17.—(1) Any payment made to the claimant or the claimant's partner in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant or, as the case may be, the claimant's partner.E+W+S
(2) But sub-paragraph (1)—
(a)applies only for the period of 52 weeks beginning with the day on which the claimant first receives any payment [F1in consequence of that personal injury];
(b)does not apply to any subsequent payment made to the claimant in consequence of that injury (whether it is made by the same person or another);
(c)ceases to apply to the payment or any part of the payment from the day on which the claimant no longer possesses it;
(d)does not apply to any payment from a trust where the funds of the trust are derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant.
(3) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (2)(c), the circumstances in which a claimant no longer possesses a payment or a part of it include where the claimant has used a payment or part of it to purchase an asset.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 9 para. 17(2)(a) substituted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2428), regs. 1(2), 19(a)