The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

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Version Superseded: 02/10/2006

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[F115.—[F2(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) and paragraphs 36, 37 and 39, [F3£20] of any [F4relevant payment] made or due to be made at regular intervals, except any payment to which sub-paragraph (2) or paragraph 15A applies.]E+W+S

(2) Subject to [F5sub-paragraph (3)] and paragraph 39, any [F6relevant payment] made or due to be made at regular intervals which is intended and used for an item other than food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel, [F7council tax, water charges,] rent F8... for which [F9housing benefit is payable or] F10... any housing costs to the extent that they are met under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs) F11...F12..., of a single claimant or, as the case may be, of the claimant or any other member of his familyF13....

(3) Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) 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).

(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) where a number of [F14relevant payments] fall to be taken into account in any one week they shall be treated as though they were one such payment.

(5) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) 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.]

[F15(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.]

F16(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 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)

F2Sch. 9 para. 15(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), 23(3)(a)

F3Word in Sch. 9 para. 15(1) substituted (8.4.1996) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/462), regs. 1(2), 8(a)

F4Words in Sch. 9 para. 15(1) substituted (28.10.2002) by The Social Security Amendment (Personal Injury Payments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2442), regs. 1(1), 3(1)(a)(2)(c)

F5Words in Sch. 9 para. 15(2) substituted (8.4.2002) by The Social Security Amendment (Residential Care and Nursing Homes) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/3767), Sch. Pt. 1 para. 19(b)(i)(aa)

F6Words in Sch. 9 para. 15(2) substituted (28.10.2002) by The Social Security Amendment (Personal Injury Payments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2442), regs. 1(1), 3(1)(b)(2)(c)

F7Words in Sch. 9 para. 15(2) inserted (4.10.2004) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/2308), regs. 1(1), 2(1)(a)(2)(a)

F8Words in Sch. 9 para. 15(2) omitted (4.4.2005) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/574), regs. 1(1), 3(5)(b)

F9Words in Sch. 9 para. 15(2) substituted (8.4.2002) by The Social Security Amendment (Residential Care and Nursing Homes) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/3767), Sch. Pt. 1 para. 19(b)(i)(bb)

F10Words in Sch. 9 para. 15(2) omitted (7.10.1991) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/1559), regs. 1(1)(c), 20(a)(i) (with reg. 1(2))