The National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Amendment No.2) Regulations 2007

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2382) (“the 2003 Regulations”).

In calculating a person’s resources and requirements under the 2003 Regulations in order to establish whether a person can claim entitlement to the remission of NHS charges and the payment of NHS travel expenses, a modified version of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967) applies.

These Regulations modify Schedule 1 of the 2003 Regulations to provide that in respect of a voluntary payment made to a student only £20 of that payment is to be disregarded in calculating that student’s income. The maximum amount of voluntary payments to a student that can be disregarded is £20 per week. The 2003 Regulations already modify the meaning of “voluntary payment” to exclude certain payments made to students (see the entry for regulation 65 in Table A in Schedule 1 to the 2003 Regulations).