Income-related benefits: Treatment of student loans8

1

In each of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) (which provide for student loans to be treated as income) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted—

3

For the purposes of this regulation a student shall be treated as possessing the maximum amount of any loan referred to in paragraph (1) which he will be able to acquire in respect of an academic year by taking reasonable steps to do so.

2

The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are—

a

regulation 66A27 of the Income Support Regulations;

b

regulation 57A28 of the Housing Benefit Regulations;

c

regulation 42A29 of the Family Credit Regulations;

d

regulation 47 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations.