# The Social Security and Child Support (Care Payments and Tenant Incentive Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2017, Regulation 5: Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006


(1) The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 37(2) (earnings of self-employed earners)—
(a) for “26 or 27” substitute “26, 27 or 27A”;
(b) for “and payments” substitute “, payments”;
(c) after “claimant’s care” insert “and any payments made to a claimant under section 73(1)(b) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (kinship care assistance)”.
(3) After paragraph 27 of Schedule 5 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) insert—
“27A. Any payment made to a claimant under section 73(1)(b) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (kinship care assistance).”.
(4) At the end of Schedule 6 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of capital) insert—
“64. Any payment made to a claimant under section 73(1)(b) of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (kinship care assistance).”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/995/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-care-payments-and-tenant-incentive-scheme-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-5
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