20. Notional income
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20. Notional income
Income that you do not actually have may be taken into account in some circumstances.
    ■Deprivation of income – You are treated as having any income you have deprived yourself of in order to get housing benefit or increase it (the issue is similar to that of deprivation of capital – see 35 below).
    HB Regs, reg 42(1)
    ■Income available if applied for – You are treated as having income from the date that you could expect to receive it. This also applies to most social security benefits, but only up until the time you put in a claim ( CIS/16271/1996 ). The rule does not apply to the following types of income:
    -payments from a discretionary trust or a personal injury compensation trust;
    -compensation administered by the courts for personal injury;
    -employment rehabilitation allowances; and
    -income from a personal pension scheme (including an annuity contract or trust scheme approved under tax law), occupational pension scheme or the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), as long as yo
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