The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

Calculation of income other than earnings

103.—(1) For the purposes of regulation 94 (calculation of income other than earnings) F1 ... the income of a claimant which does not consist of earnings to be taken into account shall, subject to the following provisions of this regulation, be his gross income and any capital treated as income under [F2 regulations 104 and 106 (capital treated as income and modifications in respect of children and young persons)] [F2 regulation 104 (capital treated as income)].

(2) There shall be disregarded from the calculation of a claimant’s gross income under paragraph (1) any sum, where applicable, specified in Schedule 7.

(3) Where the payment of any benefit under the Act or under the Benefits Act is subject to any deduction by way of recovery, the amount to be taken into account under paragraph (1) shall be the gross amount to which the beneficiary is entitled.

F3 (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F4 (5) [F5 Paragraphs (5ZA) and (5AZA) apply] where—

(a) a relevant payment has been made to a person in an academic year; and

(b) that person abandons, or is dismissed from, his course of study before the payment to him of the final instalment of the relevant payment.

(5ZA) [F6 Where a relevant payment is made quarterly, the] amount of a relevant payment to be taken into account for the assessment period for the purposes of paragraph (1) in respect of a person to whom paragraph (5) applies, shall be calculated by applying the formula—

where—

A = the total amount of the relevant payment which that person would have received had he remained a student until the last day of the academic term in which he abandoned, or was dismissed from, his course, less any deduction under regulation 136(5);

B = the number of benefit weeks from the benefit week immediately following that which includes the first day of that academic year to the benefit week immediately before that which includes the day on which the person abandoned, or was dismissed from, his course;

C = the weekly amount of the relevant payment, before the application of the £10 disregard, which would have been taken into account as income under regulation 136(2) had the person not abandoned or been dismissed from, his course and, in the case of a person who was not entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance immediately before he abandoned or was dismissed from his course, had that person, at that time, been entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance;

D = the number of benefit weeks in the assessment period.

[F7 (5AZA)  Where a relevant payment is made by two or more instalments in a quarter, the amount of a relevant payment to be taken into account for the assessment period for the purposes of paragraph (1) in respect of a person to whom paragraph (5) applies, shall be calculated by applying the formula in paragraph (5ZA) but as if—

A

=

the total amount of relevant payments which that person received, or would have received, from the first day of the academic year to the day the person abandoned the course, or was dismissed from it, less any deduction under regulation 136(5).]

(5ZB) [F8 In this regulation]—

“academic year” and “student loan” shall have the same meanings as for the purposes of Chapter IX of this Part;

[F9 “assessment period” means—

(a)

in a case where a relevant payment is made quarterly, the period beginning with the benefit week which includes the day on which the person abandoned, or was dismissed from, his course and ending with the benefit week which includes the last day of the last quarter for which an instalment of the relevant payment was payable to that person;

(b)

in a case where the relevant payment is made by two or more instalments in a quarter, the period beginning with the benefit week which includes the day on which the person abandoned, or was dismissed from, his course and ending with the benefit week which includes—

(i)

the day immediately before the day on which the next instalment of the relevant payment would have been due had the payments continued; or

(ii)

the last day of the last quarter for which an instalment of the relevant payment was payable to that person,

whichever of those dates is earlier;]

[F10 “quarter” in relation to an assessment period means a period in that year beginning on—

(a)

1st January and ending on 31st March;

(b)

1st April and ending on 30th June;

(c)

1st July and ending on 31st August; or

(d)

1st September and ending on 31st December;]

“relevant payment” means either a student loan or an amount intended for the maintenance of dependants referred to in regulation 131(5A) or both.]

[F11 (5A) In the case of income to which regulation 94(2B) applies (calculation of income of former full-time students), the amount of income to be taken into account for the purposes of paragraph (1) shall be the amount of that income calculated in accordance with regulation 97(7) and on the basis that none of that income has been repaid.]

[F12 (5B) Where the claimant—

(a) is a member of a couple;

(b) his partner is receiving a contributory employment and support allowance; and

(c) that benefit has been reduced under regulation 63 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations [F13 or section 11J of the Welfare Reform Act as the case may be],

the amount of that benefit to be taken into account is the amount as if it had not been reduced.]

(6) For the avoidance of doubt there shall be included as income to be taken into account under paragraph (1)

[F14 (a) any payment to which regulation 98(2)(a) to (e) or 100(2) (payments not earnings) applies; or

(b) in the case of a claimant who is receiving support under section 95 or 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act including support provided by virtue of regulations made under Schedule 9 to that Act, the amount of such support provided in respect of essential living needs of the claimant and his [F15 dependants] [F15 partner] (if any) as is specified in regulations made under paragraph 3 of Schedule 8 to the Immigration and Asylum Act.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 103(1) omitted (11.4.2011) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/674), regs. 1(4), 7(5)

F2 Words in reg. 103(1) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6)(7)(8) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 2 para. 8(a)

F3 Reg. 103(4) omitted (4.4.2005) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/574), regs. 1(1), 6(3)

F4 Reg. 103(5)(5ZA)(5ZB) substituted for reg. 103(5) (1.8.2001) by The Social Security Amendment (Students and Income-related Benefits) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/2319), regs. 1(1)(a), 5(2)

F5 Words in reg. 103(5) substituted (1.9.2008 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), regs. 1(3)(a)(b), 4(2)(a)

F6 Words in reg. 103(5ZA) substituted (1.9.2008 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 4(2)(b)

F7 Words in reg. 103(5AZA) inserted (1.9.2008 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 4(2)(c),

F8 Words in reg. 103(5ZB) substituted (1.9.2008 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 4(2)(c)(d)(i),

F9 Words in reg. 103(5ZB) substituted (1.9.2008 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 4(2)(c)(d)(ii),

F10 Words in reg. 103(5ZB) inserted (1.9.2008 for specified purposes) by The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1599), reg. 4(2)(c)(d)(iii),

F11 Reg. 103(5A) inserted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Income-related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/65), reg. 1(1)(2), 7(2)

F12 Reg. 103(5B) inserted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 3(16)

F13 Words in reg. 103(5B) inserted (29.4.2013) by The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/630), regs. 1(2), 30(5)

F14 Reg. 103(6)(a)(b) substituted for words (3.4.2000) by The Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/636), regs. 1(2), 4(4)

F15 Word in reg. 103(6)(b) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6)(7)(8) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 2 para. 8(b)