The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements and Assessment of Resources) Amendment (England) Regulations 2009

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply in relation to England, amend the National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) (England) Regulations 2003 (“the Personal Requirements Regulations”) and the National Assistance (Assessment of Resources) Regulations 1992 (“the Assessment Regulations”).

Regulation 2 amends the Personal Requirements Regulations so that the weekly sum which local authorities in England are to assume, in the absence of special requirements, that residents in accommodation arranged under Part 3 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (“the 1948 Act”) will need for their personal requirements is £21.90.

Regulations 3 to 6 amend the Assessment Regulations, which concern the assessment of the liability of a person to pay for residential accommodation that is provided, or proposed to be provided, to him by a local authority under Part 3 of the 1948 Act.

Regulation 3 amends the Assessment Regulations so that the capital limit set out in regulation 20 increases to £23,000.

Regulation 4 amends the Assessment Regulations so that the capital limits set out in regulation 28(1) increase to £14,000 and £23,000.

Regulation 5 provides for an increase to £5.65 (£8.45 if a resident has a partner) in the amount of any savings credit to be disregarded in accordance with paragraph 28H of Schedule 3 to the Assessment Regulations.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on business, charities or voluntary bodies is foreseen.