The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1168

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1990

Made

1st June 1990

Laid before Parliament

8th June 1990

Coming into force

regulations 1 and 2

2nd July 1990

regulations 3 and 4

13th August 1990

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 20(1)(a), 22(1) and 84(1) of the Social Security Act 1986(1), section 166(1) to (3A) of the Social Security Act 1975(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it(3), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1990 and shall, subject to paragraph (2), come into force as follows–

(a) regulations 1 and 2, on 2nd July 1990;

(b) regulations 3 and 4, on 13th August 1990.

(2) These Regulations shall come into force in relation to a particular claimant at the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after the date specified in paragraph (1) which applies in his case; and for this purpose the expressions “claimant” and “benefit week” have the same meanings as in the General Regulations.

(3) In these Regulations “the General Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(4).

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the General Regulations

2.  In Schedule 2 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts), in paragraph 1, for sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs–

“(1) Single claimant aged– (a) except where head (b) or (c) of this sub-paragraph applies, less than 18;(1)(a) £21.90;
(b) less than 18 who falls within any of the circumstances specified in Part II of Schedule 1A or who, had he been a registered person, would fall within any of those circumstances and who–	(b) £28.80;
(i) is eligible for income support under regulation 13A; or (ii) is the subject of a direction under section 20(4A) of the Act;
(c) less than 18 who satisfies the condition in paragraph 11(a);	(c) £28.80;
(d) not less than 18 but less than 25;	(d) £28.80;
(e) not less than 25.	(e) £36.70.
(2) Lone parent aged– (a) except where head (b) or (c) of this sub-paragraph applies, less than 18;	(1)(a) £21.90;
(b) less than 18 who falls within any of the circumstances specified in Part II of Schedule 1A or who, had he been a registered person, would fall within any of those circumstances and who–	(b) £28.80;
(i) is eligible for income support under regulation 13A; or (ii) is the subject of a direction under section 20(4A) of the Act;
(c) less than 18 who satisfies the condition in paragraph 11(a);	(c) £28.80;
(d) not less than 18.	(d) £36.70.”.

Amendment of Schedule 4 to the General Regulations

3.  In Schedule 4 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts of persons in residential care and nursing homes)–

(a) in paragraph 6–

(i) in sub-paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c), (e)(ii) and (f), for the figure “£150.00” in each of those sub-paragraphs there shall be substituted the figure “£155.00”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (1)(d), for the figure “£175.00” there shall be substituted the figure “£180.00”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (1)(e)(i), for the figure “£210.00” there shall be substi tuted the figure “£215.00”;

(iv) in sub-paragraph (2), for the figure “£165.00” there shall be substituted the figure “£170.00”;

(b) in paragraph 7–

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), (c), (d)(ii) and (f), for the figure “£200.00” in each of those sub-paragraphs there shall be substituted the figure “£210.00”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b), for the figure “£215.00” there shall be substituted the figure “£225.00”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (d)(i), for the figure “£245.00” there shall be substituted the figure “£255.00”;

(iv) in sub-paragraph (e), for the figure “£245.00” there shall be substituted the figure “£260.00”.

Amendment of Schedule 7 to the General Regulations

4.  In Schedule 7 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts in special cases) in paragraph 13A(2)(5) in column (2), in heads (a), (b)(i) and (b)(iii), for the figure “£150.00” there shall be substituted in each of those heads the figure “£155.00”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

1st June 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 by increasing to £28.80 the personal allowance for single claimants and lone parents under the age of 18 who are eligible for the disability premium (regulation 2). They also increase the maximum amounts applicable to persons living in residential care homes and nursing homes and to persons living in accommodation provided under the Polish Resettlement Act 1947(c. 19) (regulations 3 and 4).

(1)

1986 c. 50; section 84(1) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meanings assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

1975 c. 14; section 166(3A) was inserted by section 62 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50) and section 166(1) to (3A) is applied by section 83(1) of that Act.

(3)

See the Social Security Act 1986, section 61(1)(b) and (10); the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 8, added a definition of “regulations” to section 61(10) of the Act of 1986.

(4)

S.I. 1987/1967; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1989/1034, 1678, 1990/320.

(5)

Paragraph 13A was inserted by S.I. (1989/1678), regulation 11(c).