Regular payments – Regular charitable and voluntary payments are usually disregarded. Charitable payments are payments made by a charitable trust at the trustees’ discretion. Voluntary payments are similar, but not usually made from charitable trusts; they are payments that have a benevolent purpose and are given without anything being given in return ( R(IS)4/94 ) – this can include discretionary family trusts ( CE/1849/2019 ). Regular payments are those paid or due to be paid at recurring intervals, such as weekly, monthly, annually or following some other pattern.

For maintenance payments, see 9 below .
HB Regs, Sch 5 , para 14

Irregular payments – Charitable or voluntary payments that are not paid to you at regular intervals are treated as capital. Irregular gifts in kind from a charity are disregarded. See 10 below for how payments made to third parties are treated.
HB Regs reg 46(6)

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