PART VINCOME AND CAPITAL

CHAPTER Vother income

Capital treated as incomeI141

F61

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 exceeds £8,000 F7or, in a case where regulation 45(aa) applies, £12,000 or, in a case where regulation 45(b) applies, £16,000.

2

Any payment received under an annuity shall be treated as income.

3

In the case of a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies F1or 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 F3F8section 17, 23B, 23C or 24A of the Children Act 1989 or, as the case may be, section 12, 24 or 26 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (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.

F24

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.

F45

Any earnings to the extent that they are not a payment of income shall be treated as income.

F56

Any Career Development Loan paid pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 shall be treated as income.

F97

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.