Regulation 31 Amendment of Schedule 7 to the Income Support Regulations

in Column 2 of paragraph 13A^f1 for the sum “£290” each time it appears there shall be substituted the sum “£325”;

after paragraph 13A there shall be inserted the following new paragraph—

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Polish resettlement: Persons temporarily absent from accommodation 13B Where a claimant or his partner is temporarily absent from accommodation to which paragraph 13A applies for which the claimant is liable to pay a retaining fee, and but for that absence from that accommodation his applicable amount would be calculated in accordance with that paragraph and the absent person— (a) is a patient; or (b) is a person to whom sub-paragraph (a) does not apply.

13B The amount otherwise applicable to him under these Regulations may be increased to take account of the retaining fee— (a) in a case to which sub-paragraph (a) of Column 1 applies— (i) where the person has been a patient for a period of 6 weeks or less, by an amount not exceeding the maximum amount referred to in paragraph 13A(2)(a); (ii) where the person has been a patient for a period of more than 6 weeks, by an amount not exceeding 80 per cent. of the normal weekly charge for that accommodation, but any such increase shall not be for a con-tinuous period of more than 52 weeks; (b) in a case of a person to whom sub-paragraph (b) of Column 1 applies, by an amount not exceeding 80 per cent. of the normal weekly charge for that accommodation, but any such increase shall not be for a continuous period of more than 4 weeks.

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