The Housing Renewal Grants (Prescribed Forms and Particulars) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE AMENDMENTS TO THE FORM ENTITLED “OWNER-OCCUPIER'S AND TENANT'S APPLICATIONS FOR HOUSING RENEWAL GRANTS”

1.  In question 3.31, insert in the appropriate place—

“Payment from access funds (students) £

£

Note 86D

(Please give details of what the payments are intended to cover, e.g. heating, meals)”.

2.  In question 3.34, for “and 90B”, substitute “, 90B and 90C”.

3.  After question 3.34, insert—

“3.34A   Please give details of any payment made to you or your partner on or at any time after 1 February 2001 relating to imprisonment or internment by the Japanese during the Second World War. Note 90D”

4.  In question 3.38, insert—

“

”

5.  In note 59, after the words “child benefit purposes”, insert “, or who is in the care of a local authority and has been placed with you by the authority”.

6.  In note 85, after “(provision of financial assistance to students)”, insert—

“;

• a grant for school meals for dependent children, or for meals for dependent children aged 3 or 4, paid by virtue of regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.(1)”.

7.  After note 86C, insert—

“86D.   You must include any payment from access funds intended to enable you as a student to meet ordinary living expenses - the cost of food, household fuel, rent, clothing, and footwear - water charges or the Council Tax. Access fund payments for these purposes are disregarded to the extent of £20 per week, but should be included in any case. You need not include any access fund payments that were for other purposes.”.

8.  After note 90B, insert—

“90C.   Please do not include—

• any lump sum payment of subsistence allowance payable in respect of participation in an employment zone programme;

• any payment in connection with a scheme to reduce under-occupation, made under regulation 11 of the Social Security (Payments to Reduce Under-occupation) Regulations 2000.(2)

90D.   Where an ex gratia payment of £10,000 has been made by the Secretary of State on or after 1 February 2001 in consequence of the imprisonment or internment by the Japanese in the Second World War of (a) you, (b) your partner, (c) a deceased spouse of yours, or (d) a deceased spouse of your partner, that sum will be disregarded as capital.”(3).

(1)

1998 c. 30

(2)

Social Security (Payments to Reduce Under-occupation) Regulations 2000, S.I. 2000/637.

(3)

The Social Security Amendment (Capital Disregards) Regulations 2001, S.I. 2001/22.