PART VIII INCOME AND CAPITAL

Chapter IXF4Students

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Ch. IX, Pt. VIII Title substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(bi)(bii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1922), regs. 1, 3(3)

Calculation of grant income131

1

The amount of a student’s grant income to be taken into account shall, subject to paragraphs F5(2) and (3), be the whole of his grant income.

2

There shall be disregarded from the amount of a student’s grant income any payment—

a

intended to meet tuition fees or examination fees;

b

intended to meet additional expenditure incurred by a disabled student in respect of his attendance on a course;

c

intended to meet additional expenditure connected with term time residential study away from the student’s educational establishment;

d

on account of the student maintaining a home at a place other than that at which he resides while attending his course but only to the extent that his rent is not met by housing benefit;

e

on account of any other person but only if that person is residing outside the United Kingdom and there is no applicable amount in respect of him;

f

intended to meet the cost of books and equipment F1... F2...

g

intended to meet travel expenses incurred as a result of his attendance on the course.

F18h

intended for the maintenance F21... of a child dependent.

F22i

intended for the child care costs of a child dependant.

F26j

of higher education bursary for care leavers made under Part III of the Children Act 1989.

F33

Where a student does not have a student loan and is not treated as possessing such a loan, there shall be excluded from the student’s grant income—

a

the sum of F27£303 per academic year in respect of travel costs; and

b

F8the sum of F28£390F25per academic year towards the costs of books and equipment,

whether or not any such costs are incurred.

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F243A

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F6Subject to paragraph (5A), a student’s grant income except for any amount intended for the maintenance of F15adult dependants under Part III of Schedule 2 to the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1999F16, or intended for an older student under Part IV of that Schedule, shall be apportioned—

a

subject to paragraph (6), in a case where it is attributable to the period of study, equally between the weeks F10in the period beginning with the benefit week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of the period of study and ending with the benefit week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of the period of study;

b

in any other case, equally between the weeks in the period F11beginning with the benefit week, the first day of which coincides with, or immediately follows, the first day of the period for which it is payable and ending with the benefit week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of the period for which it is payable.

5

F9Any grant paid under section 63(6) of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (grants in respect of the provision of instruction to officers of hospital authorities) and any amount intended for the maintenance of F19dependantsF19an adult dependantF20or for an older student under the provisions referred to in paragraph (4) shall be apportioned equally over a period of 52 weeks or, if there are 53 benefit weeks (including part-weeks) in the year, 53.

F75A

F12In a case where a student is in receipt of a student loan or where he could have acquired a student loan by taking reasonable steps but had not done so, any amount intended for the maintenance of F17dependantsF17an adult dependant under provisions other than those referred to in paragraphs (4) and (5), shall be apportioned over the same period as the student’s loan is apportioned orF13, as the case may be, would have been apportioned.

6

In the case of a student on a sandwich course, any periods of experience within the period of study shall be excluded and the student’s grant income shall be apportioned equally between F14the weeks in the period beginning with the benefit week, the first day of which immediately follows the last day of the period of experience and ending with the benefit week, the last day of which coincides with, or immediately precedes, the last day of the period of study.