The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

1.  In addition to any sum which falls to be disregarded in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 6, £10 of any of the following, namely—

(a) a war disablement pension (except insofar as such a pension falls to be disregarded under paragraph 2 or 3);

[F1 (b) a war widow’s pension or [F2 war widower’s pension] ;]

(c) a pension payable to a person as a widow, widower or surviving civil partner under F3 ... any power of Her Majesty otherwise than under an enactment to make provision about pensions for or in respect of persons who have been disabled or have died in consequence of service as members of the armed forces of the Crown;

(d) a guaranteed income payment [F4 and, if the amount of that payment has been abated to less than £10 by a [F5 pension or payment falling within article 31(1)(a) or (b) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005], so much of [F6 that pension or payment] as would not, in aggregate with the amount of [F7 any] guaranteed income payment disregarded, exceed £10];

(e) a payment made to compensate for the non-payment of such a pension or payment as is mentioned in any of the preceding sub-paragraphs;

(f) a pension paid by the government of a country outside Great Britain which is analogous to any of the pensions or payments mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) above;

(g) a pension paid to victims of National Socialist persecution under any special provision made by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, or any part of it, or of the Republic of Austria.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(b) substituted (19.5.2008) by Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1042), regs. 1(2), 4(8)(a)

F2 Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(b) substituted (2.11.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(3)(b), 7(5)(a)

F3 Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(c) omitted (5.1.2009) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 7) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3157), regs. 1(1), 6(9)(a)(i)

F4 Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(d) inserted (5.1.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 7) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3157), regs. 1(1), 6(9)(a)(ii)

F5 Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(d) substituted (2.11.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(3)(b), 7(5)(b)(i)

F6 Words in Sch. 5 para. 1(d) substituted (2.11.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(3)(b), 7(5)(b)(ii)

F7 Word in Sch. 5 para. 1(d) substituted (2.11.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(3)(b), 7(5)(b)(iii)