Paragraph 1 Calculation of student’s income

the first £675 of any income other than income of a kind mentioned in sub-paragraphs (b) to (u) and other than any sum treated as income under sub-paragraph (3);

the first £3,295 of any income by way of–

in the case of a student for whose benefit any income is applied or any payments are required to be applied as described in paragraph 5(5)–

any disability pension not subject to income tax;

any bounty received as a reservist with the armed forces;

remuneration for work done during any year of the student’s course;

in the case of a student in whose case a parental contribution is by virtue of Part II of this Schedule applicable (at whatever amount including nil that contribution is ascertained to be) any payment which is made under covenant by a parent by reference to whose income that contribution falls to be ascertained;

any payment made for a specific educational purpose otherwise than to meet such fees and such requirements for maintenance as are specified in Schedules 1 and 2;

child benefit;

any benefit under the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976^f1 , any income support under Part II of the Social Security Act 1986^f2 and any transitional addition, personal expenses addition or special transitional addition payable under Part II of the Income Support (Transitional) Regulations 1987^f3 ;

any attendance allowance, mobility allowance or disability living allowance under section 35, 37A or 37ZA of the Social Security Act 1975^f4 , or any mobility supplement provided for in an order made under section 12(1) of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977^f5 ;

any rate or rent rebate or rent allowance granted to him in pursuance of a statutory or local scheme under Part II of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982^f6 or any Housing Benefit or Community Charge Benefit granted to him in pursuance of a statutory or local scheme under Part II of the Social Security Act 1986^f7 ;

any allowance payable to him by an adoption agency in pursuance of a scheme approved by the Secretary of State under section 57(4) of the Adoption Act 1976^f8 ;

any guardian’s allowance to which he is entitled under section 38 of the Social Security Act 1975^f9 ;

in the case of a student with whom a child in the care of a local authority is boarded out, any payment made to him in pursuance of section 21(1) of the Child Care Act 1980^f10 or section 23 of the Children Act 1989^f11 ;

any payments made to the student in pursuance of an order made under section 34 of the Children Act 1975^f12 or any assistance given by a local authority pursuant to section 24 of the Children Act 1989^f13 ;

any payments made to the student under the action programme of the European Community in Education and Training for Technology known as COMETT^f14 ;

any payments made to the student under the action scheme of the European Community for the Mobility of University Students known as ERASMUS^f15 or the European Community programme for foreign language competence known as LINGUA^f16 ;

the first £2,580 of any pension, however described, other than one of the kind mentioned at sub-paragraph (d) above, and including any such pension paid to the student as a widow, child or dependant;

any payment made to the student in pursuance of the Education (Student Loans) Act 1990^f17 ;

any payment made to the student out of access funds held by the establishment at which he attends his course whether those funds were received by the establishment under the Education (Further and Higher Education Institutions Access Funds) Regulations 1990^f18 or by way of grant from the Universities Funding Council or the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council.

if, in the opinion of the authority, the obligation had been reasonably so incurred, an amount equal to the payment in question;

if, in their opinion, only a lesser obligation could have been reasonably so incurred, such correspondingly lesser amount (if any) as appears to them appropriate;