PART 2ENTITLEMENT

Financial conditions

Capital limit18.

(1)

For the purposes of section 5(1)(a) and (2)(a) of the Act (financial conditions: capital limit)—

(a)

the prescribed amount for a single claimant is £16,000; and

(b)

the prescribed amount for joint claimants is £16,000.

(2)

In a case where the claimant is a member of a couple, but makes a claim as a single person, the claimant's capital is to be treated as including the capital of the other member of the couple.