Chapter 22: Capital: under pension age
This chapter covers:
1. The capital limits (
here)
2. Whose capital counts (
here)
3. What counts as capital (
here)
4. Disregarded capital (
here)
5. Notional capital (
here)
6. How capital is valued (
here)
This chapter explains how capital affects your entitlement to income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance and income-related employment and support allowance. It also applies to working-age housing benefit (HB) rules if you and your partner are under pension age.
Chapter 23 explains the rules for pension credit and for pension-age HB rules if you and your partner are over pension age. If you are in a couple and one of you is over pension age but not the other, see
here for whether the working-age or pension-age HB rules apply. For universal credit, see
Chapter 8. For the capital limits for health benefits, see
Chapter 31. There are no capital rules for non-means-tested benefits.