PC10 Pension Credit - Communities and Local Government

How do we work out your income?SPCR sch IVparas 13 & 14Para 11Para 1 & 7– Severe Disablement Occupational Allowance; and– dependency increases for anyone other than you or yourpartner.Any income other than social security or war pensions youreceive because you suffered a personal injury, or your partnerreceives because they suffered a personal injury. This includes:●●●payments from annuities set up under a structuredsettlement;payments from annuities bought from a lump-sumcompensation payment; andmoney from trust funds which were set up with alump-sum compensation payment.Any payments you receive from a trust fund which was not set upwith a lump-sum compensation payment are not counted as long asthey are made entirely at the trustees’ discretion and are for itemsother than food, ordinary clothing or footwear, household fuel orhousing costs.There is no limit to the amount that can be fully disregarded.Income which is partially disregardedThere are several types of income which are partially disregarded.This means we ignore part of the income when we work out yourPension Credit:●The first £10 of your total (weekly) income from any of thefollowing:– War Widow’s or Widower’s Pension;– War Disablement Pension;– Guaranteed Income Payments from the Armed ForcesCompensation Scheme;– foreign payments equivalent to the three types of paymentslisted above;– pensions paid by the German or Austrian government tovictims of Nazi persecution;– Widowed Parent’s Allowance; or– Widowed Mother’s Allowance.31