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The Social Security (Income Support and Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1995

Income support

Benefits

Disabled people

Disabled children

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2016-10-26

SOCIAL SECURITY

These Regulations make changes in the way housing costs are calculated for income support purposes. The major changes (all to Schedule 3 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (No.1967)) are—a standard rate of interest applies to all loans which qualify as housing costs;housing costs are divided into existing housing costs and new housing costs; existing housing costs are costs incurred under an agreement entered into before 2nd October 1995; new housing costs are costs incurred under an agreement entered into after 1st October 1995 (paragraph 1 of Schedule 3);in the case of existing housing costs, these costs are met at 50 per cent. where the claimant has been entitled to income support for a continuous period of 8 weeks or more, but less than 26 weeks, and in full thereafter;in the case of new housing costs, these are met where the claimant has been entitled to income support for a continuous period of 39 weeks (regulation 2 and Schedule 1).