Thalidomide Grant

We have a claim where the person receives a Thalidomide Grant annually of £20,555 for life & another one for £16,819.56 annually for 10 years & received a lump sum of £33,639.12.

It’s not in trust but can be disregard it as a personal injusry payment for 52 weeks? Or is there another disregard that can be applied. If he puts it in a persoanl injury trust, does this mean it can be fully disregarded for the life of the claim?

thanks in advice

If these are regular payments they would seem to have the characteristic of income and would fall to be disregarded entirely under para 14(1)(e) of HB Schedule 5.

Only issue then would be that any money left over at the end of the year during which it counts as income would then become saved capital in exactly the same way as if the claimant had saved some of his earnings.

The one-off lump sum payment should be disregarded for 52 weeks from the date when it was paid.  Any further one-off sums would not be disregarded as capital ... but what you have described do not sound like one-off sums and so I think disregarded income is the correct approach.