Council Tax Reduction Scheme 2024 to 2025. Schedule 2 - Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings

1. Any amount paid by way of tax on income.
2. Any payment made to the claimant and in respect of any travel or other expenses incurred, or to be incurred, by him in respect of his participation in the Mandatory Work Activity Scheme.
3. Any payment made to the applicant in respect of any travel or other expenses incurred, or to be incurred, by him in respect of his participation in the Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme or Back to Work Scheme, but only for 52 weeks beginning with the date of receipt of the payment.
4. Any payment in respect of any expenses incurred or to be incurred by an applicant who is:

• engaged by a charitable or voluntary organisation, or
• volunteer, if he otherwise derives no remuneration or profit from the employment and is not to be treated as possessing any earnings under section 32.0 (notional income)

5. Any payment in respect of expenses arising out of the applicant’s participation in a service user group.
6. In the case of employment as an employed earner, any payment in respect of expenses wholly, exclusively and necessarily incurred in the performance of the duties of the employment.
7. Where an applicant is on income support, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance the whole of his income.
8. Where the applicant is a member of a joint-claim couple for the purposes of the Jobseekers Act and his partner is on an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, the whole of the applicant’s income.
9. Where the applicant, or the person who was the partner of the applicant on 31st March 2003, was entitled on that date to income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance but ceased to be so entitled on or before 5th April 2003 by virtue only of regulation 13 of the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1999 as in force at that date, the whole of his income.
10. Any disability living allowance or personal independence payment or AFIP
11. Any concessionary payment made to compensate for the non-payment of:

• income support
• an income-based jobseeker’s allowance
• an income-related employment and support allowance

12. Any mobility supplement under article 20 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006 (including such a supplement by virtue of any other scheme or order) or under article 25A of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983or any payment intended to compensate for the non-payment of such a supplement.
13. Any attendance allowance.
14. Any payment to the applicant as holder of the Victoria Cross or of the George Cross or any analogous payment.
15. (1) Any payment:

• by way of an education maintenance allowance made pursuant to
• regulations made under section 518 of the Education Act 1996 (payment of school expenses; grant of scholarships etc.)
• regulations made under section 49 or 73(f) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (power to assist persons to take advantage of educational facilities)
• directions made under section 73ZA of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 and paid under section 12(2)I of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992
• corresponding to such an education maintenance allowance, made pursuant to
• section14 or section181 of the Education Act 2002(power of Secretary of State and National Assembly for Wales to give financial assistance for purposes related to education or childcare, and allowances in respect of education or training)
• regulations made under section 181 of that Act; or in England, by way of financial assistance made pursuant to section 14 of the Education Act 2002

15. (2) Any payment, other than a payment to which sub-paragraph (1) applies, made pursuant to:

• regulations made under section 518 of the Education Act 1996
• regulations made under section 49 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980
• directions made under section 73ZA of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 and paid under section 12(2)I of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992

in respect of a course of study attended by a child or a young person or a person who is in receipt of an education maintenance allowance or other payment made pursuant to any provision specified in sub-paragraph (1).

16. Any payment made to the applicant by way of a repayment under regulation 11(2) of the Education (Teacher Student Loans) (Repayment etc.) Regulations 2002.
17. (1) Any payment made pursuant to section 2 of the 1973 Act or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 except a payment:

• made as a substitute for income support, a jobseeker’s allowance, incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance or an employment and support allowance
• of an allowance referred to in section 2(3) of the 1973 Act or section 2(5) of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990
• intended to meet the cost-of-living expenses which relate to any one or more of the items specified in sub-paragraph (2) whilst an applicant is participating in an education, training or other scheme to help him enhance his employment prospects unless the payment is a Career Development Loan paid pursuant to section 2 of the 1973 Act and the period of education or training or the scheme, which is supported by that loan, has been completed.

17. (2) The items specified in this sub-paragraph for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)I are food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel or rent of the applicant or, where the applicant is a member of a family, any other member of his family, or any council tax or water charges for which that applicant or member is liable.
18. (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any of the following payments:

• a charitable payment
• a voluntary payment
• a payment (not falling within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above) from a trust whose funds are derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury to the applicant
• a payment under an annuity purchased:
  • (i) pursuant to any agreement or court order to make payments to the applicant; or
  • (ii) from funds derived from a payment made
  • (iii) in consequence of any personal injury to the applicant; or
  • (iv) a payment (not falling within sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) received by virtue of any agreement or court order to make payments to the applicant in  consequence of any personal injury to the applicant

18. (2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply to a payment, which is made or due to be made by:

• a former partner of the applicant, or a former partner of any member of the applicant’s family; or
• the parent of a child or young person where that child or young person is a member of the applicant’s family

19. 100% of any of the following, namely:

• (a) a war disablement pension (except insofar as such a pension falls to be disregarded under paragraph 9 or 10)
• (b) a war widow’s pension or war widower’s pension
• (c) a pension payable to a person as a widow, widower or surviving civil partner under any power of His Majesty otherwise than under an enactment to make provision about pensions for or in respect of persons who have been disabled or have died in consequence of service as members of the armed forces of the Crown
• (d) a guaranteed income payment
• (e) a payment made to compensate for the non-payment of such a pension or payment as is mentioned in any of the preceding sub-paragraphs
• (f) a pension paid by the government of a country outside Great Britain which is analogous to any of the pensions or payments mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) above
• (g) pension paid to victims of National Socialist persecution under any special provision made by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, or any part of it, or of the Republic of Austria

20. £15 of any:

• widowed mother’s allowance paid pursuant to section 37 of the Act
• widowed parent’s allowance paid pursuant to section 39A of the Act

21. Any income derived from capital to which the applicant is or is treated as beneficially entitled.
22. Where the applicant makes a parental contribution in respect of a student attending a course at an establishment in the United Kingdom or undergoing education in the United Kingdom, which contribution has been assessed for the purposes of calculating:

• under, or pursuant to regulations made under powers conferred by, sections 1 or 2 of the Education Act 1962 or section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998, that student’s award
• under regulations made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 49 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980, that student’s bursary, scholarship, or other allowance under that section or under regulations made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 73 of that Act of 1980, any payment to that student under that section
• the student’s student loan, an amount equal to the weekly amount of that parental contribution, but only in respect of the period for which that contribution is assessed as being payable

23. (1) Where the applicant is the parent of a student aged under 25 in advanced education who either:

• (a)is not in receipt of any award, grant or student loan in respect of that education
• (b) is in receipt of an award under section 2 of the Education Act 1962 (discretionary awards) or an award bestowed by virtue of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998, or regulations made thereunder, or a bursary, scholarship or other allowance under section 49(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980, or a payment under section 73 of that Act of 1980, and the applicant makes payments by way of a contribution towards the student’s maintenance, other than a parental contribution defined within this scheme

23. (2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), the amount shall be equal to:

• the weekly amount of the payments; or
• the amount by way of a personal allowance for a single applicant under 25 less the weekly amount of any award, bursary, scholarship, allowance or payment referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(b)

whichever is less.

24. Any payment made to the applicant by a child or young person.
25. Where the applicant occupies a dwelling as his home and the dwelling is also occupied by a person and there is a contractual liability to make payments to the applicant in respect of the occupation of the dwelling by that person or a member of his family:

• where the aggregate of any payments made in respect of any one week in respect of the occupation of the dwelling by that person or a member of his family, or by that person and a member of his family, is less than £20, the whole of that amount; or
• where the aggregate of any such payments is £20 or more per week, £20

26. (1) Where the applicant occupies a dwelling as his home and he provides in that dwelling board and lodging accommodation, an amount, in respect of each person for which such accommodation is provided for the whole or any part of a week, equal to: 

• where the aggregate of any payments made in respect of any one week in respect of such accommodation provided to such person does not exceed £20.00, 100 per cent. Of such payments
• where the aggregate of any such payments exceeds £20.00, £20.00 and 50 per cent. Of the excess over £20.00.

26. (2) In this paragraph, ‘board and lodging accommodation’ means accommodation provided to a person or, if he is a member of a family, to him or any other member of his family, for a charge which is inclusive of the provision of that accommodation and at least some cooked or prepared meals which both are cooked or prepared (by a person other than the person to whom the accommodation is provided or a member of his family) and are consumed in that accommodation or associated premises.
27. See points 1 and 2 below

(1) Any income in kind, except where regulation 30(11)(b) (provision of support under section 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act in the calculation of income other than earnings) applies

(2) The reference in sub-paragraph (1) to ‘income in kind’ does not include a payment to a third party made in respect of the applicant which is used by the third party to provide benefits in kind to the applicant

28. Any income which is payable in a country outside the United Kingdom for such period during which there is a prohibition against the transfer to the United Kingdom of that income.
29. (1) Any payment made to the applicant in respect of a person who is a member of his family:

• (a) pursuant to regulations under section 2(6)(b), 3 or 4 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or in accordance or with a scheme approved by the Scottish Ministers under section 51A of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978(b) (schemes for payments of allowances to adopters); or in accordance with an Adoption Allowance Scheme made under section 71 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Adoption Allowances Schemes)
• (b) which is a payment made by a local authority in pursuance of section 15(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, the Children Act 1989 (local authority contribution to a child’s maintenance where the child is living with a person as a result of a residence order) or in Scotland section 50 of the Children Act 1975 (payments towards maintenance of children)
• (c) which is a payment made by an authority, as defined in Article 2 of the Children Order, in pursuance of Article 15 of, and paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 to, that Order (contribution by an authority to child’s maintenance); (a)in accordance with regulations made pursuant to section 14F of the Children Act 1989(c) (special guardianship support services)

29. (2) Any payment, other than a payment to which sub-paragraph (1)(a) applies, made. to the applicant pursuant to regulations under section 2(6)(b), 3 or 4 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.
30. Any payment made to the applicant with whom a person is accommodated by virtue of arrangements made:

• arrangements made:
  • section 23(2)(a) of the Children Act 1989 (provision of accommodation and maintenance for a child whom they are looking after)
  • section 26 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (manner of provision of accommodation to child looked after by local authority)
  • regulations 33 or 51 of the Looked After Children (Scotland)Regulations 2009 (fostering and kinship care allowances and fostering allowances)
  • by a voluntary organisation under section 59(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989 (provision of accommodation by voluntary organisations)

31. Any payment made to the applicant or his partner for a person (‘the person concerned’), who is not normally a member of the applicant’s household but is temporarily in his care, by:

• a health authority
• a local authority but excluding payments of housing benefit made in respect of the person concerned
• a voluntary organisation
• the person concerned pursuant to section 26(3A) of the National Assistance Act 1948
• a primary care trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977 or established by an order made under section 18(2)I of the National Health Service Act 2006
• a Local Health Board established under section 16BA of the National Health Service Act 1977 or established by an order made under section 11 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006

32. Any payment made by a local authority in accordance with section 17, 23B, 23C or 24A of the Children Act 1989 or, as the case may be, section 12 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968or section 22, 29 or 30 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (provision of services for children and their families and advice and assistance to certain children).
33. See points 1 and 2 below 

(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any payment (or part of a payment) made by a local authority in accordance with section 23C of the Children Act 1989I or section 29 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (local authorities’ duty to promote welfare of children and powers to grant financial assistance to persons in, or formerly in, their care) to a person (‘A’) which A passes on to the applicant

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) applies only where A

• was formerly in the applicant’s care
• is aged 18 or over, and continues to live with the applicant

34. (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any payment received under an insurance policy taken out to insure against the risk of being unable to maintain repayments:

• (a) on a loan which is secured on the dwelling which the applicant occupies as his home; or
• (b ) under a regulated agreement as defined for the purposes of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 or under a hire-purchase agreement or a conditional sale agreement as defined for the purposes of Part 3 of the Hire-Purchase Act 1964

34. (2) A payment referred to in sub-paragraph (1) shall only be disregarded to the extent that the payment received under that policy does not exceed the amounts, calculated on a weekly basis, which are used to:

• (a) maintain the repayments referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or, as the case may be
• (b) meet any amount due by way of premiums on:
  • (i) that policy; or
  • (ii) in a case to which sub-paragraph(1)(a) applies, an insurance policy taken out to insure against loss or damage to any building or part of a building which is occupied by the applicant as his home, and which is required as a condition of the loan referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a).

35. Any payment of income which is to be treated as capital.
36. Any social fund payment made pursuant to Part 8 of the Act (the Social Fund), or any local welfare provision as defined by the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013.
37. Any payment under Part 10 of the Act (Christmas bonus for pensioners).
38. Where a payment of income is made in a currency other than sterling, any banking charge or commission payable in converting that payment into sterling.
39.  See points 1 and 2 below 

(1) Any payment made under or by any of the Trusts, the Fund, the Eileen Trust, MFET Limited, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation or the Independent Living Fund (2006).

(2) Any payment by or on behalf of a person who is suffering or who suffered from haemophilia or who is or was a qualifying person, which derives from a payment made under or by any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers and which is made to or for the benefit of:

• (a) that person’s partner or former partner from whom he is not, or where that person has died was not, estranged or divorced or with whom he has formed a civil partnership that has not been dissolved or, where that person has died, had not been dissolved at the time of that person’s death
• (b) any child who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the applicant’s family
• (c) any young person who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the applicant’s family

(3) Any payment by or on behalf of the partner or former partner of a person who is suffering or who suffered from haemophilia or who is or was a qualifying person provided that the partner or former partner and that person are not, or if either of them has died were not, estranged or divorced or, where the partner or former partner and that person have formed a civil partnership, the civil partnership has not been dissolved or, if either of them has died, had not been dissolved at the time of the death, which derives from a payment made under or by any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers and which is made to or for the benefit of:

• (a) the person who is suffering from haemophilia or who is a qualifying person.
• (b) any child who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the applicant’s family
• (c) any young person who is a member of that person’s family or who was such a member and who is a member of the applicant’s family

(4) Any payment by a person who is suffering from haemophilia or who is a qualifying person, which derives from a payment under or by any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers, where:

• (a) that person has no partner or former partner from whom he is not estranged or divorced or with whom he has formed a civil partnership that has not been dissolved, nor any child or young person who is or had been a member of that person’s family; and
• (b) the payment is made either:
  • (i) to that person’s parent or step-parent, or 
  • (ii) where that person at the date of the payment is a child, a young person or a student who has not completed his full-time education and has no parent or step-parent, to his guardian, but only for a period from the date of the payment until the end of two years from that person’s death

(5) Any payment out of the estate of a person who suffered from haemophilia or who was a qualifying person, which derives from a payment under or by any of the Trusts to which sub-paragraph (1) refers, where:

• (a) that person at the date of his death (the relevant date) had no partner or former partner from whom he was not estranged or divorced or with whom he has formed a civil partnership that has not been dissolved, nor any child or young person who was or had been a member of his family; and 
• (b) the payment is made either:
  • (i) to that person’s parent or step-parent, or 
  • (ii) where that person at the relevant date was a child, a young person or a student who had not completed his full-time education and had no parent or step-parent, to his guardian, but only for a period of two years from the relevant date

(6) In the case of a person to whom or for whose support payment referred to in this paragraph is made, any income which derives from any payment of income or capital made under or deriving from any of the Trusts.

(7) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2) to (6), any reference to the Trusts shall be construed as including a reference to the Fund, the Eileen Trust, MFET Limited, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation and the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund.

40. Any Housing Benefit
41. Any payment made by the Secretary of State to compensate for the loss (in whole or in part) of entitlement to housing benefit.
42. Any payment to a juror or witness in respect of attendance at a court other than compensation for loss of earnings or for the loss of a benefit payable under the benefit Acts.
43. Any payment in consequence of a reduction of council tax under section 13 or section 80 of the 1992 Act (reduction of liability for council tax).
44. (1) Any payment or repayment made:

• (a) as respects England, under regulation 5, 6 or 12 of the National Health Service (Travel Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 2003 (travelling expenses and health service supplies)
• (b) as respects Wales, under regulation 5, 6 or 11 of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (travelling expenses and health service supplies)
• (c) as respects Scotland, under regulation 3, 5 or 11 of the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2003 (travelling expenses and health service supplies).

44. (2) Any payment or repayment made by the Secretary of State for Health, the Scottish Ministers or the Welsh Ministers, which is analogous to a payment or repayment, mentioned in subparagraph (1).
45. Any payment made to such persons entitled to receive benefits as may be determined by or under a scheme made pursuant to section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 in lieu of vouchers or similar arrangements in connection with the provision of those benefits (including payments made in place of healthy start vouchers, milk tokens or the supply of vitamins).
46. Any payment made by either the Secretary of State for Justice or by the Scottish Ministers under a scheme established to assist relatives and other persons to visit persons in custody.
47. (1) Where an applicant’s family includes at least one child or young person, £15 of any payment of maintenance, other than child maintenance, whether under a court order or not, which is made or due to be made by the applicant’s former partner, or the applicant’s partner’s former partner.

47. (2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1) where more than one maintenance payment falls to be taken into account in any week, all such payments such be aggregated and treated as if they were a single payment.

47. (3) A payment made by the Secretary of State in lieu of maintenance shall, for the purpose of sub-paragraph (1), be treated as a payment of maintenance made by a person specified in subparagraph (1).
48. (1) Any payment of child maintenance made or derived from a liable relative where the child or young person in respect of whom the payment is made is a member of the applicant’s family, except where the person making the payment is the applicant or the applicant’s partner.

48. (2) In paragraph (1) ‘child maintenance’ means any payment towards the maintenance of a child or young person, including any payment made voluntarily and payments made under:

• the Child Support Act 1991
• the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991
• court order
• a consent order
• a maintenance agreement registered for execution in the Books of Council and Session, or the sheriff court books

‘liable relative’ means a person listed in regulation 54 (interpretation) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987, other than a person falling within sub-paragraph (d) of that definition.

49. Any payment (other than a training allowance) made, whether by the Secretary of State or any other person, under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 to assist disabled persons to obtain or retain employment despite their disability.
50. Any guardian’s allowance.
51. (1) If the applicant is in receipt of any benefit under Parts 2, 3 or 5 of the Act, any increase in the rate of that benefit arising under Part 4 (increases for dependants) or section 106(a) (unemployability supplement) of the Act, where the dependant in respect of whom the increase is paid is not a member of the applicant’s family.

51. (2) If the applicant is in receipt of any pension or allowance under Part 2 or 3 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006, any increase in the rate of that pension or allowance under that Order, where the dependant in respect of whom the increase is paid is not a member of the applicant’s family.
52. Any supplementary pension under article 23(2) of the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006 (pensions to surviving spouses and surviving civil partners) and any analogous payment made by the Secretary of State for Defence to any person who is not a person entitled under that Order
53. In the case of a pension awarded at the supplementary rate under article 27(3) of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983(a) (pensions to widows, widowers or surviving civil partners), the sum specified in paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 4 to that Scheme.
54. (1) Any payment which is: 

• (a) made under any of the Dispensing Instruments to a widow, widower or
• (b)surviving civil partner of a person:
  • (i) whose death was attributable to service in a capacity analogous to service as a member of the armed forces of the Crown; and 
  • (ii) whose service in such capacity terminated before 31st March 1973; and equal to the amount specified in article 23(2) of the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 2006

54. (2) In this paragraph ‘the Dispensing Instruments’ means the Order in Council of 19th December 1881, the Royal Warrant of 27th October 1884 and the Order by His Majesty of 14th January 1922 (exceptional grants of pay, non-effective pay and allowances).
55. Any council tax reduction or council tax benefit to which the applicant is entitled.
56. Any payment made under section 12B of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, or under sections 12A to 12D of the National Health Service Act 2006 (direct payments for health care) or under regulations made under section 57 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001 (direct payments).
57. (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), in respect of a person who is receiving, or who has received, assistance under the self-employment route, any payment to that person:

• (a) to meet expenses wholly and necessarily incurred whilst carrying on the commercial activity:
• (b) which is used or intended to be used to maintain repayments on a loan taken out
  by that person for the purpose of establishing or carrying on the commercial activity, in respect of which such assistance is or was received

57. (2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall apply only in respect of payments, which are paid to that person from the special account.
58. See points 1 to 3 below.

(1) Any payment of a sports award except to the extent that it has been made in respect of any one or more of the items specified in sub-paragraph (2)

(2) The items specified for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) are food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel or rent of the applicant or where the applicant is a member of a family, any other member of his family, or any council tax or water charges for which that applicant or member is liable.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) ‘food’ does not include vitamins, minerals or other special dietary supplements intended to enhance the performance of the person in the sport in respect of which the award was made.

59. Where the amount of subsistence allowance paid to a person in a reduction week exceeds the amount of income-based jobseeker’s allowance that person would have received in that reduction week had it been payable to him, less 50p, that excess amount.
60. In the case of an applicant participating in an employment zone programme, any discretionary payment made by an employment zone contractor to the applicant, being a fee, grant, loan or otherwise.
61. Any discretionary housing payment paid pursuant to regulation 2(1) of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations 2001 as amended by the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013.
62. See points 1 and 2 below

(1) Any payment made by a local authority or by the Welsh Ministers to or on behalf of the applicant or his partner relating to a service which is provided to develop or sustain the capacity of the applicant or his partner to live independently in his accommodation.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) ‘local authority’ includes, in England, a county council.

63. Any payments to a claimant made under section 49 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (personal budgets and direct payments)
64. Any payment of child benefit.
65. Any Windrush compensation payment.
66. Any payment made under the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund.
67. Any payment made under the London Emergency Trust.
68. Carers Allowance.
69. The support component of Employment and Support Allowance.
70. An amount the authority determines relates to the following elements of Universal Credit:

• Housing Element
• Limited Capability for Work Element and the Limited Capability for Work Related Activity Element
• Disabled Child Element
• Carer Element

71. Any payment deemed to be made by the authority under a local welfare provision.
72. Any increase in national welfare benefits made in relation to a crisis by Government which would result in a reduction in support.
73. Where, the applicant (or any member of the household) is in receipt of a Personal Independence Payment, Armed Forces Independence Payment, Employment and Support Allowance (Support Component) or Disability Living Allowance , a further disregard of £50 shall be a made from their income.
74. Any payment made under the Energy Rebate Scheme 2022 is to be disregarded in determining:

• an applicant’s entitlement to a reduction under the scheme; or
• the amount of any reduction to which the applicant is entitled. “The Energy Rebate Scheme 2022” means the scheme to provide financial support in respect of energy bills which was announced in Parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 3rd February 2022

75. Any payment made under by Government to compensate or redress for the victims of infected Blood.
76. Any bereavement payment.
77. Provision for all applicants: Homes for Ukraine scheme (see points 1 and 2 below) 

(1) Any payment made in connection with the Homes for Ukraine scheme is to be disregarded in determining:

• an applicant’s entitlement to a reduction under the scheme; or
• the amount of any reduction to which the applicant is entitled

(2) In this regulation— “the Homes for Ukraine scheme” means the Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme which was announced in Parliament by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on 14th March 2022.