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

Business practice and regulation

Income support

Regulation and deregulation

Income tax

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2015-12-10

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

SCHEDULE 1

PART Iomission of references to board and lodging accommodation in the general regulations and consequential amendments

1

The words “board and lodging accommodation or” shall be omitted in the provisions specified in the following table—

TABLE

Provision	Description
Regulation 20(1)(a)	Persons in board and lodging accommodation or hostels.
Regulation 21(3), definition of “residential accommodation” (d)(iii)	Special cases.
Schedule 3 — paragraph 5(b) — paragraph 11(7)(b)	Housing costs.
Schedule 5 — paragraph 2(a) — paragraph 9—where those words occur in the second place — paragraph 10(2)(c)	Applicable amounts for persons in board and lodging accommodation.
Schedule 7 — paragraph 14, column (2)	Polish resettlement
— paragraph 16—where those words occur in both column (1) and column (2)	Applicable amounts in special cases.
— paragraph 18, column (1)	Persons in residential care or nursing homes, board and lodging accommodation or hostels who become patients.

2

In regulation 3(3) of the General Regulations (definition of non-dependant) for the words from “or a hostel” to the end there shall be substituted the words “or in a hostel within the meaning of regulation 20(2) (applicable amounts for persons in hostels) shall be a non-dependant.”.

3

In regulation 22(1)(b) (reductions in applicable amounts in cases of voluntary unemployment) and regulation 73(2) (amount of income support payable) the words “or board and lodging accommodation” shall be omitted.

4

In regulation 42(4)(a)(ii) (notional income) and regulation 51(3)(a)(ii) (notional capital) the words “or in board and lodging accommodation” shall be omitted.

5

In regulation 71(1)(b) (applicable amounts in urgent cases) the words “board and lodging accommodation,” shall be omitted.

6

In Schedule 3 (amounts in respect of housing costs) in paragraph 10(4)(a), the words “or is normally occupied by persons in board and lodging accommodation” shall be omitted.

7

In Schedule 5 (applicable amounts for persons in board and lodging accommodation)—

a

in paragraph 9 the words “in board and lodging accommodation or” shall be omitted;

b

in paragraph 10 in sub-paragraph (1) the words “board and lodging or” shall be omitted;

c

for paragraph 5 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

5
Subject to paragraphs 6 and 7, the maximum referred to in paragraph 1(1)(a) shall be—
a
in the case of a single claimant £70.00 per week;
b
where the claimant is a member of a family, in respect of each member of the family aged under 11, 1½ times the amount specified in paragraph 2(a) of Schedule 2, and in respect of each other member of the family, £70.00 per week.

8

In Schedule 8 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings)—

a

in paragraphs 4(1)(a) and (b)(i) and 5 the words “board and lodging accommodation” shall be omitted;

b

in paragraph 4(1)(b)(ii), for the words “hostel or board and lodging accommodation” there shall be substituted the words “or hostel”;

c

in paragraph 15 for the words “hostel or board and lodging accommodation” there shall be substituted the words “or hostel”.

9

In Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—

a

in paragraph 19, the words “or one who is provided with board and lodging accommodation” shall be omitted; and

b

in paragraph 30(d) the words “board and lodging,” shall be omitted.

10

The provisions specified in the following table shall be omitted—

TABLE

Provision	Description
The definitions of “board and lodging accommodation” and “board and lodging area” in regulation 20(2).	Persons in board and lodging accommodation or hostels.
Schedule 5, paragraphs 14, 16, 17 and 18.	Applicable amounts of persons in board and lodging accommodation.
Schedule 6.	Board and lodging areas.
Schedule 7, paragraphs 4 and 5.	Applicable amounts in special cases.