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• BP3 - Assessment of needs

Housing Benefit Guidance Manual: Amendment 17 December 2008

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Chapter BP3 - Assessment of needs

Contents

• P3.00 - About this chapter
• P3.30 - Applicable amounts
  • P3.40 - Personal and dependant’s allowances
    • P3.41 - Personal allowances
      • P3.45 - Polygamous marriages
    • P3.46 - Dependant’s personal allowances
      • P3.50 - Children of a polygamous marriage
• P3.70 - Premiums
  • P3.70 - What are premiums?
  • P3.72 - Entitlement to more than one premium
  • P3.73 - Family Premium and Family Premium (Lone Parent)
  • P3.180 - Enhanced Disability Premium
    • P3.181 - When not to award EDP
  • P3.200 - Overlapping benefits
    • P3.210 - Severe Disability Premium
    • P3.220 - Flowchart: Severe Disability Premium - single person
    • P3.221 - Flowchart: Severe Disability Premium - couples
    • P3.225 - Single rate SDP
    • P3.226 - Deciding whether claimant lives alone
    • P3.227 - One partner in hospital
  • P3.250 - Disabled Child Premium
  • P3.270 - Carer Premium
    • P3.272 - Qualifying conditions
    • P3.274 - Underlying entitlement to Carer’s Allowance
      • P3.275 - Transitional Protection
• P3.350 - Hospital in-patients
  • P3.360 - Single claimant
  • P3.361 - Lone parents
  • P3.370 - Married/unmarried couple or civil partnership couple living together as civil partners
    • P3.370 - One partner is admitted to hospital
    • P3.371 - Both partners admitted to hospital at same time
    • P3.372 - One partner admitted after the other
  • P3.390 - Polygamous marriages
  • P3.410 - Children and young persons
  • P3.420 - Withdrawing AA and DLA
  • P3.430 - Action to take when stay in hospital is likely to be permanent or exceed 52 week
    • P3.430 - HB claims only
  • P3.450 - Claimants discharged and readmitted to hospital within 28 days - the linking rule
  • P3.470 - Pensioners regularly discharged from hospital
  • P3.490 - Private patients
  • P3.510 - Amenity beds
• Annex A - Applicable amounts
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