The National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2005
These Regulations amend the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003. The amendment in regulation 3(2) provides that the earnings disregard set out in Schedule 8 of the Income Support (General) Regulations shall apply to a single person aged 60 or over and to a couple where one or both of the partners is aged 60 or over. The amendment in regulation 3(3) provides that those lone parents aged 60 or more have their requirements calculated in accordance with the prescribed amount in the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002 and those lone parents aged less than 60 have their requirements calculated in accordance with the prescribed amount in the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987.