# The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1990, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989 in the following respects —
(a) they provide that payments to a third party in respect of a claimant for community charge benefit or a member of his family to the extent it is used for paying water charges are to be treated as the claimant’s income or capital (regulations 3 and 4);
(b) they provide for the reduction of notional capital (regulation 5);
(c) they make further provision in respect of claims and changes of circumstances affecting a claimant and his partner (regulations 6-10);
(d) they add a new premium, the carer premium, to the premiums which may form part of a community charge benefit claimant’s applicable amount where the claimant or his partner is or, in certain cases, would be in receipt of invalid care allowance (regulation 11);
(e) they increase the amount of income to be disregarded from a lone parent’s earnings (regulation 12);
(f) they make provision in respect of the income from charitable or voluntary payments which is to be disregarded in calculating a person’s income, they provide for the disregard from a person’s income and capital of travelling expenses, National Health Service payments and payments in place of milk tokens or the supply of vitamins and, as regards capital only, provide for the disregard of certain trust funds, the value of premises occupied by relatives of single claimants, arrears of special war widows' payments and they extend the provisions under which the assets of a business may be disregarded (regulations 13 and 14).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1773/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1990/note
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