C1C2C5C4SCHEDULE 2APPLICABLE AMOUNTS

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Sch. 2 applied (with modifications) (8.4.2013) by S.I. 2003/2382 (as amended (E.) by The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances), (Dental Charges) and (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/475), regs. 1(2)(b), 24(2))

C2PART Ipersonal allowances

Regulations 17F1(1)(a) and (b) and 18(a) (b) and (c)

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)

F7I1C31

The weekly amounts specified in column (2) below in respect of each person or couple specified in column (1) shall be the weekly amounts specified for the purposes of regulations 17(1) and 18(1) (applicable amounts and polygamous marriages)—

(1)

(2)

Person or Couple

Amount

1

Single claimant aged—

1

a

except where head (b) or (c) of this sub-paragraph applies, less than 18;

a

£71.70;

b

less than 18 who falls within any of the circumstances specified in paragraph 1A;

b

£71.70;

c

less than 18 who satisfies the condition in paragraph 11(1)(a);

c

£71.70;

d

not less than 18 but less than 25;

d

£71.70;

e

not less than 25.

e

£90.50.

2

Lone parent aged—

2

a

except where head (b) or (c) of this sub-paragraph applies, less than 18;

a

£71.70;

b

less than 18 who falls within any of the circumstances specified in paragraph 1A;

b

£71.70;

c

less than 18 who satisfies the condition in paragraph 11(1)(a);

c

£71.70;

d

not less than 18.

d

£90.50.

3

Couple—

3

a

where both members are aged less than 18 and—

i

at least one of them is treated as responsible for a child; or

ii

had they not been members of a couple, each would have qualified for income support under regulation 4ZA or income-related employment and support allowance; or

iii

the claimant’s partner satisfies the requirements of section 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (prescribed circumstances for persons aged 16 but less than 18); or

iv

there is in force in respect of the claimant’s partner a direction under section 16 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (persons under 18: severe hardship);

a

£108.30;

b

where both members are aged less than 18 and head (a) does not apply but one member of the couple falls within any of the circumstances specified in paragraph 1A;

b

£71.70;

c

where both members are aged less than 18 and heads (a) and (b) do not apply;

c

£71.70;

d

where both members are aged not less than 18;

d

£142.25;

e

where one member is aged not less than 18 and the other member is a person under 18 who—

i

qualifies for income support under regulation 4ZA or income-related employment and support allowance, or who would so qualify if he were not a member of a couple; or

ii

satisfies the requirements of section 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (prescribed circumstances for persons aged 16 but less than 18); or

iii

is the subject of a direction under section 16 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (persons under 18: severe hardship);

e

£142.25;

f

where the claimant is aged not less than 18 but less than 25 and his partner is a person under 18 who—

i

would not qualify for income support under regulation 4ZA or income-related employment and support allowance if he were not a member of a couple; and

ii

does not satisfy the requirements of section 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (prescribed circumstances for persons aged 16 but less than 18); and

iii

is not the subject of a direction under section 16 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (persons under 18: severe hardship);

f

£71.70;

g

where the claimant is aged not less than 25 and his partner is a person under 18 who—

i

would not qualify for income support under regulation 4ZA or income-related employment and support allowance if he were not a member of a couple; and

ii

does not satisfy the requirements of section 3(1)(f)(iii) of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (prescribed circumstances for persons aged 16 but less than 18); and

iii

is not the subject of a direction under section 16 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (persons under 18: severe hardship).

g

£90.50.

F21A

1

The circumstances referred to in paragraph 1 are that—

a

the person has no parents nor any person acting in the place of his parents;

b

the person—

i

is not living with his parents nor any person acting in the place of his parents; and

ii

in England and Wales, was being looked after by a local authority pursuant to a relevant enactment who placed him with some person other than a close relative of his; or in Scotland, was in the care of a local authority under a relevant enactment and whilst in that care was not living with his parents or any close relative, or was in custody in any institution to which the Prison Act 1952 or the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 applied immediately before he attained the age of 16;

c

the person is in accommodation which is other than his parental home, and which is other than the home of a person acting in the place of his parents, who entered that accommodation—

i

as part of a programme of rehabilitation or resettlement, that programme being under the supervision of the probation service or a local authority; or

ii

in order to avoid physical or sexual abuse; or

iii

because of a mental or physical handicap or illness and needs such accommodation because of his handicap or illness;

d

the person is living away from his parents and any person who is acting in the place of his parents in a case where his parents are or, as the case may be, that person is, unable financially to support him and his parents are, or that person is—

i

chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled; or

ii

detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction or under sentence imposed by a court; or

iii

prohibited from entering or re-entering Great Britain; or

e

the person of necessity has to live away from his parents and any person acting in the place of his parents because—

i

he is estranged from his parents and that person; or

ii

he is in physical or moral danger; or

iii

there is a serious risk to his physical or mental health.

2

In this paragraph—

a

“chronically sick or mentally or physically disabled” has the same meaning it has in regulation 13(3)(b) (circumstances in which persons in relevant education are to be entitled to income support);

b

in England and Wales, any reference to a person acting in place of a person’s parents includes a reference to—

i

where the person is being looked after by a local authority or voluntary organisation who place him with a family, a relative of his, or some other suitable person, the person with whom the person is placed, whether or not any payment is made to him in connection with the placement; or

ii

in any other case, any person with parental responsibility for the child, and for this purpose “parental responsibility” has the meaning it has in the Children Act 1989 by virtue of section 3 of that Act;

c

in Scotland, any reference to a person acting in place of a person’s parents includes a reference to a local authority or voluntary organisation where the person is in their care under a relevant enactment, or to a person with whom the person is boarded out by a local authority or voluntary organisation whether or not any payment is made by them.

I2F62

F5(1)The weekly amounts specified in column (2) below in respect of each person specified in column (1) shall, for the relevant period specified in column (1), be the weekly amounts specified for the purposes of regulations 17(1)(b) and 18(1)(c).

(1)

(2)

Child or Young Person

Amount

Person in respect of the period—

(a)

beginning on that person’s date of birth and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday;

(a)

F8£83.24

(b)

beginning on the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday and ending on the day preceding that person’s twentieth birthday.

(b)

F9£83.24.

F32

In column (1) of the table in paragraph (1), “the first Monday in September" means the Monday which first occurs in the month of September in any year.

F42A

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