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Paragraph 25A F1

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(1)

Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any payment received under an insurance policy taken out to insure against the risk of being unable to maintain repayments—

(a)

on a loan which is secured on the dwelling which the claimant occupies as his home; or

(b)

under a regulated agreement as defined for the purposes of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 or under a hire-purchase agreement or a conditional sale agreement as defined for the purposes of Part III of the Hire-Purchase Act 1964.

(2)

A payment referred to in sub-paragraph (1) shall only be disregarded to the extent that the payment received under that policy does not exceed the amounts, calculated on a weekly basis, which are used to—

(a)

maintain the repayments referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or, as the case may be, (b); and

(b)

meet any amount due by way of premiums on—

(i)

that policy; or

(ii)

in a case to which sub-paragraph (1)(a) applies, an insurance policy taken out to insure against loss or damage to any building or part of a building which is occupied by the claimant as his home and which is required as a condition of the loan referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 3 para. 25A inserted (2.6.1998 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.3) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1173), regs. 1(2), 3

Notes on Schedule 3

Modifications

C1

Sch. 3 paras. 61, 62 modified (temp. until 27.11.2001) (28.11.2000) by The Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3134), regs. 1(1)(b), 16(1)(2)(b) (with regs. 1(2), 11, 19)