The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) Regulations 1994

Sums needed for personal requirements

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the sum which under section 22(4) of the Act a local authority shall assume that a person will need for his personal requirements shall be £13.10 per week.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person who, immediately before 11th April 1994, is a person to whom Part III of Schedule 1 to the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992(1) applies and whom a local authority determines is at that time liable to pay for his accommodation a protected amount within the meaning of that Schedule.

(3) The sum which under section 22(4) of the Act a local authority shall assume that a person to whom paragraph (2) applies will need for his personal requirements shall be £13.10 per week, except that in the case of any such person to whom there is payable—

(a) an attendance allowance by virtue of any entitlement thereto under section 64 of the Contributions and Benefits Act;

(b) a constant attendance allowance under any Personal Injuries Scheme, Service Pensions Instrument or any 1914-18 War Injuries Scheme; or

(c) the care component of a disability living allowance by virtue of any entitlement thereto under section 72 of the Contributions and Benefits Act,

that sum shall be increased by the amount per week which is payable in respect of that allowance or component, unless that amount is disregarded in an assessment of that person’s income by virtue of regulation 15(2) of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 3 to, the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992(1).

(1)

S.I. 1992/2977 as amended by S.I. 1993/964.