Income-related benefits: Treatment of student loans
9.—(1) In each of the regulations specified in paragraph (2) below (which provide for student loans to be treated as income) for paragraph (3) there is substituted—
“(3) For the purposes of this regulation a student shall be treated as possessing the maximum amount of any loan referred to in paragraph (1) which he will be able to acquire in respect of an academic year by taking reasonable steps to do so.”.
(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) above are—
(a)regulation 66A M1 of the Income Support Regulations;
F1(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F1(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(d)regulation 42A M2 of the Family Credit Regulations;
(e)regulation 47 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 9(2)(b)(c) revoked (6.3.2006) by The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/217), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 3, Sch. 3, Sch. 4)
Marginal Citations
M1Regulation 66A was inserted by S.I. 1990/1549, regulation 5(7).
M2Regulation 42A was inserted by S.I. 1990/1549, regulation 3(5).