14. Compensation schemes
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14. Compensation schemes
Compensation for personal injury – If you have been awarded compensation because of a personal injury, any regular payments from it are disregarded. If the compensation has been used to buy an annuity, payments under the annuity are disregarded. If the compensation is held in a trust, any income from the trust is disregarded. If the compensation is administered by the court on your behalf or can be used only by direction of the court, regular payments from it are disregarded.
UC Regs, reg 75
Special compensation schemes – Any payment from a scheme set up or approved by the government (or from a trust set up with funds from such a scheme) is disregarded if it compensates for:
    ■your having been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or infected from contaminated blood products (eg the Macfarlane and Eileen Trusts and the Skipton Fund);
    ■the London and Manchester terrorist attacks of 2005 and 2017;
    ■the Grenfell Tower fire;
    ■historic institutional child abuse
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