The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1999 No. 264

SCHEDULE 7 INCOME SUPPORT: APPLICABLE AMOUNTS IN SPECIAL CASES

PART IPROVISIONS IN SCHEDULE 7 TO THE INCOME SUPPORT REGULATIONS AS AMENDED BY THIS ORDER

Persons in residential care or nursing homes who become patients 18.  A claimant to whom regulation 19 (persons in residential care or nursing homes) applies immediately before he or a member of his family became a patient where— (a) he or any member of his family has been a patient for a period of six weeks or less and the claimant— (i) continues to be liable to meet the weekly charge for the accommodation without reduction in respect of himself or that member of his family who is a patient;