Supplementary Benefits Act 1976

Earnings

22 (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) below, the weekly earnings of any person shall be taken to be his net weekly earnings reduced—

(a) by £2, if he is the person claiming, or in receipt of, supplementary benefit and his right thereto is subject to the condition of registration for employment under section 5 of this Act, and paragraph (b) below does not apply ; or

(b) by £6, if he is the parent in a one parent family, that is to say, a person who has to provide for the requirements of another person who is a member of the same household, being a person whose resources are aggregated with, and treated as, his by virtue of paragraph 3(2) of this Schedule, and—

(i) that other person is either ,a child or a person who is not entitled to supplementary benefit by virtue of section 7 of this Act (persons completing secondary education); and

(ii) there is no one whose requirements are, or would but for exceptional circumstances be, aggregated with, and treated as, his under paragraph 3(1) of this Schedule ; or

(c) by £4, in any other case.

(2) There shall be wholly disregarded the weekly earnings of—

(a) a child ; and

(b) a person who is not entitled to supplementary benefit by virtue of section 7 of this Act (persons completing secondary education);

whose resources are, by virtue of paragraph 3(2) of this Schedule, aggregated with, and treated as, those of the person who has to provide for his requirements.

(3) Where a person who has, by reason of a stoppage of work which was due to a trade dispute at his place of employment, been without employment for any period during the stoppage becomes engaged in remunerative full-time work again in consequence of the ending of the stoppage—

(a) any advance of earnings made or offered to him during so much of that engagement as falls within the period of fifteen days from the beginning of the engagement shall be taken into account in calculating or estimating his net weekly earnings ; and

(b) for the purpose of any claim for supplementary benefit made by him during so much of that engagement as falls within that period of fifteen days, sub-paragraph (1) above shall have effect as regards his weekly earnings (but not those of any other person) subject to the following modification—

• the reduction provided for in sub-paragraph (1)(c) above shall not be applied to the full amount of his net weekly earnings but only to the amount (if any) by which his net weekly earnings exceed his net weekly earnings from his full-time work.