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C1 Part VII Income-Related Benefits

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Pt. 7: power to modify conferred (1.7.1992) by Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5), ss. 150(7), 151, 192(4).

General

C3136F1 Income and capital.

1

Where a person claiming an income-related benefit is a member of a family, the income and capital of any member of that family shall, except in prescribed circumstances, be treated as the income and capital of that person.

2

Regulations may provide that capital not exceeding the amount prescribed under section 134(1) above but exceeding a prescribed lower amount shall be treated, to a prescribed extent, as if it were income of a prescribed amount.

3

Income and capital shall be calculated or estimated in such manner as may be prescribed.

4

A person’s income in respect of a week shall be calculated in accordance with prescribed rules; and the rules may provide for the calculation to be made by reference to an average over a period (which need not include the week concerned).

5

Circumstances may be prescribed in which—

a

a person is treated as possessing capital or income which he does not possess;

b

capital or income which a person does possess is to be disregarded;

c

income is to be treated as capital;

d

capital is to be treated as income.