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Extract from SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFITS
HAND BOOK
CHAPTER 4 Assessment of benefit:
the scale rates
General
33. The calculation of resources is one side of the sum; the other side is the calculation of the claimant's requirements, the main item of which is the scale rates for normal weekly requirements which are laid down by Parliament. To these scale rates is added an amount for rent (Chapter 5). The amount of benefit calculated by deducting resources from require- ments can be adjusted where there are exceptional circumstances (Chapter 6).
Scale rates for normal weekly requirements
34. These are the scale rates which came into force on 15 November 1976. They are changed by Parliament from time to time and leaflet SB1, which is available at any Post Office or office of the Department, always gives
current rates.
35. As the table shows, special rates are provided for blind persons. A person is regarded as blind for the purposes of the Act if he qualifies to be on the Register of Blind Persons maintained by the Local Authority. The special rates are intended to cover extra needs arising out of blindness. It follows that exceptional circumstances additions (Chapter 6) for such needs are made only if they are not covered by the difference between the special and ordinary scales. Exceptional circumstances not connected with the claimant's blindness are considered for blind people in the same way as anyone else.
36. When a claimant (or a dependant whose requirements and resources are aggregated with those of the claimant) is entitled to an Attendance Allowance under the social security scheme, his or her normal weekly requirements are increased by the same amount, known as attendance requirements. The current amounts of attendance requirements (which correspond exactly with attendance allowance rates) are given in the table.
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