The Social Security (Students and Income-related Benefits) Amendment Regulations 2006

Amendment of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations

2.—(1) The Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulations 46(3)(calculation of grant income) and 51(5) (treatment of student loans)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for “£280” substitute “£285”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (b) for “£352” substitute “£361”.

(3) For regulation 46(4) substitute—

“(4) There shall also be excluded from a student’s grant income the grant for dependants known as the parents' learning allowance paid pursuant to regulations made under Article 3 of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(2) or section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998(3).”.

(4) After regulation 51 insert the following regulation—

“Treatment of fee loans

51A.   A loan for fees, known as a fee loan or a fee contribution loan, made pursuant to regulations made under Article 3 of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 or section 73(f) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980(4), shall be disregarded as income.”.

(1)

S.I. 2006/215.

(2)

S.I. 1998/1760 (N.I. 14).

(3)

1998 c. 30.

(4)

1980 c. 44. Section 73(f) was amended by section 29 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 and by section 3 of the Education (Graduate Endowment and Student Support) (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp6).