PART VE+W+SINCOME AND CAPITAL

CHAPTER IIE+W+Sincome

Date on which income is treated as paidE+W+S

31.—(1) Except where paragraph [F1(2) [F2applies]], a payment of income to which regulation 29 (calculation of earnings derived from employed earner's employment and income other than earnings) applies shall be treated as paid—

(a)in the case of a payment which is due to be paid before the first benefit week pursuant to the claim, on the date on which it is due to be paid;

(b)in any other case, on the first day of the benefit week in which it is due to be paid or the first succeeding benefit week in which it is practicable to take it into account.

(2) Income support, [F3jobseeker’s allowance], [F4maternity allowance,] [F5short-term or long-term incapacity benefit], [F6severe disablement allowance [F7, employment and support allowance or universal credit]] F8... shall be treated as paid [F9on any day] in respect of which [F10it is payable].

F11(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F11(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F3Words in reg. 31(2) 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), 15

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 31 in force at 11.4.1988, see reg. 1