Back on Track Policy 2023-24

8. Exclusions

Support will not be awarded for the following items or services:

educational or training related expenses, for example uniform, equipment or travelling expenses
expenses or costs in connection with court and legal proceedings such as legal fees, court fees, fines, costs, damages, subsistence or travelling expenses
removal or storage charges if the applicant is being re-housed following a compulsory purchase order, closing order, a compulsory exchange of tenancies, or under a housing authority's statutory duty to the homeless. Assistance may be available through housing and homelessness solutions
rent arrears and mortgage costs including interest payments
Council Tax or Council Tax arrears
domestic assistance and respite care
a medical, surgical, optical, aural or dental item or service
mobility needs
a television or a radio, or a licence, aerial or rental charges for a television or a radio
purchase, installation, rental and call charges for a telephone
garaging, parking, purchase, and running costs of any motor vehicle
debts to government departments or local authorities

The following people cannot be supported by the Back on Track Support Fund:

people who normally reside outside Stockton-on-Tees Borough, unless the need is for a person who is in the process of moving into Stockton-on-Tees Borough and usually have links or ties to Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
care home residents and hospital in-patients, unless the need is for a person who will be discharged as part of a resettlement plan
persons who are members of and fully maintained by a religious order
people in full-time education unless they are entitled to:
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Pension Credit
- Universal Credit and working less than 16 hours per week
prisoners who are in prison or released on temporary licence
a person who is, or would be, treated as a person from abroad for the purpose of Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, income-related Employment and Support Allowance and Pension Credit, and has no entitlement to those benefits, including:
- foreign nationals with limited immigration status
- foreign nationals with no recourse to public funds
- non-economically active European Union individuals
- United Kingdom nationals who are not habitually resident in the United Kingdom