Personal Injury Compensation - Growth in investment

Hello

Hope you can help with this scenario.

I have a client who is pension age and she has received a considerable sum for personal injury compensation.  She is in receipt of Pension Credit.  The money is not held in trust or Court of Protection.

The regulations are clear in the respect that the personal injury money is ignored

16.—(1) An amount equal to the amount of any payment made in consequence of any personal injury to the claimant or, if the claimant has a partner, to the partner.

However, the client has invested the money and the fund has grown quite a lot.  Is the growth also disregarded?

Thanks