^I2223 Calculation of income and capital of members of claimant's family and of a polygamous marriage¶

23A  Income of participants in the self-employment route^F680...¶

^F107I2324 Treatment of charitable or voluntary payments¶

^I2425  ^F1521... liable relative payments¶

^F131225A Child support¶

^I2526 Calculation of income and capital of students ¶

^I2627 Rounding of fractions¶

^I2728 Calculation of income¶

^I2829 Calculation of earnings derived from employed earner's employment and income other than earnings¶

^I2930 Calculation of earnings of self-employed earners¶

^I3031 Date on which income is treated as paid¶

^I3132 Calculation of weekly amount of income¶

^F110I3233 Weekly amount of charitable or voluntary payment¶

^F45I3334 Incomplete weeks of benefit¶

^I34C3835 Earnings of employed earners¶

^I3536 Calculation of net earnings of employed earners¶

^I36C3937 Earnings of self-employed earners¶

^I3738 Calculation of net profit of self-employed earners¶

^I3839 Deduction of tax and contributions for self-employed earners¶

^C15C14C1339A  Interpretation¶

• ^F682...
• “special account" means, where a person was carrying on a commercial activity in respect of which assistance is received under the self-employment route, the account into which the gross receipts from that activity were payable during the period in respect of which such assistance was received.

39B  Treatment of gross receipts of participants in the self-employment route^F683...¶

39C  Calculation of income of participants in the self-employment route^F684...¶

39D  Deduction in respect of tax for participants in the self-employment route^F686...¶

^I3940 Calculation of income other than earnings¶

^I4041 Capital treated as income¶

^I4142 Notional income¶

^F147I4243 Notional earnings of seasonal workers¶

^I4344 Modifications in respect of children and young persons¶

^{C43C51C54C56C73}45 ^I135Capital limit¶

^I4446 Calculation of capital¶

^I4547 Disregard of capital of child or young person¶

^I4648 Income treated as capital¶

^I4749 Calculation of capital in the United Kingdom¶

^I4850 Calculation of capital outside the United Kingdom¶

^I4951 Notional capital¶

51A Diminishing notional capital rule¶

^I5052 Capital jointly held¶

^{I51C40C41C44C45C52C55C57C75C74C76}53 Calculation of tariff income from capital¶

^I5254 Interpretation¶

• ^F1523...
• “claimant” includes a young claimant;
• “claimant’s family” shall be construed in accordance with section 137 of the contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (interpretation of part 7 and supplementary provisions);
• “housing costs” means, those costs which may be met under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs);
• “liable relative” means—
  1. a spouse , former spouse, civil partner or former civil partner of a claimant or of a member of the claimant's family;
  2. a parent of a child or young person who is a member of the claimant's family or of a young claimant;
  3. a person who has not been adjudged to be the father of a child or young person who is a member of the claimant's family or of a young claimant where that person is contributing towards the maintenance of that child, young person or young claimant and by reason of that contribution he may reasonably be treated as the father of that child, young person or young claimant;
  4. a person liable to maintain another person in the circumstances set out in section 78(6)(c) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (liability to maintain another person) where the latter is the claimant or a member of the claimant's family,
  and, in this definition, a reference to a child's, young person's or young claimant's parent includes any person in relation to whom the child, young person or young claimant was treated as a child or a member of the family;
• “ordinary clothing and footwear” means clothing and footwear for normal daily use but does not include school uniforms;
• “payment” means a periodical payment or any other payment made by or derived from a liable relative ^F1318... but it does not include any payment—
  1. arising from a disposition of property made in contemplation of, or as a consequence of—
     1. an agreement to separate; or
     2. any proceedings for judicial separation, divorce or nullity of marriage; or
     3. any proceedings for separation, dissolution or nullity in relation to a civil partnership;
  2. made after the death of the liable relative;
  3. made by way of a gift but not in aggregate or otherwise exceeding £250 in the period of 52 weeks beginning with the date on which the payment, or if there is more than one such payment the first payment, is made; and, in the case of a claimant who continues to be in receipt of income support at the end of the period of 52 weeks, this provision shall continue to apply thereafter with the modification that any subsequent period of 52 weeks shall begin with the first day of the benefit week in which the first payment is made after the end of the previous period of 52 weeks;
  4. to which regulation 44(2) applies (modifications in respect of children and young persons);
  5. made to a third party, or in respect of a third party, unless the payment is—
     1. in relation to the claimant or the claimant’s partner or is made or derived from a person falling within sub-paragraph (d) of the definition of liable relative; and
     2. ^F1624... in respect of food, ordinary clothing or footwear, fuel, rent for which housing benefit is payable, housing costs to the extent that they are met under regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) (housing costs), council tax or water charges;
  6. in kind;
  7. to, or in respect of, a child or young person who is to be treated as not being a member of the claimant's household under regulation 16 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the same household);
  8. which is not a periodical payment, to the extent that any amount of that payment—
     1. has already been taken into account under this Part by virtue of a previous claim or determination; or
     2. has been recovered under section 27(1) of the Act (prevention of duplication of payments) or is currently being recovered; or
     3. at the time the determination is made, has been used by the claimant except where he has deprived himself of that amount for the purpose of securing entitlement to income support or increasing the amount of that benefit;
  9. to which paragraph 73 of Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) applies.
• “periodical payment” means—
  1. a payment which is made or is due to be made at regular intervals ^F1320...;
  2. in a case where the liable relative has established a pattern of making payments at regular intervals, any such payment;
  3. any payment ^F1526... that does not exceed the amount of income support payable had that payment not been made;
  4. any payment representing a commutation of payments to which sub-paragraphs (a) or (b) of this definition applies whether made in arrears or in advance,
  but does not include a payment due to be made before the first benefit week pursuant to the claim which is not so made;
• “young claimant ” means a person aged 16 or over but under 20 who makes a claim for income support.

^I5355 Treatment of ^F1527... liable relative payments¶

55A  Disregard of payments treated as not relevant income¶

^I5456 Period over which periodical payments are to be taken into account¶

57 Period over which payments other than periodical payments are to be taken into account¶

^I5558 Calculation of the weekly amount of a ^F1531... liable relative payment¶

^I5659 Date on which a ^F1532... liable relative payment is to be treated as paid¶

^F132360 Liable relative payments to be treated as capital¶

^F130160A Interpretation¶

^F130160B Treatment of child support maintenance¶

^F130160C Calculation of the weekly amount of payments of child support maintenance ¶

^F130160D Date on which child support maintenance is to be treated as paid¶

^F130160E  Disregard of payments treated as not relevant income¶

^I57C2261 Interpretation¶