Amendment of Schedule 9 to the principal Regulations

5.  Schedule 9 to the principal Regulations (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) shall be amended in the following respects—

(a) in paragraph 5 the following words shall be added at the end—

• “including any amount of housing benefit to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 7B of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (entitlement of a refugee to housing benefit)(1).”;

(b) in paragraph 52(2) the following words shall be added at the end—

• “including any amount of council tax benefit to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 4D of the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (entitlement of a refugee to council tax benefit)(3).”;

(c) after paragraph 56(4) the following paragraph shall be added—

“57.   Any amount of income support to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 21ZA above (treatment of refugees).”.

(1)

Regulation 7B was inserted by S.I. 1996/2432.

(2)

Paragraph 52 was inserted in Schedule 9 by S.I. 1993/315.

(3)

Regulation 4D was inserted by S.I. 1996/2432.

(4)

Paragraph 56 was added to Schedule 9 by S.I. 1994/2139.