Regulation 8 Entitlement to family credit following entitlement to family income supplement

Where a claim for family credit is treated as made on 11th April 1988, by virtue of regulation 3(2) (pre-existing entitlement to family income supplement) and all the conditions of entitlement to family credit as modified by regulation 6 (determination of circumstances where family credit replaces family income supplement), are satisfied, including the capital conditions in section 22(6) of the Act and the income conditions in section 20(5)(a) of the Act, family credit shall be awarded at the rate at which family income supplement was payable on 5th April 1988, together with an additional £2.55 per week for each child or young person included in the family for which family income supplement was payable on 5th April 1988, except where such a rate would be lower than the rate at which family credit would otherwise be payable.

Where a claim for family credit is treated as made on 11th April 1988, by virtue of regulation 3(2), and, apart from the income conditions in section 20(5)(a) of the Act, all the conditions of entitlement to family credit as modified by regulation 6, including the capital conditions in section 22(6) of the Act, are satisfied, family credit shall be awarded at the rate at which family income supplement was payable on 5th April 1988, together with an additional £2.55 per week for each child or young person included in the family for which family income supplement was payable on 5th April 1988.

In the case of an award of family credit on a claim treated as made on 11th April 1988 by virtue of regulation 3(1) or (2), in respect of a person for whom family income supplement was payable on 5th April 1988, the first day of the award (namely 11th April 1988) shall be treated as a week for the purpose of calculating —