Regulation 5 Amendment of Schedule 9 to the principal Regulations

Schedule 9 to the principal Regulations (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) shall be amended in the following respects—

(a)

in paragraph 5 the following words shall be added at the end—

“including any amount of housing benefit to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 7B of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (entitlement of a refugee to housing benefit)^f1.”;

(b)

in paragraph 52^f2 the following words shall be added at the end—

“including any amount of council tax benefit to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 4D of the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (entitlement of a refugee to council tax benefit)^f3.”;

(c)

after paragraph 56^f4 the following paragraph shall be added—

“57

Any amount of income support to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 21ZA above (treatment of refugees).”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Regulation 7B was inserted by S.I. 1996/2432.
f2: Paragraph 52 was inserted in Schedule 9 by S.I. 1993/315.
f3: Regulation 4D was inserted by S.I. 1996/2432.
f4: Paragraph 56 was added to Schedule 9 by S.I. 1994/2139.