PART VINCOME AND CAPITAL

CHAPTER VIIISTUDENTS

Calculation of grant income62.

(1)

The amount of a student's grant income to be taken into account shall, subject to paragraphs F1(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;

F2(b)

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(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 or rates 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 equipmentF3... F4...;

(h)

intended to meet travel expenses incurred as a result of his attendance on the course.

F5(2A)

Where a student does not have a student loan and is not treated as possessing such a loan, there shall be excluded from the student’s grant income—

(a)

the sum of F6£260 in respect of travel costs; and

F7(b)

the sum of £319 towards the costs of books and equipment,

whether or not any such costs are incurred.

F8(2B)

There shall also be excluded from a student’s grant income—

(a)

any grant of £250 for an only or eldest dependent child payable under regulation 15(1)(c) of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2001;

(b)

any grant of £500 in respect of expenditure on travel, books and equipment for the purpose of attending his course which is payable under regulation 15(8) of those Regulations;

(c)

any grant for child care costs payable under regulation 16 of those Regulations;

(d)

any grant in respect of a lone parent’s child care costs which is payable under regulation 4(1)(c) of the Students’ Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 1999 and which is specified as such on the student’s award notice.

(3)

F9Subject to paragraph (3B), a student’s grant income except any amount intended for the maintenance of dependants under Part III of Schedule 2 to the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1999 or 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 in that period;

(b)

in any other case, equally between the weeks in the period in respect of which it is payable.

F10(3A)

F11Any grant in respect of dependants 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 dependants or for an older student 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.

F12(3B)

Any amount intended for the maintenance of dependants 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 would have been apportioned had he had one.

(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 the remaining weeks in that period.