PART 6Assessment of income and capital
SECTION 6
Capital
Calculation of capital44
1
For the purposes of Part 7 of the Act as it applies to housing benefit, the capital of a claimant to be taken into account shall, subject to paragraph (2), be the whole of his capital calculated in accordance with this Part.
2
There shall be disregarded from the calculation of the claimant's capital under paragraph (1) any capital, where applicable, specified in Schedule 6.
3
A claimant's capital shall be treated as including any payment made to him by way of arrears of—
a
child tax credit;
b
working tax credit;
c
state pension credit,
if the payment was made in respect of a period for the whole or part of which housing benefit was paid before those arrears were paid.