the period referred to in regulation 6(6), in order to reflect changes during that period to the amounts prescribed in Schedule 2 F1609... or in this Schedule or to reflect changes in circumstances during that period relating to the matters specified to in sub-paragraph (3).

(3) The changes in circumstances referred to in sub-paragraph (2) are changes to the amount of housing costs to be met in accordance with Schedule 3 in the claimant’s case occasioned by—

(a)the claimant becoming entitled to income support for a continuous period of 26 weeks or more;

(b)a change to the standard interest rate; or

(c)any non-dependant deduction becoming applicable, or ceasing to be applicable.

(4) In sub-paragraph (1), a reference to the claimant or his partner being entitled to and in receipt of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or to an amount being applicable to either of them under the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 shall include a reference to the claimant and his partner being entitled to, and in receipt of, a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance and to an amount being applicable to that couple under those Regulations.]

Rounding of fractions

20.  Where any calculation under this Schedule or as a result of income support being awarded for a period less than one complete benefit week results in a fraction of a penny that fraction shall be treated as a penny.

Textual Amendments

F1553Sch. 7 para. 1 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), reg. 4(5)(a)

F1554Sch. 7 para. 2 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), reg. 4(5)(a)

F1556Sch. 7 para. 2A substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), reg. 4(5)(b)(ii)

F1557Words in Sch. 7 omitted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(8)(b)

F1558Words in Sch. 7 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 21(d)

F1559Words in Sch. 7 omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(3), 2(8)(c)

F1569Words in Sch. 7 para. 10 omitted (11.4.1988) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/663), regs. 1(1), 33(a)

F1571Sch. 7 paras. 10A-10C substituted (8.4.2002 for specified purposes and with application in accordance with art. 1(2)(g)(4)) by The Social Security Benefits Up Rating Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/668), arts. 1(2)(g), 16(7), Sch. 4 Pt. I

F1577Words in Sch. 7 para. 11 inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 21(g)

F1580Words in Sch. 7 para. 11 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 13(c)

F1581Sch. 7 para. 11A inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 21(h)

F1584Sch. 7 para. 12 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 21(i)

F1585Sch. 7 para. 12A inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 21(j)

F1587Sch. 7 para. 13 substituted (8.4.2002 for specified purposes and with application in accordance with art. 1(2)(g)(4)) by The Social Security Benefits Up Rating Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/668), arts. 1(2)(g), 16(7), Sch. 4 Pt. I

F1589Sch. 7 para. 13A substituted (8.4.2002 for specified purposes and with application in accordance with art. 1(2)(g)(4)) by The Social Security Benefits Up Rating Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/668), arts. 1(2)(g), 16(7), Sch. 4 Pt. I

F1591Sch. 7 para. 13B amended (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2)(g) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/599), arts. 1(2)(g), 18(10), Sch. 7 Pt. I

F1593Sch. 7 para. 14 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(c) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 13(e)

F1594Sch. 7 para. 15 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(c) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 13(e)

F1597Words in Sch. 7 substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 21(i)

F1603Words in Sch. 7 substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 2(8)(d)

F1609Words in Sch. 7 para. 19A omitted by S.I. 2001/3767, Sch. Pt. 1 para. 17(i) (as added) (8.4.2002) by virtue of The Social Security Amendment (Residential Care and Nursing Homes) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/398), regs. 1, 4(2)(c)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C125Sch. 7 para. 2A: sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(i), 20(1)(3), Sch. 4

C126Sch. 7 para. 7: sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(i), 20(1)(3), Sch. 4

C127Sch. 7 para. 8(a): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(i), 20(1)(3), Sch. 4

C128Sch. 7 para. 17: sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(i), 20(1)(3), Sch. 4

Regulations 36(2), 38(2) and 44(6)

SCHEDULE 8E+W+SSUMS TO BE DISREGARDED IN THE CALCULATION OF EARNINGS

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

[F16101.(1) In the case of a claimant who has been engaged in remunerative work as an employed earner or, had the employment been in Great Britain, would have been so engaged—E+W+S

(a)any earnings, other than items to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, paid or due to be paid from that employment which terminated before the first day of entitlement to income support;

(b)any earnings, other than a payment of the nature described in [F1611sub-paragraph (2)(a) or (b)(ii)], paid or due to be paid from that employment which has not been terminated where the claimant is not—

(i)engaged in remunerative work, or

(ii)suspended from his employment.

(2) This sub-paragraph applies to—

[F1612(a)any payment of the nature described in—

(i)regulation 35(1)(e), or

(ii)section 28, 64 or 68 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (guarantee payments, suspension from work on medical or maternity grounds); and]

(b)any award, sum or payment of the nature described in—

(i)regulation 35(1)(g) or (h), or

(ii)section 34 or 70 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (guarantee payments and suspension from work: complaints to employment tribunals),

including any payment made following the settlement of a complaint to an employment tribunal or of court proceedings.]

Textual Amendments

F1611Words in Sch. 8 para. 1(1)(b) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(16)(a)

F1612Sch. 8 para. 1(2)(a) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(16)(b)

[F16131A.  If the claimant’s partner has been engaged in remunerative work as an employed earner or, had the employment been in Great Britain, would have been so engaged, any earnings paid or due to be paid on termination of that employment by way of retirement but only if the partner has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit on retirement.]E+W+S

[F16142.(1) In the case of a claimant to whom this paragraph applies, any earnings (other than a payment of the nature described in [F1615paragraph 1(2)(a) or (b)(ii)]) which relate to employment which ceased before the first day of entitlement to income support whether or not that employment has terminated.E+W+S

(2) This paragraph applies to a claimant who has been engaged in part-time employment as an employed earner or, had the employment been in Great Britain, would have been so engaged; but it does not apply to a claimant who has been suspended from his employment.]

3.  In the case of a claimant who has been engaged in remunerative work or part-time employment as a self-employed earner [F1616or, had the employment been in Great Britain, would have been so engaged] and who has ceased to be so employed, from the date of the cessation of his employment any earnings derived from that employment except earnings to which regulation 30(2) (royalties etc.) applies.E+W+S

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I80Sch. 8 para. 3 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F16174.(1) In a case to which this paragraph applies, [F1618£20]; but notwithstanding regulation 23 (calculation of income and capital of members of claimant’s family and of a polygamous marriage), if this paragraph applies to a claimant it shall not apply to his partner except where, and to the extent that, the earnings of the claimant which are to be disregarded under this paragraph are less than [F1618£20].E+W+S

(2) This paragraph applies where the claimant’s applicable amount includes, or but for his being an in-patient F1619... F1620... would include, an amount by way of a disability premium under Schedule 2 (applicable amounts).

(3) This paragraph applies where–

(a)the claimant is a member of a couple, and–

(i)his applicable amount would include an amount by way of the disability premium under Schedule 2 but for the higher pensioner premium under that Schedule being applicable; or

(ii)had he not been an in-patient F1621... F1622... his applicable amount would include the higher pensioner premium under that Schedule and had that been the case he would also satisfy the condition in (i) above; and

F1623(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) This paragraph applies where–

(a)the claimant’s applicable amount includes, or but for his being an in-patient F1624... F1625... would include, an amount by way of the higher pensioner premium under Schedule 2; and

(b)[F1626the claimant’s partner has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit;]

(c)immediately before attaining that age F1627... his partner was engaged in part-time employment and the claimant was entitled by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) F1627... to a disregard of [F1618£20]; and

(d)he or, as the case may be, he or his partner has continued in part-time employment.

F1628(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1628(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1629(7) For the purposes of this paragraph–

(a)except where head (b) or (c) applies, no account shall be taken of any period not exceeding eight consecutive weeks occurring–

(i)[F1630on or after the date on which the claimant’s partner attained the qualifying age for state pension credit during which the partner was not engaged in part-time employment or the claimant was not entitled to income support [F1631or employment and support allowance]; or]

(ii)immediately after the date on which the claimant or his partner ceased to participate in arrangements for training made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 [F1632or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990] or to attend a course at an employment rehabilitation centre established under that section [F1633of the 1973 Act];

(b)in a case where the claimant has ceased to be entitled to income support [F1631or employment and support allowance] because he, or if he is a member of a couple, he or his partner becomes engaged in remunerative work, no account shall be taken of any period, during which he was not entitled to income support [F1631or employment and support allowance], not exceeding the permitted period determined in accordance with regulation 3A (permitted period) occurring on or after the date on which [F1634the claimant’s partner attains the qualifying age for state pension credit.];

(c)no account shall be taken of any period occurring on or after the date on which [F1635the claimant’s partner, if he is a member of a couple, attained the qualifying age for state pension credit ] during which the claimant was not entitled to income support [F1631or employment and support allowance] because he or his partner was participating in arrangements for training made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 [F1636or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990] or attending a course at an employment rehabilitation centre established under that section [F1637of the 1973 Act].]]

Textual Amendments

F1617Sch. 8 para. 4 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(c) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), regs. 1(1), 10

F1618Word in Sch. 8 para. 4 substituted (1.4.2001 for specified purposes, 2.4.2001 for specified purposes, 9.4.2001 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security Amendment (Capital Limitsand Earnings Disregards) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2545), regs. 1(1)(a)(ii)(b)(c), 3, Sch. para. 2(a) (with reg. 4)

F1629Sch. 8 para. 4(7) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1678), regs. 1(1)(b), 12(a)

F1632Words in Sch. 8 para. 4(7)(a)(ii) inserted (1.4.1991) by The Enterprise (Scotland) Consequential Amendments Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/387), arts. 1, 2, Sch.

F1636Words in Sch. 8 para. 4(7)(c) inserted (S.) (1.4.1991) by The Enterprise (Scotland) Consequential Amendments Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/387), arts. 1, 2, Sch.

Commencement Information

I81Sch. 8 para. 4 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F16385.  In a case where the claimant is a lone parent and paragraph 4 does not apply, [F1639£20].]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1639Word in Sch. 8 para. 5 substituted (1.4.2001 for specified purposes, 2.4.2001 for specified purposes, 9.4.2001 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security Amendment (Capital Limitsand Earnings Disregards) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2545), regs. 1(1)(a)(ii)(b)(c), 3, Sch. para. 2(b)

[F16406.  Where the claimant is a member of a couple—E+W+S

(a)in a case to which none of paragraphs 4, 6A, 6B, 7 and 8 applies , £10; but notwithstanding regulation 23 (calculation of income and capital of members of claimant’s family and of a polygamous marriage), if this paragraph applies to a claimant it shall not apply to his partner except where, and to the extent that, the earnings of the claimant which are to be disregarded under this sub-paragraph are less than £10;

(b)in a case to which one or more of paragraphs 4, 6A, 6B, 7 and 8 applies and the total amount disregarded under those paragraphs is less than £10, so much of the claimant’s earnings as would not in aggregate with the amount disregarded under those paragraphs exceed £10.]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I82Sch. 8 para. 6 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F16416A.(1) In a case to which none of paragraphs 4 to 6 applies to the claimant, and subject to sub-paragraph (2), where the claimant’s applicable amount includes an amount by way of the carer premium under Schedule 2 (applicable amounts), [F1642£20] of the earnings of the person who is, or at any time in the preceding eight weeks was, in receipt of [F1643carer’s allowance] [F1644or carer support payment] or treated in accordance with paragraph 14ZA(2) of that Schedule as being in receipt of [F1643carer’s allowance].E+W+S

(2) Where the carer premium is awarded in respect of the claimant and of any partner of his, their earnings shall for the purposes of this paragraph be aggregated, but the amount to be disregarded in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) shall not exceed [F1642£20] of the aggregated amount.]

[F16416B.  Where the carer premium is awarded in respect of a claimant who is a member of a couple and whose earnings are less than [F1645£20], but is not awarded in respect of the other member of the couple, and that other member is engaged in an employment—E+W+S

(a)specified in paragraph 7(1), so much of the other member’s earnings as would not when aggregated with the amount disregarded under paragraph 6A exceed [F1645£20];

(b)other than one specified in paragraph 7(1), so much of the other member’s earnings from such other employment up to £5 as would not when aggregated with the amount disregarded under paragraph 6A exceed [F1645£20].]

Textual Amendments

F1641Sch. 8 paras. 6A, 6B inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/315), regs. 1(1)(c), 8(2)

F1645Word in Sch. 8 para. 6B substituted (1.4.2001 for specified purposes, 2.4.2001 for specified purposes, 9.4.2001 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security Amendment (Capital Limitsand Earnings Disregards) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2545), regs. 1(1)(a)(ii)(b)(c), 3, Sch. para. 2(d)

7.—(1) In a case to which none of paragraphs [F16464 to 6B] applies to the claimant, [F1647£20] of earnings derived from one or more employments as—E+W+S

F1648(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1649(aa). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1650(ab). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1651(a)a part-time fire-fighter employed by a fire and rescue authority under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service established under section 1A of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005;]

(b)an auxiliary coastguard in respect of coast rescue activities;

(c)a person engaged part time in the manning or launching of a life boat;

(d)a member of any F1652... reserve force prescribed in Part I of [F1653Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001];

but, notwithstanding regulation 23 (calculation of income and capital of members of claimant's family and of a polygamous marriage), if this paragraph applies to a claimant it shall not apply to his partner except to the extent specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) If the claimant's partner is engaged in employment—

(a)specified in sub-paragraph (1) so much of his earnings as would not in aggregate with the amount of the claimant's earnings disregarded under this paragraph exceed [F1647£20];

(b)other than one specified in sub-paragraph (1) so much of his earnings from that employment up to £5 as would not in aggregate with the claimant's earnings disregarded under this paragraph exceed [F1647£20].

Textual Amendments

F1646Words in Sch. 8 para. 7 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/315), regs. 1(1)(c), 8(3)

F1647Word in Sch. 8 para. 7 substituted (1.4.2001 for specified purposes, 2.4.2001 for specified purposes, 9.4.2001 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security Amendment (Capital Limitsand Earnings Disregards) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2545), regs. 1(1)(a)(ii)(b)(c), 3, Sch. para. 2(e)

Commencement Information

I83Sch. 8 para. 7 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

8.  Where the claimant is engaged in one or more employments specified in paragraph 7(1) but his earnings derived from such employments are less than [F1654£20] in any week and he is also engaged in any other part-time employment so much of his earnings from that other employment up to £5 as would not in aggregate with the amount of his earnings disregarded under paragraph 7 exceed [F1654£20].E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1654Word in Sch. 8 para. 8 substituted (1.4.2001 for specified purposes, 2.4.2001 for specified purposes, 9.4.2001 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security Amendment (Capital Limitsand Earnings Disregards) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2545), regs. 1(1)(a)(ii)(b)(c), 3, Sch. para. 2(f)

Commencement Information

I84Sch. 8 para. 8 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

9.  In a case to which none of paragraphs 4 to 8 applies to the claimant, £5.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I85Sch. 8 para. 9 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F165510.  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, where two or more payments of the same kind and from the same source are to be taken into account in the same benefit week, because it has not been practicable to treat the payments under regulation 31(1)(b) (date on which income treated as paid) as paid on the first day of the benefit week in which they were due to be paid, there shall be disregarded from each payment the sum that would have been disregarded if the payment had been taken into account on the date on which it was due to be paid.]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I86Sch. 8 para. 10 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

11.  Any earnings derived from employment which are payable in a country outside the United Kingdom for such period during which there is a prohibition against the transfer to the United Kingdom of those earnings.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I87Sch. 8 para. 11 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

12.  Where a payment of earnings is made in a currency other than sterling, any banking charge or commission payable in converting that payment into sterling.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I88Sch. 8 para. 12 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

13.  Any earnings which is due to be paid before the date of claim and which would otherwise fall to be taken into account in the same benefit week as a payment of the same kind and from the same source.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I89Sch. 8 para. 13 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

14.  Any earnings of a child or young person[F1656except earnings to which paragraph 15 applies].E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1656Words in Sch. 8 para. 14 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 22(a)

Commencement Information

I90Sch. 8 para. 14 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

15.  [F1657[F1658In the case of earnings of a child or young person who although not receiving full-time education for the purposes of section 2 of the Child Benefit Act 1975 (meaning of “child”) is nonetheless treated for the purposes of these Regulations as receiving relevant education and] who is engaged in remunerative work, if—

(a)an amount by way of a disabled child premium under Schedule 2 (applicable amounts) isF1659... included in the calculation of his applicable amount and his earning capacity is not, by reason of his disability, less than 75 per cent of that which he would, but for that disability normally be expected to earn, [F1660£20];

(b)in any other case, £5.]

Textual Amendments

F1657Sch. 8 para. 15 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 22(b)

F1660Word in Sch. 8 para. 15 substituted (1.4.2001 for specified purposes, 2.4.2001 for specified purposes, 9.4.2001 in so far as not already in force) by The Social Security Amendment (Capital Limitsand Earnings Disregards) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2545), regs. 1(1)(a)(ii)(b)(c), 3, Sch. para. 2(g)

Commencement Information

I91Sch. 8 para. 15 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F166115A.(1) Where earnings to which sub-paragraph (2) applies (in aggregate with the claimant’s other income (if any) calculated in accordance with this Part) exceed the applicable amount (as specified in Part IV and Schedule 2) less 10 pence, the amount of those earnings corresponding to that excess.E+W+S

(2) This sub-paragraph applies to earnings, in so far as they exceed the amount disregarded under paragraph 7, derived by the claimant from employment as a member of any F1662... reserve force prescribed in Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Contributions Regulations in respect of a period of annual continuous training for a maximum of 15 days in any calendar year [F1663or in respect of training in the claimant’s first year of training as a member of a reserve force for a maximum of 43 days in that year.]]

F166415B.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F166515C.  In the case of a person to whom paragraph (5) of regulation 6 (persons not treated as in remunerative work) applies, any earnings.]E+W+S

16.  In this Schedule “part-time employment” means employment in which the person is not to be treated as engaged in remunerative work under regulation 5 or 6 (persons treated, or not treated, as engaged in remunerative work).E+W+S

Commencement Information

I92Sch. 8 para. 16 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

Regulation 40 (2)

SCHEDULE 9E+W+SSUMS TO BE DISREGARDED IN THE CALCULATION OF INCOME OTHER THAN EARNINGS

1.  Any amount paid by way of tax on income which is taken into account under regulation 40 (calculation of income other than earnings).E+W+S

Commencement Information

I93Sch. 9 para. 1 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F16661A.  Any payment in respect of any travel of other expenses incurred, or to be incurred, by the claimant in respect of that claimant’s participation in [F1667a scheme prescribed in regulation 3 of the Jobseeker's Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013] or the Mandatory Work Activity Scheme.]E+W+S

2.  Any payment in respect of any expenses incurred[F1668, or to be incurred,] by a claimant who is—E+W+S

(a)engaged by a charitable or [F1669voluntary organisation]; or

(b)a volunteer,

if he otherwise derives no remuneration or profit from the employment and is not to be treated as possessing any earnings under regulation 42 (6) (notional income).

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I94Sch. 9 para. 2 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F16702A.  Any payment in respect of expenses arising out of the [F1671claimant participating as a service user].]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1670Sch. 9 para. 2A inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(17)(a)

3.  In the case of employment as an employed earner, any payment in respect of expenses wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred in the performance of the duties of the employment.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I95Sch. 9 para. 3 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

4.  In the case of a payment [F1672under Parts 11 to] [F167312ZB [F1674or under Part 12ZD] of the Contributions and Benefits Act] or any remuneration paid by or on behalf of an employer to the claimant who for the time being is unable to work due to illness or maternity [F1675or who is taking paternity leave [F1676, adoption leave [F1677, shared parental leave or parental bereavement leave]]]E+W+S

(a)any amount deducted by way of primary Class 1 contributions under the Social Security Act;

(b)one-half of any sum paid by the claimant by way of a contribution towards an occupational or personal pension scheme.

[F16784A.  In the case of the payment of statutory sick pay under Part II of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 [F1679, statutory maternity pay under Part XII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 or a payment under any enactment having effect in Northern Ireland corresponding to a payment of F1680[F1681... statutory paternity pay] [F1682, statutory adoption pay or statutory shared parental pay]]E+W+S

(a)any amount deducted by way of primary Class 1 contributions under the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975;

(b)one-half of any sum paid by way of a contribution towards an occupational or personal pension scheme.]

[F16835.  Any housing benefit to which the claimant is entitled.]E+W+S

[F16845A.  Any guardian’s allowance.]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1684Sch. 9 para. 5A inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(5)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 23(a)

[F16855B.  E+W+S

(1) Any child tax credit.

(2) Any child benefit.]

[F1686(3) Any increase in respect of a dependent child or dependent young person under section 80 or 90 of the Contributions and Benefits Act where—

(a)the claimant has a child or young person who is a member of the claimant’s family for the purposes of the claimant’s claim for income support, and

(b)the claimant, or that claimant’s partner, has been awarded a child tax credit.]

Textual Amendments

F1685Sch. 9 para. 5B inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 23(b)

F1686Sch. 9 para. 5B(3) added (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2429), reg. 2(3)(a)

[F16875C.(1) £1.20 in relation to each week in which child benefit is payable to the claimant at the enhanced rate in respect of a child or qualifying young person for whom the claimant is treated as responsible.E+W+S

(2) 65 pence in relation to each week in which child benefit is payable to the claimant other than at the enhanced rate in respect of a child or qualifying young person for whom the claimant is treated as responsible (and if there is more than one, 65 pence in relation to each such child or young person).

(3) This paragraph does not apply to a claimant in relation to whom regulation 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 have effect.

(4) In this paragraph—

“child” and “qualifying young person” have the meanings given in section 142 of the Contributions and Benefits Act;

“treated as responsible” is to be construed in accordance with section 143 of that Act;

“the enhanced rate” has the meaning given in regulation 2(1)(a) of the Child Benefit (Rates) Regulations 2006.]

6.  [F1688The] [F1689mobility component of disability living allowance] [F1690[F1691,] the mobility component of personal independence payment] [F1692or the mobility component of adult disability payment].E+W+S

7.  Any concessionary payment made to compensate for the non-payment of—E+W+S

(a)any payment specified in [F1693paragraph 6 [F1694or 9]];

[F1695(b)income support;

(c)an income-based jobseeker’s allowance; F1696...

(d)an income-related employment and support allowance][F1697; or

(e)universal credit.]

8.  Any mobility supplement or any payment intended to compensate for the non-payment of such a supplement.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I99Sch. 9 para. 8 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F16989.  Any attendance allowance [F1699, the care component of disability living allowance [F1700,] the daily living component of personal independence payment] [F1701or the daily living component of adult disability payment] F1702....]E+W+S

F17039A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1703Sch. 9 para. 9A omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 23(2)

10.  Any payment to the claimant as holder of the Victoria Cross or George Cross or any analogous payment.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I100Sch. 9 para. 10 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F170411.(1) Any payment—E+W+S

(a)by way of an education maintenance allowance made pursuant to—

(i)regulations made under section 518 of the Education Act 1996;

(ii)regulations made under section 49 or 73(f) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980;

[F1705(iii)directions made under section 73ZA of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 and paid under section 12(2)(c) of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992; F1706...]

(b)corresponding to such an education maintenance allowance, made pursuant to—

(i)section 14 or section 181 of the Education Act 2002; or

(ii)regulations made under section 181 of that Act[F1707; or

(c)in England, by way of financial assistance made pursuant to section 14 of the Education Act 2002.]

(2) Any payment, other than a payment to which sub-paragraph (1) applies, made pursuant to—

(a)regulations made under section 518 of the Education Act 1996;

(b)regulations made under section 49 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980; or

[F1708(c)directions made under section 73ZA of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 and paid under section 12(2)(c) of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992,]

in respect of a course of study attended by a child or a young person or a person who is in receipt of an education maintenance allowance [F1709or other payment] made pursuant to any provision specified in sub-paragraph (1).]

[F171011A.  Any payment made to the claimant by way of a repayment under regulation 11(2) of the Education (Teacher Student Loans) (Repayment etc) Regulations 2002.]E+W+S

F171112.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F171213.(1) Any payment made pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (functions of the Secretary of State) or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (functions in relation to training for employment etc.) except a payment—E+W+S

(a)made as a substitute for income support, a jobseeker’s allowance, incapacity benefit [F1713, severe disablement allowance or an employment and support allowance];

(b)of an allowance referred to in section 2(3) of the Employment and Training Act 1973 or section 2(5) of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990;

(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 him enhance his employment prospects unless the payment is a Career Development Loan paid pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 and the period of education or training or the scheme, which is supported by that loan, has been completed; or

(d)made in respect of the cost of living away from home to the extent that the payment relates to rent for which housing benefit is payable in respect of accommodation which is not normally occupied by the claimant as his 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 for which housing benefit is payable, or any housing costs to the extent that they are met under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs), of the claimant or, where the claimant is a member of a family, any other member of his family, or any council tax or water charges for which that claimant or member is liable.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, “ordinary clothing or footwear” means clothing or footwear for normal daily use, but does not include school uniforms, or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities.]

F171414.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F171515.[F1716(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) and paragraph 39, any relevant payment made or due to be made at regular intervals.]E+W+S

F1717(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) [F1718Sub-paragraph (1)] shall not apply—

(a)to a payment which is made by a person for the maintenance of any member of his family or of his former partner or of his children;

(b)in the case of a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 23A(b) of the Act (effect of return to work).

F1717(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1717(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

[F1719(5A) In this paragraph, “relevant payment” means—

(a)a charitable payment;

(b)a voluntary payment;

(c)a payment (not falling within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above) from a trust whose funds are derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant;

(d)a payment under an annuity purchased—

(i)pursuant to any agreement or court order to make payments to the claimant; or

(ii)from funds derived from a payment made,

in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant; or

(e)a payment (not falling within sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) above) received by virtue of any agreement or court order to make payments to the claimant in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant.]

F1720(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1715Sch. 9 para. 15 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 22(a)

F1716Sch. 9 para. 15(1) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(10)(a)(i)

F1717Sch. 9 para. 15(2)(4)(5) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(10)(a)(iii)

F1718Words in Sch. 9 para. 15(3) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(10)(a)(ii)

Commencement Information

I101Sch. 9 para. 15 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

F172115A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1721Sch. 9 para. 15A omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(10)(b)

F172215B.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F172316.  Subject to paragraphs 36 and 37, £10 of any of the following, namely—E+W+S

(a)a war disablement pension (except insofar as such a pension falls to be disregarded under paragraph 8 or 9);

(b)a war widow’s pension [F1724or war widower’s pension];

(c)a pension payable to a person as a [F1725widow, widower or surviving civil partner] under F1726... any power of Her Majesty otherwise than under an enactment to make provision about pensions for or in respect of persons who have been disabled or have died in consequence of service as members of the armed forces of the Crown;

[F1727(cc)a guaranteed income payment [F1728and, if the amount of that payment has been abated to less than £10 by a [F1729pension or payment falling within article 31(1)(a) or (b) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005], so much of [F1730that pension or payment] as would not, in aggregate with [F1731any] amount of the guaranteed income payment disregarded, exceed £10];]

(d)a payment made to compensate for the non-payment of such a pension [F1732or payment] as is mentioned in any of the preceding sub-paragraphs;

(e)a pension paid by the government of a country outside Great Britain which is analogous to any of the [F1733pensions or payments mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (cc) above]];

[F1734(f)a pension paid by a government to victims of National Socialist persecution;]

[F1735(g)any widowed mother’s allowance paid pursuant to section 37 of the Contributions and Benefits Act;

(h)any widowed parent’s allowance paid pursuant to section 39A of the Contributions and Benefits Act.]

Textual Amendments

F1728Words in Sch. 9 para. 16(cc) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 7) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3157), regs. 1(2), 2(7)(e)(ii)

F1729Words in Sch. 9 para. 16(cc) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(17)(b)(i)

F1730Words in Sch. 9 para. 16(cc) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(17)(b)(ii)

F1731Word in Sch. 9 para. 16(cc) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(17)(b)(iii)

17.  Where a claimant receives income under an annuity purchased with a loan which satisfies the following conditions—E+W+S

(a)that the loan was made as part of a scheme under which not less than 90 per cent of the proceeds of the loan were applied to the purchase by the person to whom it was made of an annuity ending with his life or with the life of the survivor of two or more persons (in this paragraph referred to as “the annuitants”) who include the person to whom the loan was made;

(b)that the interest on the loan is payable by the person to whom it was made or by one of the annuitants;

(c)that at the time the loan was made the person to whom it was made or each of the annuitants had attained the age of 65 [F1736or, if it was higher at that time, pensionable age];

(d)that the loan was secured on a dwelling in Great Britain and the person to whom the loan was made or one of the annuitants owns an estate or interest in that dwelling; and

(e)that the person to whom the loan was made or one of the annuitants occupies the accommodation on which it was secured as his home at the time the interest is paid,

the amount, calculated on a weekly basis equal to—

[F1737(i)where, or insofar as, section 369 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (mortgage interest payable under deduction of tax) applies to the payments of interest on the loan, the interest which is payable after deduction of a sum equal to income tax on such payments at the applicable percentage of income tax within the meaning of section 369(1A) of that Act;]

(ii)in any other case the interest which is payable on the loan without deduction of such a sum.

Textual Amendments

F1737Sch. 9 para. 17(i) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 32(2)

Commencement Information

I102Sch. 9 para. 17 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F173818.  Any payment made to the claimant by a person who normally resides with the claimant, which is a contribution towards that person’s living and accommodation costs, except where that person is residing with the claimant in circumstances to which paragraph 19 or 20 refers.]E+W+S

[F173919.  Where the claimant occupies a dwelling as his home and the dwelling is also occupied by [F1740another person] and there is a contractual liability to make payments to the claimant in respect of the occupation of the dwelling by that person or a member of his family—E+W+S

[F1741(a)where the aggregate of any payments made in respect of any one week in respect of the occupation of the dwelling by that person or a member of his family, or by that person and a member of his family, is less than £20, the whole of that amount; or

(b)where the aggregate of any such payments is £20 or more per week, £20.]]

Textual Amendments

F1739Sch. 9 para. 19 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 9(3)

F1741Sch. 9 para. 19(a)(b) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2618), regs. 1(2), 5(12)

Commencement Information

I103Sch. 9 para. 19 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F174220.  Where the claimant occupies a dwelling as his home and he provides in that dwelling board and lodging accommodation, an amount, in respect of each person for whom such accommodation is provided for the whole or any part of a week, equal to—E+W+S

(a)where the aggregate of any payments made in respect of any one week in respect of such accommodation provided to such person does not exceed £20.00, 100% of such payments; or

(b)where the aggregate of any such payments exceeds £20.00, £20.00 and 50% of the excess over £20.00.]

Textual Amendments

F1742Sch. 9 para. 20 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(b), 9(4)

Commencement Information

I104Sch. 9 para. 20 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F174321.(1) [F1744Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3)], except where [F1745regulation 40(4)(b) (provision of support under section 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act including support provided by virtue of regulations made under Schedule 9 to that Act in the calculation of income other than earnings) or] regulation 42(4)(a)(i) (notional income) applies or in the case of a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies, any income in kind;

(2) The exception under sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply where the income in kind [F1746is a Grenfell Tower payment [F1747, a child abuse payment or a Windrush payment] or] is received from the Macfarlane Trust [F1748, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust] [F1749, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No. 2) Trust] [F1750, the Fund] [F1751, the Eileen Trust] [F1752, MFET Limited] [F1753, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation] [F1754, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F1755, an approved blood scheme] [F1756, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund] [F1757, the National Emergencies Trust] [F1758or [F1759the Independent Living [F1760Fund (2006)]]].]

[F1761(3) The first exception under sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply where the claimant is the partner of a person subject to immigration control and whose partner is receiving support provided under section 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act including support provided by virtue of regulations made under Schedule 9 to that Act and the income in kind is support provided in respect of essential living needs of the partner of the claimant and his dependants (if any) as is specified in regulations made under paragraph 3 of Schedule 8 to the Immigration and Asylum Act.]

[F1762(4) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to “income in kind” does not include a payment to a third party made in respect of the claimant which is used by the third party to provide benefits in kind to the claimant.]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I105Sch. 9 para. 21 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

22.—(1) Any income derived from capital to which the claimant is or is treated under regulation 52 (capital jointly held) as beneficially entitled but, subject to sub-paragraph (2), not income derived from capital disregarded under paragraph 1, 2, 4, 6 [F176312 or 25 to 28] of Schedule 10.E+W+S

(2) Income derived from capital disregarded under paragraph 2 [F17644 or 25 to 28] of Schedule 10 but [F1765only to the extent of—

(a)any mortgage repayments made in respect of the dwelling or premises in the period during which that income accrued; or

(b)any council tax or water charges which the claimant is liable to pay in respect of the dwelling or premises and which are paid in the period during which that income accrued.]

[F1766(3) The definition of “water charges” in regulation 2(1) shall apply to sub-paragraph (2) with the omission of the words “in so far as such charges are in respect of the dwelling which a person occupies as his home”.]

Textual Amendments

F1765Words in Sch. 9 para. 22(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/315), regs. 1(1)(b)(c), 9(2)

F1766Sch. 9 para. 22(3) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/315), regs. 1(1)(b)(c), 9(3)

Commencement Information

I106Sch. 9 para. 22 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

23.  Any income which is payable in a country outside the United Kingdom for such period during which there is prohibition against the transfer to the United Kingdom of that income.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I107Sch. 9 para. 23 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

24.  Where a payment of income is made in a currency other than sterling, any banking charge or commission payable in converting that payment into sterling.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I108Sch. 9 para. 24 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

25.—(1) Any payment made to the claimant in respect of a child or young person who is a member of his family—E+W+S

[F1767(a)[F1768pursuant to regulations under section 2(6)(b), 3 or 4 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or in accordance] with a scheme approved by the [F1769Scottish Ministers under section 51A] of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (schemes for payment of allowances to adopters) [F1770or in accordance with an adoption allowance scheme made under section 71 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (adoption allowances schemes)];]

[F1771(b)F1772. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1773(ba)which is a payment made by a local authority in Scotland in pursuance of section 50 of the Children Act 1975 (payments towards maintenance of children);]

(c)which is a payment made by a local authority in pursuance of section 15(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, the Children Act 1989 (local authority contribution to a child’s maintenance where the child is living with a person as a result of a [F1774child arrangements] order);

(d)which is a payment made by an authority, as defined in Article 2 of the Children Order, in pursuance of Article 15 of, and paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 to, that Order (contribution by an authority to child’s maintenance);]

[F1775(e)in accordance with regulations made pursuant to section 14F of the Children Act 1989 (special guardianship support services);]

[F1776to the extent specified in sub-paragraph (2)].

[F1777(1A) Any payment, other than a payment to which sub-paragraph (1)(a) applies, made to the claimant pursuant to regulations under section 2(6)(b), 3 or 4 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.]

(2) [F1778In the case of a child or young person—

(a)to whom regulation 44 (5) (capital in excess of £3,000) applies, the whole payment;

(b)to whom that regulation does not apply, so much of the weekly amount of the payment as exceeds the applicable amount in respect of that child or young person and where applicable to him any amount by way of a disabled child premium.]

Textual Amendments

F1767Sch. 9 para. 25(1)(a) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 9(a), (with Sch. para. 11)

F1771Sch. 9 para. 25(1)(b)(c)(d) substituted for Sch. 9 para. 25(1)(b) (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/563), regs. 1(2), 15(2)

F1773Sch. 9 para. 25(1)(ba) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(17)(c)

F1776Words in Sch. 9 para. 25(1) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 23(c)

F1778Sch. 9 para. 25(2) omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 23(c)

Commencement Information

I109Sch. 9 para. 25 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F177925A.  In the case of a claimant who has a child or young person–E+W+S

(a)who is a member of his family, and

(b)who is residing at an educational establishment at which he is receiving relevant education,

any payment made to that educational establishment, in respect of that child or young person’s maintenance by or on behalf of a person who is not a member of the family or by a member of the family out of funds contributed for that purpose by a person who is not a member of the family.]

Textual Amendments

F1779Sch. 9 para. 25A inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 23(d)

[F178026.  Any payment made to the claimant with whom a person is accommodated by virtue of arrangements made—E+W+S

(a)by a local authority under—

[F1781(i)section 22C(2) of the Children Act 1989 (ways in which looked after children are to be accommodated and maintained),]

[F1782(ia)section 81(2) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (ways in which looked after children are to be accommodated and maintained),]

(ii)section 26 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (manner of provision of accommodation to child looked after by local authority), or

(iii)regulations 33 or 51 of the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (fostering and kinship care allowances and fostering allowances); or

(b)by a voluntary organisation under section 59(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989 (provision of accommodation by voluntary organisations).]

[F178327.  Any payment made to the claimant or his partner for a person (“the person concerned"), who is not normally a member of the claimant’s household but is temporarily in his care, by—E+W+S

(a)a health authority;

(b)a local authority [F1784but excluding payments of housing benefit made in respect of the person concerned];

(c)a voluntary organisation; or

(d)the person concerned pursuant to section 26(3A) of the National Assistance Act 1948;] F1785 ...

[F1786(dza)the person concerned where the payment is for the provision of accommodation in respect of the meeting of that person’s needs under section 18 or 19 of the Care Act 2014 (duty and power to meet needs for care and support);]

[F1787(dzb)the person concerned where the payment is for the provision of accommodation to meet that person’s needs for care and support under section 35 or 36 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (duty and power to meet care and support needs of an adult);]

[F1788(da)[F1789an integrated care board] established under section 14D of the National Health Service Act 2006;]

[F1788(db)[F1790NHS England]; or]

F1791(e). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1792(f)a Local Health Board established under section 16BA of the National Health Service Act 1977 or established by an order made under section 11 of the Health Service (Wales) Act.]

Textual Amendments

F1783Sch. 9 para. 27 substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/563), regs. 1(2), 7(3)(4)(e)

[F179327A.  Any payment made to a claimant under section 73(1)(b) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (kinship care assistance).]E+W+S

[F179428.(1) Any payment made by a local authority in accordance with—E+W+S

(a)section 17, 23B, 23C or 24A of the Children Act 1989,

(b)section 12 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, F1795...

(c)section [F179622,] [F179726A, 29] or 30 of the Children (Scotland) Act [F17981995, or

(d)the following sections of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014—

(aa)section 37 or 38, but excluding any direct payment made in accordance with regulations made under section 51 of that Act, or

(bb)section 109, 110, 114 or 115.]

(2) Any payment (or part of a payment) made by a local authority in accordance with section 23C of the Children Act 1989 or section [F179922 or] [F1800, 26A or 29 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (local authorities’ duty to promote welfare of children, duty to provide continuing care and provision of advice and assistance for certain young persons)] to a person (“A”) which A passes on to the claimant.

(3) Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to the following provisions.

(4) Neither of those sub-paragraphs applies where the claimant is a person—

(a)to whom section 126 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (trade disputes) applies, or

(b)in respect of whom section 124(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 127 of that Act (effect of return to work).

(5) Sub-paragraph (2) applies only where A—

(a)was formerly in the claimant’s care, and

[F1801(b)is aged 18 or over or, in the case of a payment or part of a payment made in accordance with section 26A of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, aged 16 or over, and]

(c)continues to live with the claimant.]

Textual Amendments

F1794Sch. 9 para. 28 substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/698), reg. 2(14)(b)

[F180229.  Any payment received under an insurance policy taken out to insure against the risk of being unable to maintain repayments on a loan which qualifies under Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (legacy benefit claimants and SPC claimants) and used to meet such repayments.]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

[F180330.(1) Except where paragraph 29 [F1804or 30ZA] applies, and subject to sub-paragraph (2), any payment made to the claimant which is intended to be used and is used as a contribution towards—E+W+S

(a)any payment due on a loan if secured on the dwelling occupied as the home which does not qualify [F1805under Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations];

[F1806(b)any charge which qualifies in accordance with paragraph 17 of Schedule 3 (housing costs) to these Regulations or any interest payment on a loan which qualifies under Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations, to the extent that the charge or payment is not met under these Regulations or by loan payments (as the case may be);]

(c)any payment due on a loan which qualifies [F1807under Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations] attributable to the payment or capital;

(d)any amount due by way of premiums on—

(i)[F1808an insurance policy taken out to insure against the risk of being unable to make the payments referred to in (a) to (c) above;] or

(ii)a policy of insurance taken out to insure against loss or damage to any building or part of a building which is occupied by the claimant as his home.

(e)his rent in respect of the dwelling occupied by him as his home but only to the extent that it is not met by housing benefit; or his accommodation charge but only to the extent that the actual charge [F1809exceeds] the amount payable by a local authority in accordance with Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948 [F1810or Part 1 of the Care Act 2014 (care and support)] [F1811or Part 4 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (meeting needs) other than any direct payment made in accordance with regulations made under section 50 or 52 of that Act].

(2) This paragraph shall not apply to any payment which is treated as possessed by the claimant by virtue of regulation 42(4)(a)(ii) (notional income).]

[F1812(3) In this paragraph—

(a)“Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations” means the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017;

(b)“loan payments” has the meaning given in the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations.]

Textual Amendments

[F181330ZA.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any payment received under an insurance policy, other than an insurance policy referred to in paragraph 29, taken out to insure against the risk of being unable to maintain repayments under a regulated agreement as defined for the purposes of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 or under a hire-purchase agreement or a conditional sale agreement as defined for the purposes of Part III of the Hire-Purchase Act 1964.E+W+S

(2) A payment referred to in sub-paragraph (1) shall only be disregarded to the extent that the payment received under that policy does not exceed the amounts, calculated on a weekly basis, which are used to—

(a)maintain the repayments referred to in sub-paragraph (1); and

(b)meet any amount due by way of premiums on that policy.]

[F181430A.(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), in the case of a claimant [F1815residing in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital], any payment, [F1816except a charitable or voluntary payment disregarded under paragraph 15] F1817..., made to the claimant which is intended to be used and is used to meet the cost of maintaining the claimant in that home [F1818or hospital].E+W+S

(2) This paragraph shall not apply to a claimant for whom accommodation in a [F1819care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital] is provided by

[F1820(a)]a local authority under section 26 of the National Assistance Act 1948F1821.... [F1822or

(b)a person other than a local authority under arrangements made with the person by a local authority in the exercise of the local authority’s functions under section 18 or 19 of the Care Act 2014 (duty and power to meet needs for care and support)] [F1823or under section 35 or 36 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (duty and power to meet care and support needs of an adult).]

(3) The amount to be disregarded under this paragraph shall not exceed the difference between—

[F1824(a)the claimant’s applicable amount; and]

(b)the weekly charge for the accommodation.]

Textual Amendments

F1814Sch. 9 para. 30A added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2119), regs. 1(1)(a), 23(6)

F1817Words in Sch. 9 para. 30A omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(10)(d)

[F182531.  Any social fund payment made pursuant to [F1826Part 8 of the Contributions and Benefits Act].]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I111Sch. 9 para. 31 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F182731A.  Any local welfare provision.]E+W+S

32.  Any payment of income which under regulation 48 (income treated as capital) is to be treated as capital.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I112Sch. 9 para. 32 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

33.  Any payment under [F1828Part 10 of the Contributions and Benefits Act] (pensioner's Christmas bonus).E+W+S

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I113Sch. 9 para. 33 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

34.  In the case of a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies and for so long as it applies, any payment up to the amount of the relevant sum within the meaning of subsection 6 of that section made by a trade union; but, notwithstanding regulation 23 (calculation of income and capital of members of claimant's family and of a polyamous marriage) if this paragraph applies to a claimant it shall not apply to his partner except where, and to the extent that, the amount to be disregarded under this paragraph is less than the relevant sum.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I114Sch. 9 para. 34 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

35.  Any payment which is due to be paid before the date of claim which would otherwise fall to be taken into account in the same benefit week as a payment of the same kind and from the same source.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I115Sch. 9 para. 35 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

36.  The total of a claimant's income or, if he is a member of a family, the family's income and the income of any person which he is treated as possessing under regulation 23 (3) (calculation of income and capital of members of claimant's family and of a polygamous marriage) to be disregarded under regulation 63 (2) (b) and 64 (1) (c) (calculation of covenant income where a contribution assessed)[F1829, regulation 66A(2) (treatment of student loans)[F1830, regulation 66B(3) (treatment of payments from access funds)]] and [F1831paragraph 16] shall in no case exceed [F1832£20] per week.E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1830Words in Sch. 9 para. 36 inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(b)(i)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 2(9)

F1831Words in Sch. 9 para. 36 substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(10)(e)

Commencement Information

I116Sch. 9 para. 36 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

37.  Notwithstanding paragraph 36 where two or more payments of the same kind and from the same source are to be taken into account in the same benefit week, there shall be disregarded from each payment the sum which would otherwise fall to be disregarded under this Schedule; but this paragraph shall only apply in the case of a payment which it has not been practicable to treat under regulation 31 (1) (b) (date on which income treated as paid) as paid on the first day of the benefit week in which it is due to be paid.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I117Sch. 9 para. 37 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

F183338.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1833Sch. 9 para. 38 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(c) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), reg. 4(6)

[F183439.(1) Any payment made under [F1835or by] the Macfarlane Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No. 2) Trust (“the Trusts"), [F1836the Fund] [F1837, the Eileen Trust] [F1838, MFET Limited] [F1839, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation] [F1840, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F1841, an approved blood scheme] [F1842, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund] [F1843, the National Emergencies Trust] or [F1844the Independent Living [F1845Fund (2006)]].E+W+S

[F1846(1A) Any—

(a)Grenfell Tower payment;

(b)child abuse payment;

(c)Windrush payment.]

[F1847(d)a Post Office compensation payment.]

(2) Any payment by or on behalf of a person who is suffering or who suffered from haemophilia [F1836or who is or was a qualifying person], which derives from a payment made under [F1835or by] any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers [F1848, or from a Grenfell Tower payment [F1849, a child abuse payment [F1850, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] ,] and which is made to or for the benefit of—

(a)that person’s partner or former partner from whom he is not, or where that person has died was not, estranged or divorced [F1851or with whom he has formed a civil partnership that has not been dissolved or, where that person has died, had not been dissolved at the time of that person's death];

(b)any child who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the claimant’s family; or

(c)any young person who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the claimant’s family.

(3) Any payment by or on behalf of the partner or former partner of a person who is suffering or who suffered from haemophilia [F1852or who is or was a qualifying person] provided that the partner or former partner and that person are not, or if either of them has died were not, estranged or divorced [F1853or, where the partner or former partner and that person have formed a civil partnership, the civil partnership has not been dissolved or, if either of them has died, had not been dissolved at the time of the death], which derives a payment made under [F1835or by] any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers [F1854, or from a Grenfell Tower payment [F1849, a child abuse payment [F1850, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] ,] and which is made to or fro the benefit of—

(a)the person who is suffering from haemophilia [F1855or who is a qualifying person];

(b)any child who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the claimant’s family; or

(c)any young person who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the claimant’s family.

(4) Any payment by a person who is suffering from haemophilia [F1856or who is a qualifying person], which derives from a payment under [F1835or by] any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers, [F1857or from a Grenfell Tower payment [F1849, a child abuse payment [F1850, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] ,] where—

(a)that person has no partner or former partner from whom he is not estranged or divorced [F1858or with whom he has formed a civil partnership that has not been dissolved], nor any child or young person who is or had been a member of that person’s family; and

(b)the payment is made either—

(i)to that person’s parent or step-parent, or

(ii)where that person at the date of the payment is a child, a young person or a [F1859full-time student] who has not completed his full-time education and has no parent or step-parent, to his guardian,

but only for a period from the date of the payment until the end of two years from that person’s death.

(5) Any payment out of the estate of a person who suffered from haemophilia [F1856or who was a qualifying person], which derives from a payment under [F1835or by] any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers, [F1860or from a Grenfell Tower payment [F1849, a child abuse payment [F1850, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] ,] where—

(a)that person at the date of his death (the relevant date) had no partner or former partner from whom he was not estranged or divorced [F1861or with whom he had formed a civil partnership that had not been dissolved], nor any child or young person who was or had been a member of his family; and

(b)the payment is made either—

(i)to that person’s parent or step-parent, or

(ii)where that person at the relevant date was a child, a young person or a [F1862full-time student] who had not completed his full-time education and had no parent or step-parent, to his guardian,

but only for a period of two years from the relevant date.

(6) In the case of a person to whom or for whose benefit a payment referred to in this paragraph is made, any income which derives from any payment of income or capital made under or deriving from any of the Trusts [F1863or from a Grenfell Tower payment] [F1849, a child abuse payment [F1850, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] .]

[F1864(7) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2) to (6), any reference to the Trusts shall be construed as including a reference to the Fund [F1865, the Eileen Trust [F1866, MFET Limited] [F1867, the Skipton Fund] [F1868, the Caxton Foundation] [F1869, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F1870, an approved blood scheme] [F1871, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund] [F1872, the National Emergencies Trust] and the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund].]

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[F187340.  Any payment made by the Secretary of State to compensate for the loss (in whole or in part) of entitlement to housing benefit.]E+W+S

F187441.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

F187442.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F187543.  Any payment made to a juror or a witness in respect of attendance at a court other than compensation for loss of earnings or for the loss of a benefit payable under the benefit Acts.]E+W+S

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[F187846.  Any payment in consequence of a reduction of council tax under section 13 [F1879, 13A] or 80 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (reduction of liability for council tax).]E+W+S

F188047.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F188148.(1) Any payment or repayment made—E+W+S

(a)as respects England, under regulation 5, 6 or 12 of the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003 (travelling expenses and health service supplies);

(b)as respects Wales, under regulation 5, 6 or 11 of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (travelling expenses and health service supplies);

(c)as respects Scotland, under regulation 3, 5 or 11 of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (travelling expenses and health service supplies).

(2) Any payment or repayment made by the Secretary of State for Health [F1882and Social Care], the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers which is analogous to a payment or repayment mentioned in sub-paragraph (1).]

[F188149.  Any payment made to such persons entitled to receive benefits as may be determined by or under a scheme made pursuant to section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 in lieu of vouchers or similar arrangements in connection with the provision of those benefits (including payments made in place of healthy start vouchers, milk tokens or the supply of vitamins).]E+W+S

[F188350.  Any payment made either by the Secretary of State for [F1884Justice] or by the [F1885Scottish Ministers] under a scheme established to assist relatives and other persons to visit persons in custody.]E+W+S

[F188651.  Any payment (other than a training allowance) made, whether by the Secretary of State or by any other person, under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 F1887... to assist disabled persons to obtain or retain employment despite their disability.]E+W+S

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[F188853.(1) ) If the claimant is in receipt of any benefit under Part 2, 3 or 5 of the Contributions and Benefits Act, any increase in the rate of that benefit arising under Part 4 (increases for dependants) or section 106(a) (unemployability supplement) of that Act, where the dependant in respect of whom the increase is paid is not a member of the claimant’s family.

(2) If the claimant is in receipt of any pension or allowance under Part 2 or 3 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006, any increase in the rate of that pension or allowance under that Order, where the dependant in respect of whom the increase is paid is not a member of the claimant’s family.]

[F188854.  Any supplementary pension under article 23(2) of the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006 (pensions to surviving spouses and surviving civil partners) and any analogous payment made by the Secretary of State for Defence to any person who is not a person entitled under that Order.]E+W+S

[F189055.  In the case of a pension awarded at the supplementary rate under article 27(3) of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983 (pensions to [F1891widows, widowers or surviving civil partners]), the sum specified in paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 4 to that Scheme.E+W+S

56.(1) Any payment which is—E+W+S

(a)made under any of the Dispensing Instruments to a [F1892widow, widower or surviving civil partner] of a person—

(i)whose death was attributable to service in a capacity analogous to service as a member of the armed forces of the Crown; and

(ii)whose service in such capacity terminated before 31st March 1973; and

[F1893(b)equal to the amount specified in article 23(2) of the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006.]

(2) In this paragraph “the Dispensing Instruments” means the Order in Council of 19th December 1881, the Royal Warrant of 27th October 1884 and the Order by His Majesty of 14th January 1992 (exceptional grants of pay, non-effective pay and allowances).]

F1894F189557.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

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[F189658.  Any payment made F1897... [F1898as a direct payment as defined in section 4(2) of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013] [F1899, or under sections 12A to 12D of the National Health Service Act 2006 (direct payments for health care)] [F1900or under sections 31 to 33 of the Care Act 2014 (direct payments),] [F1901or under regulations made under section 57 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (direct payments)] [F1902or under regulations made under section 57 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (direct payments)] [F1903, or in accordance with regulations made under section 50 or 52 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (direct payments).]

Textual Amendments

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F190459.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F190560.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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61.(1) Any payment specified in sub-paragraph (2) to a claimant who was formerly a [F1906student] and who has completed the course in respect of which those payments were made.

(2) The payments specified for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) are—

(a)any grant income and covenant income as defined for the purposes of Chapter VIII of Part V;

[F1907(b)any student loan as defined in Chapter VIII of Part V;]]

[F1907(c)any contribution as defined in Chapter VIII of Part V which—

(i)is taken into account in ascertaining the amount of a student loan referred to in head (b); and

(ii)has been paid.]

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F190862.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F190962A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F191063.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F191164.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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[F191264.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), in the case of a person who is receiving, or who has received, assistance under [F1913the self-employment route], any payment to the person—

(a)to meet expenses wholly and necessarily incurred whilst carrying on the commercial activity;

(b)which is used or intended to be used to maintain repayments on a loan taken out by that person for the purpose of establishing or carrying on the commercial activity,

in respect of which such assistance is or was received.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall apply only in respect of payments which are paid to that person from the special account as defined for the purposes of Chapter IVA of Part V.]

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F191465.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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[F191566.  Any payment made with respect to a person on account of the provision of after-care under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or [F1916section 25 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003] or the provision of accommodation or welfare services to which [F1917Part III of the National Assistance Act 1948 refers or to which the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 refers], [F1918or the provision of care and support under Part 1 of the Care Act 2014 (care and support)] [F1919, or the provision of care and support in respect of an adult under Part 4 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (meeting needs)] which falls to be treated as notional income under paragraph (4A) of regulation 42 above (payments made in respect of a person [F1920living in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital]).]

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[F192169.(1) Any payment of a sports award except to the extent that it has been made in respect of any one or more of the items specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) The items specified for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) are food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel, rent for which housing benefit is payable or any housing costs to the extent that they are met under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs) F1922..., of the claimant or, where the claimant is a member of a family, any other member of his family, or any council tax or water charges for which that claimant or member is liable.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)—

“food" does not include vitamins, minerals or other special dietary supplements intended to enhance the performance of the person in the sport in respect of which the award was made;

“ordinary clothing and footwear" means clothing or footwear for normal daily use but does not include school uniforms or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities.]

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F192370.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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[F192471.  Where the amount of a subsistence allowance paid to a person in a benefit week exceeds the amount of income-based jobseeker’s allowance that person would have received in that benefit week had it been payable to him, less 50p, that excess amount.]

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[F192472.  In the case of a claimant participating in an employment zone programme, any discretionary payment made by an employment zone contractor to the claimant, being a fee, grant, loan or otherwise.]

[F192573.(1) Any payment of child maintenance made or derived from a liable relative where the child or young person in respect of whom the payment is made is a member of the claimant’s family, except where the person making the payment is the claimant or the claimant’s partner.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

“child maintenance” means any payment towards the maintenance of a child or young person, including any payment made voluntarily and payments made under—

(a)

the Child Support Act 1991;

(b)

the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;

(c)

a court order;

(d)

a consent order;

(e)

a maintenance agreement registered for execution in the Books of Council and Session or the sheriff court books;

“liable relative” means a person listed in regulation 54 (interpretation) other than a person falling within sub-paragraph (d) of that definition.]

Textual Amendments

F1925Sch. 9 para. 73 substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(6)(a), 2(17)(d)

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[F192674.  In the case of a person to whom paragraph (5) of regulation 6 (persons not treated as in remunerative work) applies, the whole of his income.]

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[F192775.  Any discretionary housing payment paid pursuant to regulation 2(1) of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001.]

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[F192876.[F1929(1) Any payment made by a local authority, or by the [F1930Welsh Ministers], to or on behalf of the claimant or his partner relating to a service which is provided to develop or sustain the capacity of the claimant or his partner to live independently in his accommodation.]

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) “local authority” includes, in England, a county council.]

[F193176A.  Armed forces independence payment]

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F193277.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F193378.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F193479.  Any payments to a claimant made under section 49 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (personal budgets and direct payments)]

[F193580.  Any bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014 (bereavement support payment) except any such payment which is disregarded as capital under paragraph 7(1)(f) or 72 of Schedule 10.]

Textual Amendments

[F193681.  Any payment of carer’s allowance supplement made under section 81 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.]

[F193782.  Any early years assistance given in accordance with section 32 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.]

[F193883.  Any funeral expense assistance given in accordance with section 34 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.]

[F193984.  Any Scottish child payment assistance given in accordance with section 79 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.]

[F194085.  Any short-term assistance given in accordance with regulations made under section 36 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.]

[F194186.  Any disability assistance given in accordance with regulations made under section 31 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.]

[F194287.  Any amount of carer support payment that is in excess of the amount the claimant would receive if they had an entitlement to carer’s allowance under section 70 of the Contributions and Benefits Act.]

Regulation 46(2)

SCHEDULE 10E+W+SCAPITAL TO BE DISREGARDED

1.  The dwelling occupied as the home but, notwithstanding regulation 23 (calculation of income and capital of members of claimant's family and of a polygamous marriage), only one dwelling shall be disregarded under this paragraph.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I118Sch. 10 para. 1 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F19431A.  Any payment in respect of any travel or other expenses incurred, or to be incurred, by the claimant in respect of that claimant’s participation in [F1944a scheme prescribed in regulation 3 of the Jobseeker's Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013] or the Mandatory Work Activity Scheme, but only for 52 weeks beginning with the date of receipt of the payment.]E+W+S

2.  Any premises acquired for occupation by the claimant which he intends to occupy [F1945as his home] within 26 weeks of the date of acquisition or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable the claimant to obtain possession and commence occupation of the premises.E+W+S

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I119Sch. 10 para. 2 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

3.  Any sum directly attributable to the proceeds of sale of any premises formerly occupied by the claimant as his home which is to be used for the purchase of other premises intended for such occupation within 26 weeks of the date of sale or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable the claimant to complete the purchase.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I120Sch. 10 para. 3 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

4.  Any premises occupied in whole or in part by—E+W+S

(a)a partner or relative of [F1946a single claimant or any member of] the family [F1947as his home] where that person [F1948has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit] or is incapacitated;

(b)the former partner of a claimant F1949... as his home; but this provision shall not apply where the former partner is a person from whom the claimant is estranged or divorced [F1950or with whom he formed a civil partnership that has been dissolved].

[F19515.  Any future interest in property of any kind, other than land or premises in respect of which the claimant has granted in subsisting lease or tenancy, including sub-leases or sub-tenancies,]E+W+S

6.—(1) The assets of any business owned in whole or in part by the claimant and for the purposes of which he is engaged as a self-employed earner or, if he has ceased to be so engaged, for such period as may be reasonable in the circumstances to allow for disposal of any such asset.E+W+S

[F1952(2) The assets of any business owned in whole or in part by the claimant where–

(a)he is not engaged as a self-employed earner in that business by reason of some disease or bodily or mental disablement; but

(b)he intends to become engaged (or, as the case may be, re-engaged) as a self-employed earner in that business as soon as he recovers or is able to become engaged, or re-engaged, in that business;

for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which the claim for income support is made, or is treated as made, or, if it is unreasonable to expect him to become engaged or re-engaged in that business within that period, for such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable him to become so engaged or re-engaged.]

[F1953(3) In the case of a person who is receiving assistance under [F1954the self-employment route], the assets acquired by that person for the purpose of establishing or carrying on the commercial activity in respect of which such assistance is being received.

(4) In the case of a person who has ceased carrying on the commercial activity in respect of which assistance was received as specified in sub-paragraph (3), the assets relating to that activity for such period as may be reasonable in the circumstances to allow for disposal of any such asset.]

7.[F1955(1)  Subject to sub-paragraph (2),] any arrears of, or any concessionary payment made to compensate for arrears due to the non-payment of—E+W+S

(a)any payment specified in paragraph [F19566, 8, [F19579, 76A, [F195884, 85 or 86]] of Schedule 9] (other income to be disregarded);

[F1959(b)an income-related benefit [F1960, an income-related employment and support allowance] or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, child tax credit or working tax credit under Part 1 of the Tax Credits Act 2002;]

F1961(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F1962(d)any discretionary housing payment paid pursuant to regulation 2(1) of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001][F1963;

(e)universal credit]

[F1964(f)bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014,]

[F1965(g)maternity allowance under section 35 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (state maternity allowance for employed or self-employed earner),]

but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of the receipt of the arrears or of the concessionary payment.

[F1966(2) In a case where the total of any arrears and, if appropriate, any concessionary payment referred to in sub-paragraph (1) relating to any one of the specified payments, benefits or allowances amounts to £5,000 or more (referred to in this sub-paragraph and in sub-paragraph (3) as the “relevant sum”) and is—

[F1967(a)paid in order to rectify, or to compensate for—

(i)an official error as defined in regulation 1(3) of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999, or

(ii)an error on a point of law; and]

(b)received by the claimant in full on or after 14th October 2001,

sub-paragraph (1) shall have effect in relation to such arrears or concessionary payment either for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt, or, if the relevant sum is received in its entirety during the award of income support, for the remainder of that award if that is a longer period.]

[F1966(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), “the award of income support” means—

(a)the award [F1968of any of] income support [F1969, an income-related employment and support allowance] [F1970, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or universal credit] in which the relevant sum (or first part thereof where it is paid in more than one instalment) is received, and

(b)where that award is followed by one or more further awards which in each case may be [F1971any] of income support [F1972, an income-related employment and support allowance] [F1970, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or universal credit] and which, or each of which, begins immediately after the end of the previous award, such further awards until the end of the last such award, provided that for any such further awards the claimant—

(i)is the person who received the relevant sum, or

(ii)is the partner of the person who received the relevant sum, or was that person’s partner at the date of his death, or

(iii)in the case of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance, is a joint-claim couple either member or both members of which received the relevant sum] [F1973, or

(iv)in a case where universal credit is awarded to the claimant and another person as joint claimants, either the claimant or the other person, or both of them, received the relevant sum.]

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C135Sch. 10 para. 7(1) applied (with modifications) (28.2.2003) by S.I. 1992/2977, Sch. 4 para. 6 (as substituted (S.) by The National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/69), regs. 1(1), 2)

Commencement Information

I123Sch. 10 para. 7 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F19747A.  Any payment of a widowed parent’s allowance made pursuant to section 39A of the Contributions and Benefits Act (widowed parent’s allowance)—E+W+S

(a)to the survivor of a cohabiting partnership (within the meaning in section 39A(7) of the Contributions and Benefits Act) who is entitled to a widowed parent’s allowance for a period before the Bereavement Benefits (Remedial) Order 2023 comes into force, and

(b)in respect of any period of time during the period ending with the day before the survivor makes the claim for a widowed parent’s allowance,

but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.]

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(a)paid to the claimant in consequence of damage to, or loss of the home or any personal possession and intended for its repair or replacement; or

(b)acquired by the claimant (whether as a loan or otherwise) on the express condition that it is to be used for effecting essential repairs or improvements to the home,and which is to be used for the intended purpose, for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which it was so paid or acquired or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable the claimant to effect the repairs, replacement or improvements.

Commencement Information

I124Sch. 10 para. 8 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

9.  Any sum—E+W+S

(a)deposited with a housing association as defined in section 1(1) of the Housing Associations Act 1985 F1975 or section 338(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 F1976 as a condition of occupying the home;

(b)which was so deposited and which is to be used for the purchase of another home, for the period of 26 weeks or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to complete the purchase.

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Commencement Information

I125Sch. 10 para. 9 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

10.  Any personal possessions except those which had or have been acquired by the claimant with the intention of reducing his capital in order to secure entitlement to F1977... income support or to increase the amount of that benefit.E+W+S

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Commencement Information

I126Sch. 10 para. 10 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

11.  The value of the right to receive any income under an annuity and the surrender value (if any) of such an annuity.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I127Sch. 10 para. 11 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F197812.  Where the funds of a trust are derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant [F1979or the claimant’s partner], the value of the trust fund and the value of the right to receive any payment under that trust.]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1979Words in Sch. 10 para. 12 inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(11)(a)

Commencement Information

I128Sch. 10 para. 12 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F198012A.(1) Any payment made to the claimant or the claimant’s partner in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant or, as the case may be, the claimant’s partner.E+W+S

(2) But sub-paragraph (1)—

(a)applies only for the period of 52 weeks beginning with the day on which the claimant first receives any payment in consequence of that personal injury;

(b)does not apply to any subsequent payment made to him in consequence of that injury (whether it is made by the same person or another);

(c)ceases to apply to the payment or any part of the payment from the day on which the claimant no longer possesses it;

(d)does not apply to any payment from a trust where the funds of the trust are derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(c), the circumstances in which a claimant no longer possesses a payment or a part of it include where the claimant has used a payment or part of it to purchase an asset.

(4) References in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) to the claimant are to be construed as including references to his partner (where applicable).]

Textual Amendments

F1980Sch. 10 para. 12A inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(11)(b)

13.  The value of the right to receive any income under a life interest or from a liferent.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I129Sch. 10 para. 13 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

14.  The value of the right to receive any income which is disregarded under paragraph 11 of Schedule 8 or paragraph 23 of Schedule 9 (earnings or other income to be disregarded).E+W+S

Commencement Information

I130Sch. 10 para. 14 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

15.  The surrender value of any policy of life insurance.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I131Sch. 10 para. 15 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

16.  Where any payment of capital falls to be made by instalments, the value of the right to receive any outstanding instalments.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I132Sch. 10 para. 16 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F198117.(1) Any payment made by a local authority in accordance with—E+W+S

(a)section 17, 23B, 23C or 24A of the Children Act 1989,

(b)section 12 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, F1982...

(c)section [F198326A,] 29 or 30 of the Children (Scotland) Act [F19841995, or

(d)the following sections of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014—

(aa)section 37 or 38, but excluding any direct payment made in accordance with regulations made under section 51 of that Act, or

(bb)section 109, 110, 114 or 115.]

(2) Any payment (or part of a payment) made by a local authority in accordance with section 23C of the Children Act 1989 [F1985or section 26A or 29 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (local authorities’ duty to promote welfare of children, duty to provide continuing care and provision of advice and assistance for certain young persons)] to a person (“A”) which A passes on to the claimant.

(3) Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to the following provisions.

(4) Neither of those sub-paragraphs applies where the claimant is a person—

(a)to whom section 126 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (trade disputes) applies, or

(b)in respect of whom section 124(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 127 of that Act (effect of return to work).

(5) Sub-paragraph (2) applies only where A—

(a)was formerly in the claimant’s care, and

[F1986(b)is aged 18 or over or, in the case of a payment or part of a payment made in accordance with section 26A of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, aged 16 or over, and]

(c)continues to live with the claimant.]

[F198718.  Any social fund payment made pursuant to [F1988Part 8 of the Contributions and Benefits Act].]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I133Sch. 10 para. 18 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F198918A.  Any local welfare provision.]E+W+S

19.  Any refund of tax which falls to be deducted under [F1990section 369 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (mortgage interest payable under deduction of tax)] on a payment of relevant loan interest for the purpose of acquiring an interest in the home or carrying out repairs or improvements in the home.E+W+S

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I134Sch. 10 para. 19 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

20.  Any capital which under [F1991regulation 41[F1992, 44(1)] or 66A (capital treated as income[F1992, modifications in respect of children and young persons] or treatment of student loans)] is to be treated as income.E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1992Words in Sch. 10 para. 20 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 1 para. 24(b)

Commencement Information

I135Sch. 10 para. 20 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

21.  Where a payment of capital is made in a currency other than sterling, any banking charge or commission payable in converting that payment into sterling.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I136Sch. 10 para. 21 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1

[F199322.(1) Any payment made under [F1994or by] the Macfarlane Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No. 2) Trust (“the Trusts"), [F1995the Fund] [F1996, the Eileen Trust] [F1997, MFET Limited] [F1998, the Independent Living [F1999Fund (2006)] [F2000, the Skipton Fund [F2001, the Caxton Foundation] [F2002, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F2003, an approved blood scheme] [F2004, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund] [F2005the National Emergencies Trust,] [F2006, the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme] or the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund]].E+W+S

[F2007(1A) Any Grenfell Tower payment [F2008, child abuse payment, Windrush payment] [F2009, Post Office compensation payment or vaccine damage payment] or any payment made by the Child Migrants Trust (registered charity number 1171479) under the scheme for former British child migrants.]

(2) Any payment by or on behalf of a person who is suffering or who suffered from haemophilia [F1995or who is or was a qualifying person], which derives from a payment made under [F1994or by] any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers [F2010, or from a Grenfell Tower payment [F2011, a child abuse payment [F2012, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] ,] and which is made to or for the benefit of—

(a)that person’s partner or former partner from whom he is not, or where that person has died was not, estranged or divorced [F2013or with whom he has formed a civil partnership that has not been dissolved or, where that person has died, had not been dissolved at the time of that person's death];

(b)any child who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the claimant’s family; or

(c)any young person who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the claimant’s family.

(3) Any payment by or on behalf of the partner or former partner of a person who is suffering or who suffered from haemophilia [F2014or who is or was a qualifying person] provided that the partner or former partner and that person are not, or if either of them has died were not, estranged or divorced [F2015or, where the partner or former partner and that person have formed a civil partnership, the civil partnership has not been dissolved or, if either of them has died, had not been dissolved at the time of the death], which derives from a payment made under [F1994or by] any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers [F2016, or from a Grenfell Tower payment [F2011, a child abuse payment [F2012, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] ,] and which is made to or for the benefit of—

(a)the person who is suffering from haemophilia [F2017or who is a qualifying person];

(b)any child who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the claimant’s family; or

(c)any young person who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the claimant’s family.

(4) Any payment by a person who is suffering from haemophilia [F2018or who is a qualifying person], which derives from a payment under [F1994or by] any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers, [F2019or from a Grenfell Tower payment [F2011, a child abuse payment [F2012, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] ,] where—

(a)that person has no partner or former partner from whom he is not estranged or divorced [F2020or with whom he has formed a civil partnership that has not been dissolved], nor any child or young person who is or had been a member of that person’s family; and

(b)the payment is made either—

(i)to that person’s parent or step-parent, or

(ii)where that person at the date of the payment is a child, a young person or a [F2021full-time student] who has not completed his full-time education and has no parent or step-parent, to his guardian,

but only for a period from the date of the payment until the end of two years from that person’s death.

(5) Any payment out of the estate of a person who suffered from haemophilia [F2018or who was a qualifying person], which derives from a payment under [F1994or by] any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers, [F2022or from a Grenfell Tower payment [F2011, a child abuse payment [F2012, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] ,] where—

(a)that person at the date of his death (the relevant date) had no partner or former partner from whom he was not estranged or divorced [F2023or with whom he had formed a civil partnership that had not been dissolved], nor any child or young person who was or had been a member of his family; and

(b)the payment is made either—

(i)to that person’s parent or step-parent, or

(ii)where that person at the relevant date was a child, a young person or a [F2024full-time student] who had not completed his full-time education and had no parent or step-parent, to his guardian,

but only for a period of two years from the relevant date.

[F2025(5A) Any payment out of the estate of a person, which derives from a payment to meet the recommendation of the Infected Blood Inquiry in its interim report published on 29th July 2022 made under or by the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme or an approved blood scheme to the estate of the person, where the payment is made to the person’s son, daughter, step-son or step-daughter.]

(6) In the case of a person to whom or for whose benefit a payment referred to in this paragraph is made, any capital resource which derives from any payment of income or capital made under or deriving from any of the Trusts [F2026or from a Grenfell Tower payment] [F2011, a child abuse payment [F2012, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment or a vaccine damage payment]] .]

[F2027(7) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2) to (6), any reference to the Trusts shall be construed as including a reference to the Fund [F2028, the Eileen Trust [F2029, MFET Limited] [F2030, the Skipton Fund] [F2031, the Caxton Foundation] [F2032, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F2033, an approved blood scheme] [F2034, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund] [F2035, the National Emergencies Trust] [F2036, the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme] and the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund].]

Textual Amendments

F203722A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F203823.  The value of the right to receive an occupational [F2039or personal] pension.]E+W+S

[F204023A.  The value of any funds held under a personal pension scheme F2041....]E+W+S

[F203824.  The value of the right to receive any rent [F2042except where the claimant has a reversionary interest in the property in respect of which rent is due.]] E+W+S

[F204325.  Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following his estrangement or divorce from [F2044, or dissolution of his civil partnership with,] his former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he ceased to occupy that dwelling] [F2045or, where that dwelling is occupied as the home by the former partner who is a lone parent, for as long as it is so occupied.]E+W+S

[F204326.  Any premises where the claimant is taking reasonable steps to dispose of those premises, for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he first took such steps, or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable him to dispose of those premises.]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

[F204627.  Any premises which the claimant intends to occupy as his home, and in respect of which he is taking steps to obtain possession and has sought legal advice or has commenced legal proceedings, with a view to obtaining possession, for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he first sought such advice or first commenced such proceedings whichever is earlier, or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable him to obtain possession and commence occupation of those premises.]E+W+S

[F204328.  Any premises which the claimant intends to occupy as his home to which essential repairs or alterations are required in order to render them fit for such occupation, for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which the claimant first takes steps to effect those repairs or alterations, or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable those repairs or alterations to be carried out and the claimant to commence occupation of the premises.]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

[F204729.  Any payment in kind [F2048which is a Grenfell Tower payment [F2049, child abuse payment or Windrush payment] or] made by a charity [F2050or under [F2051or by] the Macfarlane (Special Payments) Trust] [F2052, the Macfarlane (Special Payments) (No. 2) Trust [F2053the Fund] [F2054, MFET Limited] [F2055, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation] [F2056, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme] [F2057, an approved blood scheme] F2058... or the Independent Living Fund (2006)].] E+W+S

Textual Amendments

[F205930.  Any payment made pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990, but only for the period of 52 weeks beginning on the date of receipt of the payment.]E+W+S

[F204731.  Any payment made by the Secretary of State to compensate for the loss (in whole or in part) of entitlement to housing benefit.]E+W+S

F206032.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

F206033.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F206134.  Any payment made to a juror or a witness in respect of attendance at a court other than compensation for loss of earnings or for the loss of a benefit payable under the benefit Acts.]E+W+S

F206235.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F206336.  Any payment in consequence of a reduction of F2064... [F2065council tax under section 13 [F2066, 13A] or, as the case may be, section 80 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (reduction of liability for council tax),] but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of the receipt of the payment.]E+W+S

[F206737.  Any grant made to the claimant in accordance with a scheme made under section 129 of the Housing Act 1988 or section 66 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (schemes for payments to assist local housing authority and local authority tenants to obtain other accommodation) which is to be used—E+W+S

(a)to purchase premises intended for occupation as his home; or

(b)to carry out repairs or alterations which are required to render premises fit for occupation as his home

for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which he received such a grant or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable the purchase, repairs or alterations to be completed and the claimant to commence occupation of those premises as his home.]

Textual Amendments

F2067Sch. 10 para. 37 added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/547), regs. 1(1)(b), 23(b)

[F206838.(1) Any payment or repayment made—E+W+S

(a)as respects England, under regulation 5, 6 or 12 of the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003 (travelling expenses and health service supplies);

(b)as respects Wales, under regulation 5, 6 or 11 of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (travelling expenses and health service supplies);

(c)as respects Scotland, under regulation 3, 5 or 11 of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (travelling expenses and health service supplies),

but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment or repayment.

(2) Any payment or repayment made by the Secretary of State for Health [F2069and Social Care], the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers which is analogous to a payment or repayment mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment or repayment.]

[F206839.  Any payment made to such persons entitled to receive benefits as may be determined by or under a scheme made pursuant to section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 in lieu of vouchers or similar arrangements in connection with the provision of those benefits (including payments made in place of healthy start vouchers, milk tokens or the supply of vitamins), but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.]E+W+S

[F207039A.  Any payment made under Part 8A of the Contributions and Benefits Act (entitlement to health in pregnancy grant).]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F2070Sch. 10 para. 39A inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/583), reg. 2(14)(a)

[F207140.  Any payment made either by the Secretary of State for [F2072Justice] or by the [F2073Scottish Ministers] under a scheme established to assist relatives and other persons to visit persons in custody, but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.]E+W+S

[F207441.  Any arrears of supplementary pension which is disregarded under paragraph 54 of Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) or of any amount which is disregarded under paragraph 55 or 56 of that Schedule, but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the arrears.]E+W+S

[F207542.  Any payment (other than a training allowanceF2076...) made, whether by the Secretary of State or by any other person, under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 F2077... to assist disabled persons to obtain or retain employment despite their disability.]E+W+S

[F207543.  Any payment made by a local authority under section 3 of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1958 [F2078or under Part 4 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014] to homeworkers assisted under the Blind Homeworkers' Scheme.]E+W+S

[F207944.(1) Any sum of capital to which sub-paragraph (2) applies and—E+W+S

(a)which is administered on behalf of a person by the High Court or the County Court under Rule 21.11(1) of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 or by the Court of Protection;

(b)which can only be disposed of by order or direction of any such court; or

(c)where the person concerned is under the age of 18, which can only be disposed of by order or direction prior to that person attaining age 18.

(2) This sub-paragraph applies to a sum of capital which is derived from—

(a)an award of damages for a personal injury to that person; or

(b)compensation for the death of one or both parents where the person concerned is under the age of 18.]

Textual Amendments

F2079Sch. 10 para. 44 substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2378), reg. 5(11)(c)

[F208045.  Any sum of capital administered on behalf of a person F2081... in accordance with an order made under [F2082section 13 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995], or under Rule 36.14 of the Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 or under Rule 128 of the Ordinary Cause Rules, where such sum derives from—E+W+S

(a)an award of damages for a personal injury to that person; or

(b)compensation for the death of one or both parents [F2083where the person concerned is under the age of 18].]

Textual Amendments

F2080Sch. 10 paras. 44, 45 added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 33(b)

F2081Words in Sch. 10 para. 45 omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2197), regs. 1(2), 7(9)(a)(10)(e)

F2083Words in Sch. 10 para. 45 added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2197), regs. 1(2), 7(9)(b)(10)(e)

[F208446.  Any payment to the claimant as holder of the Victoria Cross or George Cross.]E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F208547.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

F208548.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

F208549.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

F208650.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

F208750A.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

F208851.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F208952.  In the case of a person who is receiving, or who has received, assistance under [F2090the self-employment route], any sum of capital which is acquired by that person for the purpose of establishing or carrying on the commercial activity in respect of which such assistance is or was received but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date on which that sum was acquired.]E+W+S

F209153.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F209256.(1) Any payment of a sports award for a period of 26 weeks from the date of receipt of that payment except to the extent that it has been made in respect of any one or more of the items specified in sub-paragraph (2).E+W+S

(2) The items specified for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) are food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel, rent for which housing benefit is payable or any housing costs to the extent that they are met under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs) F2093..., of the claimant or, where the claimant is a member of a family, any other member of his family, or any council tax or water charges for which that claimant or member is liable.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)—

“food" does not include vitamins, minerals or other special dietary supplements intended to enhance the performance of the person in the sport in respect of which the award was made;

“ordinary clothing and footwear" means clothing or footwear for normal daily use but does not include school uniforms or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities.]

F209457.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F209557.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F209658.   In the case of a claimant participating in an employment zone programme, any discretionary payment made by an employment zone contractor to the claimant, being a fee, grant, loan or otherwise, but only for the period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.] E+W+S

[F209659.  Any arrears of subsistence allowance paid as a lump sum but only for the period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.]E+W+S

[F209760.   Any payment made to a person under regulation 11 of the Social Security (Payments to Reduce Under-occupation) Regulations 2000, but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of payment.] E+W+S

[F209861.   Where an ex-gratia payment of £10,000 has been made by the Secretary of State on or after 1st February 2001 in consequence of the imprisonment or internment of— E+W+S

(a)the claimant;

(b)the claimant’s partner;

(c)the claimant’s deceased spouse [F2099or deceased civil partner]; or

(d)the claimant’s partner’s deceased spouse [F2099or deceased civil partner],

by the Japanese during the Second World War, £10,000.]

[F210062.  In the case of a person to whom paragraph (5) of regulation 6 (persons not treated as in remunerative work) applies, the whole of his capital.]E+W+S

[F210163.(1) Any payment—E+W+S

(a)by way of an education maintenance allowance made pursuant to—

(i)regulations made under section 518 of the Education Act 1996;

(ii)regulations made under section 49 or 73(f) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980;

[F2102(iii)directions made under section 73ZA of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 and paid under section 12(2)(c) of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992; F2103...]

(b)corresponding to such an education maintenance allowance, made pursuant to—

(i)section 14 or section 181 of the Education Act 2002; or

(ii)regulations made under section 181 of that Act[F2104; or

(c)in England, by way of financial assistance made pursuant to section 14 of the Education Act 2002.]

(2) Any payment, other than a payment to which sub-paragraph (1) applies, made pursuant to—

(a)regulations made under section 518 of the Education Act 1996;

(b)regulations made under section 49 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980; or

[F2105(c)directions made under section 73ZA of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 and paid under section 12(2)(c) of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992,]

in respect of a course of study attended by a child or a young person or a person who is in receipt of an education maintenance allowance [F2106or other payment] made pursuant to any provision specified in sub-paragraph (1).]

[F210764.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the amount of any trust payment made to a claimant or a member of a claimant’s family who is—E+W+S

(a)a diagnosed person;

(b)the diagnosed person’s partner or the person who was the diagnosed person’s partner at the date of the diagnosed person’s death;

(c)a parent of a diagnosed person, a person acting in the place of the diagnosed person’s parents or a person who was so acting at the date of the diagnosed person’s death; or

(d)a member of the diagnosed person’s family (other than his partner) or a person who was a member of the diagnosed person’s family (other than his partner) at the date of the diagnosed person’s death.

(2) Where a trust payment is made to—

(a)a person referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b), that sub-paragraph shall apply for the period beginning on the date on which the trust payment is made and ending on the date on which that person dies;

(b)a person referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c), that sub-paragraph shall apply for the period beginning on the date on which the trust payment is made and ending two years after that date;

(c)a person referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(d), that sub-paragraph shall apply for the period beginning on the date on which the trust payment is made and ending—

(i)two years after that date; or

(ii)on the day before the day on which that person—

(aa)ceases receiving full-time education; or

(bb)attains the age of [F210820],

whichever is the latest.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the amount of any payment by a person to whom a trust payment has been made, or of any payment out of the estate of a person to whom a trust payment has been made, which is made to a claimant or a member of a claimant’s family who is—

(a)the diagnosed person’s partner or the person who was the diagnosed person’s partner at the date of the diagnosed person’s death;

(b)a parent of a diagnosed person, a person acting in the place of the diagnosed person’s parents or a person who was so acting at the date of the diagnosed person’s death; or

(c)a member of the diagnosed person’s family (other than his partner) or a person who was a member of the diagnosed person’s family (other than his partner) at the date of the diagnosed person’s death,

but only to the extent that such payments do not exceed the total amount of any trust payments made to that person.

(4) Where a payment as referred to in sub-paragraph (3) is made to—

(a)a person referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(a), that sub-paragraph shall apply for the period beginning on the date on which that payment is made and ending on the date on which that person dies;

(b)a person referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(b), that sub-paragraph shall apply for the period beginning on the date on which that payment is made and ending two years after that date;

(c)a person referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(c), that sub-paragraph shall apply for the period beginning on the date on which that payment is made and ending—

(i)two years after that date; or

(ii)on the day before the day on which that person—

(aa)ceases receiving full-time education; or

(bb)attains the age of [F210920],

whichever is the latest.

(5) In this paragraph, a reference to a person—

(a)being the diagnosed person’s partner;

(b)being a member of the diagnosed person’s family; or

(c)acting in the place of the diagnosed person’s parents,

at the date of the diagnosed person’s death shall include a person who would have been such a person or a person who would have been so acting, but for the diagnosed person [F2110residing in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital] on that date.

(6) In this paragraph—

“diagnosed person" means a person who has been diagnosed as suffering from, or who, after his death, has been diagnosed as having suffered from, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease;

“relevant trust" means a trust established out of funds provided by the Secretary of State in respect of persons who suffered, or who are suffering, from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for the benefit of persons eligible for payments in accordance with its provisions;

“trust payment" means a payment under a relevant trust.]

[F211165.  The amount of a payment, other than a war pension F2112..., to compensate for the fact that the claimant, the claimant’s partner, the claimant’s deceased spouse [F2113or deceased civil partner] or the claimant’s partner’s deceased spouse [F2113or deceased civil partner]E+W+S

(a)was a slave labourer or a forced labourer;

(b)had suffered property loss or had suffered personal injury; or

(c)was a parent of a child who had died,

during the Second World War.]

[F211466.[F2115(1) Any payment made by a local authority, or by the [F2116Welsh Ministers], to or on behalf of the claimant or his partner relating to a service which is provided to develop or sustain the capacity of the claimant or his partner to live independently in his accommodation.]E+W+S

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) “local authority” includes, in England, a county council.]

[F211767.  Any payment made under [F2118sections 31 to 33 of the Care Act 2014 (direct payments) or under] F2119... regulations made under section 57 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 or [F2120as a direct payment as defined in section 4(2) of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013] [F2121, or under sections 12A to 12D of the National Health Service Act 2006 (direct payments for health care)] [F2122, or in accordance with regulations made under section 50 or 52 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (direct payments)].]E+W+S

[F212368.  Any payment made to the claimant pursuant to regulations under section 2(6)(b), 3 or 4 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.]E+W+S

[F212468A.  Any payment made to the claimant in accordance with regulations made pursuant to section 14F of the Children Act 1989 (special guardianship support services).]E+W+S

F212569.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

F212670.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S

[F212771.  Any payments to a claimant made under section 49 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (personal budgets and direct payments)]E

[F212872.[F2129(1)]  Any bereavement support payment in respect of the rate set out in regulation 3(2) or (5) of the Bereavement Support Payment Regulations 2017 (rate of bereavement support payment), but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.]E+W+S

[F2130(2) Where bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014 is paid to the survivor of a cohabiting partnership (within the meaning in section 30(6B) of the Pensions Act 2014) in respect of a death occurring before the day the Bereavement Benefits (Remedial) Order 2023 comes into force, any amount of that payment which is—

(a)in respect of the rate set out in regulation 3(1) of the Bereavement Support Payment Regulations 2017, and

(b)paid as a lump sum for more than one monthly recurrence of the day of the month on which their cohabiting partner died,

but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.]

[F213173.  Any payment made under or by a trust, established for the purpose of giving relief and assistance to disabled persons whose disabilities were caused by the fact that during their mother’s pregnancy she had taken a preparation containing the drug known as Thalidomide, and which is approved by the Secretary of State.]E+W+S

[F213274.  Any payment made to a claimant under section 73(1)(b) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (kinship care assistance).]E+W+S

[F213375.  Any early years assistance given in accordance with section 32 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.]E+W+S

[F213476.  Any funeral expense assistance given in accordance with section 34 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.]E+W+S

[F213577.  Any assistance given in accordance with the Carer’s Assistance (Young Carer Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2019.]E+W+S

[F213678.  Any winter heating assistance given in accordance with regulations made under section 30 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.]E+W+S

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations provide for various matters concerning entitlement to, and the amount of, income support.

Part I contains general provisions affecting the citation, commencement and interpretation of the Regulations (regulations 1 to 3).

Part II prescribes the circumstances in which a person's entitlement is to continue notwithstanding his absence from Great Britain; provide for what is to be treated as remunerative work and relevant education; specifies the circumstances in which a person is not required to be available for employment, or is to be treated or not treated as in remunerative work, available for employment, or in relevant education; and also provides for a person under the age of 18 to be registered for employment (regulations 4 to 13).

Part III makes provision in respect of children and young persons and prescribes, for the purpose of determining the members of a family, the circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible for another or as a member of the same household (regulations 14 to 17).

Part IV provides for a claimant's applicable amount (by reference to which the amount of his income support is calculated) to consist of the following: a personal allowance for the claimant and members of his family; where applicable, a family, lone parent, pensioner or disability premium and an amount in respect of mortgage interest payments or other prescribed housing costs. It also makes special provision in the case of polygamous marriages, boarders, certain cases of disqualification from unemployment, and other special cases (regulations 17 to 22).

Part V contains provisions for the calculation of income and capital. Chapters II to V make provision for income not expressly disregarded to be taken into account on a weekly basis; define earnings and prescribe the manner in which earnings and other income are to be calculated; they also prescribe the circumstances in which capital is to be treated as income and a person is to be treated as possessing income which he in fact does not possess.

Chapter VI makes provision for the calculation of capital; sets the capital limit over which a person is not to be entitled to benefit at £6,000 and provides for a weekly tariff income on capital over £3,000 and under that limit at a rate of £1 for every £250. Chapters VII and VIII make special provision in relation to the calculation of payments made by liable relatives and in respect of students (regulations 23 to 69).

Part VI makes provision for persons from abroad and for persons who are treated as possessing earnings who could not otherwise qualify for income support to be entitled to income support in cases of hardship; and for determining their applicable amount and income and capital (regulations 70 to 72).

These regulations are made before the expiry of 12 months from the commencement of provisions under which they are made: they are accordingley exempt, by section 61(5) of the Social Security Act 1986, from reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee and have not been so referred.

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