The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996

Income-related benefits: Disregard of contribution to a student grant

10.—(1) In each of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) below, (disregard of contribution) for the words from “the income", where they first appear, to the end there is substituted—

, for the purposes of assessing a contribution to the student’s grant, the other partner’s income has been taken into account, an amount equal to that contribution shall be disregarded for the purposes of assessing that other partner’s income..

(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) above are—

(a)regulation 67 of the Income Support Regulations;

F1(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d)regulation 43 of the Family Credit Regulations;

(e)regulation 48 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations.