PART IICONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT
Persons not treated as engaged in remunerative workI16
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A person shall not be treated as engaged in F1remunerative work in so far as—
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he is engaged in child minding in his home;
c
he is engaged by a charity or F7voluntary organisationF10..., 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);
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he is engaged on a scheme for which a training allowance is being paid; F2...
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he is receiving assistance under the self-employment route;
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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); F4...
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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 F8or 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 F9those paragraphs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The following persons shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work–
a
a person who 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
subject to regulation 5(4) and (5) (persons treated as engaged in remunerative work), a person to whom section 126 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom section 124(1) of that Act (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by section 127(b) of that Act (effect of return to work);
c
a person to whom paragraph 4 of Schedule 1B applies;
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a person who is in employment, who lives in, or is temporarily absent from, a residential care home, a nursing home or residential accommodation and who requires personal care by reason of old age, disablement, past or present dependence on alcohol or drugs, past or present mental disorder or a terminal illness.
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A person shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period specified in paragraph (6) in so far as—
a
he or his partner is engaged in work which—
i
is remunerative work; and
ii
he, or his partner, is expected to be engaged in for a period of no less than five weeks;
b
he or his partner had, 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), been entitled to and in receipt of income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance;
c
he or his partner had, as at the day before the day on which he commenced the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a), an applicable amount which included—
i
an amount determined in accordance with Schedule 3 (housing costs) as applicable to him in respect of a loan which qualifies under paragraph 15 or 16 of that Schedule; or
ii
an amount determined in accordance with Schedule 2 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (housing costs) as applicable to him in respect of a loan which qualifies under paragraph 14 or 15 of that Schedule; and
d
he or his partner remain liable to make payments on such a loan.
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A person referred to in paragraph (5) shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work for—
a
the period of four weeks commencing with the day on which he was first engaged in the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph; or
b
in the case of a person to whom paragraph (2) applies, a period of two weeks commencing with the day after the end of the 14 day period specified in paragraph (3).
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In calculating the period of benefit entitlement referred to in paragraph (2)(b) or (5)(b), no account shall be taken of entitlement arising by virtue of paragraph (3) or (6).
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In paragraph (5), a reference to the claimant or his partner being entitled to and in receipt of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or to an amount being applicable to either of them under the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 shall include a reference to the claimant and his partner being entitled to, and in receipt of, a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance and to an amount being applicable to that couple under those Regulations.