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Home income plan - A plan enabling the normally elderly owner or owners of a property to utilise its capital value to their advantage (by providing an income) and still remain in residence.Typically a building society or insurance company provides a loan of up to 80% of the property value and this loan is used to purchase an annuity or joint life annuity (see annuity) in the case of say joint owners. The annuity payments are used to pay interest on the loan and provided 90% of the loan is invested in this way tax relief can be claimed. (The remaining 10% of the loan can usually be taken in cash with no restrictions). Thus after making interest payments net of tax relief there will be a surplus available to the owner or owners.Safe Home Income Plans (SHIP) is a self-regulatory body that was formed in 1991 to promote fairer schemes after thousands of elderly homeowners were left nursing large losses in the late Eighties. SHIP can be contacted on 01242 539494.