The Social Security (Residential Care Homes, Nursing Homes and Independent Hospitals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

6.  In regulation 42 (notional income) for paragraph (4A)(1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(4A) Where the claimant resides in a residential care home, nursing home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital, or is temporarily absent from such a home or hospital, any payment made by a person other than the claimant or a member of his family in respect of some or all of the cost of maintaining the claimant or his partner in that home or hospital shall be treated as possessed by the claimant or his partner..

(1)

Paragraph (4A) was inserted by regulation 4(4)(b) of S.R. 1994 No. 77 and amended by paragraph 10(h) of Schedule 1 to, S.R. 2003 No. 195