The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 in the following respects:—

(a) they extend to members of polygamous marriages, persons in residential care or nursing homes, board and lodging accommodation and hostels and certain special cases, the provisions for increasing a person’s applicable amount where he would have been entitled to a transitional addition had certain capital disregards been in force on the introduction of the scheme (regulations 6, 21, 22(a) and 23); make a number of amendments consequential on this change (regulations 19(a) to (c), 20(a) and 23); and provide for a concessionary payment to be treated as if it were a payment of benefit in determining entitlement to the pensioner and disability premiums (regulation 19(d));

(b) they terminate, with effect from a person’s benefit week in the week beginning 10th April 1989, the arrangements for meeting the accommodation charge for board and lodging accommodation; and make provision for protecting the benefit entitlement of persons in such accommodation immediately before that date who would otherwise receive less benefit (regulations 27 and 28 and Schedules 1 and 2);

(c) they make a number of miscellaneous amendments to the provisions for the calculation of income and capital (regulations 2(a) and (b), 8 to 14, 16, 17 and 24 to 26); disregard the hours worked in certain employments in determining remunerative work (regulation 3); provide for periods of entitlement to income support of young persons previously members of the claimant’s family to be aggregated with his in determining eligibility for mortgage interest relief (regulation 20(b)); amend the definitions of residential accommodation and residential care home (regulations 2(c) and 7); make a consequential amendment as a result of the winding-up of the job release scheme (regulation 18) and certain other minor amendments (regulations 4, 5, 22(b) and (c)).

These Regulations are made before the expiry of 12 months from the commencement of the provisions under which they are made: they are accordingly 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.