http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1988/1445

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1445/regulation/19/made

The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988

Business practice and regulation

Income support

Regulation and deregulation

Income tax

Personal care

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2015-12-10

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These Regulations further amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 in the following respects:—they extend to members of polygamous marriages, persons in residential care or nursing homes, board and lodging accommodation and hostels and certain special cases, the provisions for increasing a person’s applicable amount where he would have been entitled to a transitional addition had certain capital disregards been in force on the introduction of the scheme (regulations 6, 21, 22(a) and 23); make a number of amendments consequential on this change (regulations 19(a) to (c), 20(a) and 23); and provide for a concessionary payment to be treated as if it were a payment of benefit in determining entitlement to the pensioner and disability premiums (regulation 19(d));they terminate, with effect from a person’s benefit week in the week beginning 10th April 1989, the arrangements for meeting the accommodation charge for board and lodging accommodation; and make provision for protecting the benefit entitlement of persons in such accommodation immediately before that date who would otherwise receive less benefit (regulations 27 and 28 and Schedules 1 and 2);they make a number of miscellaneous amendments to the provisions for the calculation of income and capital (regulations 2(a) and (b), 8 to 14, 16, 17 and 24 to 26); disregard the hours worked in certain employments in determining remunerative work (regulation 3); provide for periods of entitlement to income support of young persons previously members of the claimant’s family to be aggregated with his in determining eligibility for mortgage interest relief (regulation 20(b)); amend the definitions of residential accommodation and residential care home (regulations 2(c) and 7); make a consequential amendment as a result of the winding-up of the job release scheme (regulation 18) and certain other minor amendments (regulations 4, 5, 22(b) and (c)).

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the General Regulations19

In Schedule 2 to the General Regulations (applicable amounts) after the words “regulation 17” wherever they occur in that Schedule there shall be inserted “(1)”; and—

a

in paragraph 1 for “18(a)” there shall be substituted “18(1)(a)”;

b

in paragraph 2 for “18(c)” there shall be substituted “18(1)(c)”;

c

in paragraphs 3 and 4 for the words “and 18” wherever they occur in those paragraphs there shall be substituted “and 18(1)”;

d

after paragraph 14 (disabled child premium) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

Persons in receipt of concessionary payments14A
For the purpose of determining whether a premium is applicable to a person under paragraphs 12 to 14, any concessionary payment made to compensate that person for the non-payment of any benefit mentioned in those paragraphs shall be treated as if it were a payment of that benefit.