The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

Persons not treated as engaged in remunerative workE+W+S

6.—[F1(1)] A person shall not be treated as engaged in [F2remunerative work in so far as—]

[F3(a)he is mentally or physically disabled, and by reason of that disability—

(i)his earnings are reduced to 75 per cent. or less of what a person without that disability and working the same number of hours would reasonably be expected to earn in that employment or in comparable employment in the area; or

(ii)his number of hours of work are 75 per cent. or less of what a person without that disability would reasonably be expected to undertake in that employment or in comparable employment in the area.]

(b)he is engaged in child minding in his home;

(c)he is engaged by a charity or [F4voluntary organisationF5...,] or is a volunteer where the only payment received by him or due to be paid to him, is a payment which is to be disregarded under regulation 40(2) and paragraph 2 of Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings);

(d)he is engaged on a scheme for which a training allowance is being paid; F6...

(e)subject to regulation 5(4) [F7and (5)] (persons treated as engaged in remunerative work) he is a person to whom section 23 of the Act (trade disputes) applies [F8or in respect of whom section 20(3) of the Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 23A(b) of the Act (effect of return to work)];F6...

[F9(f)he is a person to whom paragraph 4 of Schedule 1B applies;]

[F10(g)he is in employment, and—

(i)lives in, or is temporarily absent from, a residential care home, a nursing home or residential accommodation, and either

(ii)his, or his partner’s, applicable amount falls to be calculated in accordance with Part I of Schedule 4 (applicable amounts of persons in residential care and nursing homes) or, as the case may be, paragraph 9, 10 to 10D, 13, 16 or 18 of Schedule 7 (applicable amounts in special cases), or

(iii)he or his partner satisfies the conditions specified in paragraph 2A(2) of Part I of Schedule 2 (conditions for entitlement to a residential allowance);]

[F11(h)he is engaged in any one of the employments mentioned in heads (a) to (d) of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 7 of Schedule 8 (which relates to persons serving as firemen, in coastal rescue activities etc); F12...]

[F11(j)he is performing his duties as a councillor, and for this purpose “councillor” has the same meaning as in paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 8 to the Social Security Act [F131989; or]]

[F14(k)he is engaged in caring for a person who is accommodated with him by virtue of arrangements made under any of the provisions referred to in paragraph 26 [F15or in accordance with paragraph 27] of Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) and is in receipt of any payment specified in [F16those paragraphs].]

[F17(m)he is engaged in an activity in respect of which—

(i)a sports award has been made, or is to be made, to him; and

(ii)no other payment is made or is expected to be made to him.]

[F18(2) A lone parent shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period specified in paragraph (3) in so far as—

(a)he is engaged in work which—

(i)is remunerative work; and

(ii)he is expected to be engaged in for a period of no less than five weeks; and

(b)he had been, for a continuous period of 26 weeks ending on the day before the day on which he commenced the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a)—

(i)entitled to and in receipt of income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance; and

(ii)a lone parent.

(3)A person referred to in paragraph (2) shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period of 14 days commencing with the day on which he was first engaged in the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph.]

Textual Amendments

F4Words in reg. 6(c) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 23(a)

F6Word in reg. 6(d)(e) omitted (6.4.1992) by virtue of The Income Support (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/468), regs. 1(1), 2(a) (with reg. 1(2))

F9Reg. 6(f) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/206), regs. 1(1), 6

F12Word in reg. 6(h) revoked (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 13(a)

F13Words in reg. 6(j) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 13(b)

F14Reg. 6(k) added (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2155), regs. 1(1), 13(c)

F15Words in reg. 6(k) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 23(b)

F16Words in reg. 6(k) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2139), regs. 1(1)(a), 23(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 6 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1