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source-c033: DMG Vol 14 Ch 85: Income other than earnings — PDF page 77

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HB income treatment candidate; does not alone establish all HB/PC interaction rules.

85302 The DM should fully disregard any payments of HB 1. HB may be


1. paid direct to the claimant or


2. paid direct to the landlord or


3. deducted from the rent payable.


HB is paid by LAs to help people on low incomes pay their rent.


Note: See DMG 85230 et seq where the claimant is a landlord and receives HB for people living in his
home.


                                                                                    1 SPC Regs, reg 15(1)(l)



Mobility supplement

85303 The DM should fully disregard1


1. any mobility supplement paid under relevant legislation2


2. any payment to compensate for the non-payment of the supplement in 1..


                                                                                1 SPC Regs, Sch IV, para 3;
     2 Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006, art 20 or
                                                        Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983, art 25A



Payments from the Social Fund under social security legislation

85304 The DM should fully disregard any payment from the SF1.


                                                                                    1 SPC Regs, reg 15(1)(i)

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source-c030: DMG Vol 13 Ch 78: State Pension Credit: additional amounts and special groups — PDF page 58

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Housing-cost additional amount/HB expenditure and care-home route; not the whole HB scheme.

78270 An additional amount for housing costs should not be allowed for


1. HB expenditure1 or


2. claimants in a care home, unless their absence from the dwelling normally occupied as their home is

temporary2 (see DMG 78240 et seq)




                                                      1 SPC Regs, Sch II, para 5(1)(a); 2 Sch II, para 5(1)(b)


78271 HB expenditure means1 any element for which HB may be payable2.


Note: HB may be payable for such periodical payments as rent, service charges, mooring charges and for
the site on which a caravan or mobile home stands (see DMG 78463).


                                                      1 SPC Regs, Sch II, para 5(1)(a); 2 HB Regs, reg 12(1)




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source-c009: DMG Vol 13 Ch 77: Conditions of entitlement, membership of the household and normal amount payable — PDF page 15

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Age, GB presence and mixed-age-couple conditions with savings provisions and routes.

77035 For the purposes of entitlement to SPC, a mixed-age couple is one where one member has

reached the qualifying age and the other has not.1 This definition includes a polygamous marriage where
at least one party to the polygamous marriage has reached the qualifying age and at least one party has
not2.


Note 1: This definition applies only to new claims to SPC from 15.5.19. Savings provisions have effect as

though the exclusion of mixed-age couples from SPC had not come into force 2. So a member of a mixed-
age couple who was entitled to SPC or pension age HB or both on 14.5.19, continues to be so entitled on
or after 15.5.19. The savings provisions cease to have effect to a member of a mixed-age couple on or
after 15.5.19 when that person is no longer entitled to SPC or pension age HB as part of the same mixed-
age couple.


Note 2: Where one of a mixed age couple is a PSIC, SPC is paid to the claimant as a single person. 3
However, if entitlement to HB arose before 15.05.19, and that HB is in payment to them as a couple then,
once the partner is no longer a PSIC, they can be a couple for SPC.


Note 3: For detailed guidance on the treatment of mixed-age couples where a claimant who has reached
the SPC qualifying age would otherwise not be entitled to SPC or UC, see DMG 77140 et seq.

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