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PART 1GENERAL

The applicable amount

11.—(1) The applicable amount in respect of any one application shall be the aggregate of –

(a)the total of the weekly applicable amounts of all those persons who are relevant persons in the case of that application, and

(b)£53·79.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the weekly applicable amount –

(a)as regards a relevant person who is in receipt (and entitled to be in receipt) of income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, is £1;

(b)as regards –

(i)a relevant person who is in receipt of guarantee credit; and

(ii)those relevant persons who are members of a married or unmarried couple (within the meaning of the State Pension Credit Act 2002), the other member of which is in receipt of guarantee credit,

is £1;

(c)as regards any other relevant person, is the amount determined in his case in accordance with regulation 15.