The Income Support (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1990
These Regulations further amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 in the following respects–they provide that a person residing with a claimant shall not be a non-dependant where payments are made to or by a member of the claimant’s household in respect of the occupation of the dwelling (regulation 3);they provide that in Scotland, as in England and Wales, certain payments in respect of water charges are to be included as notional income (regulation 4); notional capital (regulation 5) and actual income (regulation 10(a));they provide for the reduction of notional capital (regulation 6);they make new provision in respect of the period over which payments by liable relatives are to be taken into account (regulation 7);they add a new premium, the carer premium, to the premiums which may form part of a claimant’s applicable amount where the claimant or his partner is or, in certain cases, would be in receipt of invalid care allowance (regulation 8);they make amendments to the provisions under which housing costs are calculated, including those relating to interest on loans to acquire, repair or improve the dwelling occupied as a home and the deductions made on account of non-dependants (regulation 9);they provide for the disregard of certain income and capital, including National Health Service payments, payments in place of milk tokens or the supply of vitamins and payments in connection with prison visits and, as regards capital only, extend the provisions under which assets of a business, funds held on trust and arrears of certain war widows payments may be disregarded (regulations 10(b) and 11).