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2.—(1) [F2Subject to sub-paragraph (2) and the following paragraphs] of this Schedule, where the protected total of a claimant is more than—
(a)his applicable amount in the second week determined in accordance with the relevant provisions; and
(b)any eligible housing benefit for the period [F3of 7 consecutive days] beginning 10th April 1989,
the protected sum applicable to the claimant shall be an amount equal to the difference.
[F4(2) Where–
(a)in the second week a claimant’s income calculated in accordance with Part V or, as the case may be, VI exceeds the aggregate of his applicable amount determined in accordance with the relevant provisions and X; and
(b)the amount of income support to which he is entitled in the first week is more than the amount of housing benefit to which he would, but for this sub-paragraph, have been entitled in the period of 7 consecutive days beginning on 10th April 1989,
the protected sum applicable to the claimant shall, subject to sub-paragraph (3), be an amount equal to X+Y+10 pence.
(3) Where a claimant or his partner is, or both are, entitled in the first, second and third weeks to a relevant social security benefit or to more than one such benefit and consequent upon the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1989 the claimant or his partner is, or both are, entitled to an increase in any one or more of those benefits in the third week, the protected sum under sub-paragraph (2) shall be increased by an amount equal to the difference between–
(a)the amount of benefit or aggregate amount of those benefits to which the claimant or his partner is, or both are, entitled in the third week; and, if less,
(b)the amount of benefit or aggregate amount of those benefits to which the claimant or his partner is, or both are, entitled in the second week.
(4) In this paragraph–
“X” means the sum which, but for sub-paragraph (2), would be the protected sum applicable under sub-paragraph (1);
“Y” means the amount of the excess to which sub-paragraph (2)(a) refers;
“relevant social security benefit” means–
child benefit;
any benefit under the Social Security Act;
war disablement pension;
war widow’s pension;
any payment under a scheme made under the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975;
any concessionary payment.]]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 3A inserted (10.4.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1445), reg. 1(1)(c), Sch. 1 para. 14, Sch. 2 (with reg. 28)
F2Words in Sch. 3A para. 2 substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), regs. 1(1), 7(b)(i)
F3Words in Sch. 3A para. 2(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(1)(b) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), regs. 1(1), 7(b)(ii)
F4Sch. 3A para. 2(2)-(4) inserted (10.4.1989) by The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/534), regs. 1(1), 1(1)(b), 7(c)
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