PART 2DETERMINATIONS IN RESPECT OF AN INDIVIDUAL’S FINANCIAL RESOURCES

CHAPTER 3CALCULATION OF INCOME AND CAPITAL – ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION (LOWER COURTS)

Deductions from capital – maintenance of partner and dependants32

In calculating the capital of the person concerned, where that person has living with them one or more of the following persons—

a

a partner whose resources are required to be aggregated with theirs under regulation 17;

b

a dependant child; or

c

a dependant relative wholly or substantially maintained by them,

a deduction shall be made of £335 in respect of the first person, £200 in respect of the second person and £100 in respect of each further person.