The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1988
These Regulations amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 to provide for the disregard, in the calculation of income and capital, of charitable payments made to haemophiliacs under the Macfarlane Trust; and exempt a person from the requirement to furnish any information relating to such payments (regulations 1 to 6, 9 and 10). They also make provision for payments to be made on account of rent and rate rebates for a period before 30th June 1988 where it has been impracticable to determine a claim (regulation 8); and for notifications on determinations made on claims before that date to be in a shortened form (regulation 7).