The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

Applicable amounts for persons in board and lodging accommodation and hostels

20.—(1) Subject to regulation 22 (reductions of applicable amounts) where—

(a)the claimant lives in board and lodging accommodation or a hostel; or

(b)if he is a member of a family,

(i)he and the members of his family live in such accommodation; or

(ii)he and the members of his family normally live in such accommodation and, where there is a period of absence from the accommodation of any member of the family, provided that the claimant or his partner lives in the accommodation during that absence,

• his weekly applicable amount shall, except in a case to which regulation 21 (special cases) or Part II of Schedule 5 (persons to whom regulation 20 does not apply) applies, be calculated in accordance with Part I of that Schedule.

(2) In this regulation and Schedule 5— “board and lodging accommodation” means—

(a)accommodation provided to the claimant or, if he is a member of a family, to him or any other members of his family, for a charge which is inclusive of the provision of that accommodation and at least some cooked or prepared meals which are both prepared and consumed in that accommodation or associated premises; or

(b)accommodation provided in a hotel, guest-house, lodging-house or some similar establishment;

“board and lodging area” means the area numbered in column (1) of Schedule 6 (board and lodging areas) and described in column (2) thereof and for the purposes of this regulation and Schedule 5 any place not included in the description of a board and lodging area in Schedule 6 shall be treated as forming part of the board and lodging area nearest to it;

“hostel” means a building not being a residential care home or nursing home—