Regulation 16 Income to be disregarded
Each of the Schedules specified in paragraph (2) (which relate to sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), shall be modified in their application to persons to whom this Part applies as if at the end of each of those Schedules there were added the following paragraphs bearing the specified respective paragraph numbers–
“Any child care expenses reimbursed to the claimant in respect of his participation in the programme known as the intensive activity period of the New Deal pilots for 25 plus as defined for the purposes of the Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 1998 in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations but this paragraph does not apply to any part of any allowance under section 2(2)(d) of the 1973 Act.
Any mandatory top-up payment made to a person pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 in respect of that person’s participation in the programme known as the intensive activity period of the New Deal pilots for 25 plus as defined for the purposes of the Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations 1998 in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations.”.
The respective paragraph numbers and Schedules for the purposes of paragraph (1) are–
paragraphs 68 and 69 of Schedule 4 to the Council Tax Benefit Regulationsf1;
paragraphs 61 and 62 of Schedule 3 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulationsf2;
paragraphs 63 and 64 of Schedule 2 to the Family Credit Regulationsf3;
paragraphs 69 and 70 of Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit Regulationsf4;
paragraphs 67 and 68 of Schedule 9 to the Income Support Regulationsf5;
paragraphs 65 and 66 of Schedule 7 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulationsf6.