Adult Social Care Glossary, v 0.6

Notional income
17.--(1) The adult is to be treated as possessing income of which the adult has deprived themselves for the purpose of decreasing the amount they may be liable to pay towards the cost of meeting their needs for care and support, or their needs for support.

Notional capital
22.--(1) The adult is to be treated as possessing capital of which the adult has deprived themselves for the purpose of decreasing the amount that they may be liable to pay towards the cost of meeting their needs for care and support, or their needs for support, except--
(a) where that capital is derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury and is placed on trust for the benefit of the adult;
(b) to the extent that the capital which the adult is treated as possessing is reduced in accordance with regulation 23; or
(c) any sum to which paragraph 44(1) or 45(a) of Schedule 10 to the Income Support Regulations (disregard of compensation for personal injuries which is administered by the Court) refers.