Amendments to the 1992 Regulations

3.  In Schedule 3 to the 1992 Regulations (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—

(a) after paragraph 4 insert—

“4A.   Any armed forces independence payment.”;

(b) in paragraph 11, after “Income Support Regulations (specified provisions)” insert—

• “save for paragraph 16(cc)”;

(c) after paragraph 11 insert—

“11A.   Any guaranteed income payment referred to in article 15(1)(c) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011.

11B.   Subject to paragraph 31, £10 of any survivor’s guaranteed income payment referred to in article 29(1)(a) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011 and, if the amount of that payment has been abated to less than £10 by a pension falling within article 39(1)(a) of that Order, so much of that pension as would not, in aggregate with the amount of any survivor’s guaranteed income payment disregarded, exceed £10.”; and

(d) in paragraph 31, for “paragraph 11” substitute “paragraphs 11 and 11B”.