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rent is the annual rent paid or payable by the person whose rate of income support supplement is being calculated.

Rent paid by a member of a couple

"45Y-F9. Where a person is a member of a couple and the person's partner is living with the person in their home, any rent that the person's partner pays or is liable to pay in respect of the home is to be treated as paid or payable by the person.

Note: For 'member of a couple' see section 5E.

Rent paid by a member of an illness separated or respite care couple

"45Y-F10. Where a person is a member of an illness separated or respite care couple, any rent hat the person's partner pays or is liable to pay in respect of the premises occupied by the person is to be treated as paid or payable by the person.

    Note: For 'member of an illness separated couple' and 'respite care couple' see subsections 5R (5) and (6).

"MODULE G—ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN

Additional amounts for dependent children

"45Y-G1. This is how to work out the amount per year for dependent children that is to be taken into account in working out the income support supplement rate.

         Method statement
Step 1.  Work out the amount of the child add-on (if any) for each dependent child of the person using points 45Y-G3 to 45Y-G5.
Step 2.  Work out the amount per year of the person's guardian allowance (if any) using points 45Y-G6 to 45Y-G8.
Step 3.  Add up all of the amounts obtained in Steps 1 and 2: the result is called the DC total and is the amount per year for children that is to be taken into account in working out the income support supplement rate.

    Note: Guardian allowance is a single amount per year for a person who is not a member of a couple or who is a member of an illness separated couple.

Children of a couple

"45Y-G2. If a member (whether the man or the woman), or both members, of a couple have dependent children, use Table G-1 to work out how the dependent children are to be taken into account for the purposes of this Module.

Work out the column that applies to the man's payment entitlement (if any) using the horizontal axis and then work out the item that applies to the woman's payment entitlement (if any) using the vertical axis; find the box for that item in that column.

If the box contains the word 'man', a dependent child of the woman is to be taken into account as a dependent child of the man; if the box contains the word 'woman', a dependent