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Chapter II Availability for Employment
5. Exceptions to requirement to be available immediately: carers, voluntary workers, persons providing a service and persons under an obligation to provide notice
7. Restriction of hours for which a person is available to 40 hours per week
13. Additional restrictions on availability for certain groups
14. Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available
15. Circumstances in which a person is not to be regarded as available
16. Further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available: permitted period
17A.Further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as available: full-time students participating in a qualifying course
Chapter III Actively Seeking Employment
18. Steps to be taken by persons actively seeking employment
18A.Actively seeking employment in the period at the beginning of a claim
19. Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as actively seeking employment
20. Further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as actively seeking employment: permitted period
21. Further circumstances in which a person is to be treated as actively seeking employment: laid off and short-time workers
21A. Further circumstances in which a qualifying person is to be treated as actively seeking employment: full-time students participating in a qualifying course
22. Interpretation of certain expressions for the purposes of regulations 18(3)(f)(i) and 19(1)(d)
Chapter IV Attendance, Information and Evidence
28. Matters to be taken into account in determining whether a claimant has good cause for failing to comply with a notice under regulation 23
29. Matters to be taken into account in determining whether a claimant has good cause for failing to provide a signed declaration
30. Circumstances in which a claimant is to be regarded as having good cause for failing to comply with a notice under regulation 23
Chapter IVA Participants in the Self-Employment Route of the Employment Option of the New Deal
102B. Treatment of gross receipts of participants in the self-employment route of the Employment Option of the New Deal
102C. Calculation of income of participants in the self-employment route of the Employment Option of the New Deal
102D. Deduction in respect of tax for participants in the self-employment route of the Employment Option of the New Deal
PART XII SPECIAL CATEGORIES SHARE FISHERMEN, PERSONS OUTSIDE GREAT BRITAIN AND MEMBERS OF THE FORCES
SCHEDULES
5.Except as provided in paragraph 6, the weekly premiums specified...
6.Subject to paragraph 7, where a claimant satisfies the conditions...
7.(1) The severe disability premium to which paragraph 15 applies...
8.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) for the purposes of this...
11. Pensioner premium where claimant’s partner has attained the age of 75
14. Additional Conditions for Higher Pensioner and Disability Premium
APPLICABLE AMOUNTS OF PERSONS IN RESIDENTIAL CARE AND NURSING HOMES
1.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the weekly applicable amount of...
2.(1) Where, in addition to the weekly charge for accommodation,...
3.Where any part of the weekly charge for the accommodation...
7.The appropriate amount applicable to a claimant in a residential...
8.(1) Where more than one amount would otherwise be applicable,...
9.(1) Where the accommodation provided for the claimant is a...
SUMS TO BE DISREGARDED IN THE CALCULATION OF EARNINGS
10.Where the claimant is engaged in one or more employments...
13.Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, where two or...
14.Any earnings derived from employment which are payable in a...
17.Any earnings of a child or young person except earnings...
20.In this Schedule “part-time employment" means employment in which the...
21.In paragraph 5(7)(b) “permitted period" means a period determined in...
SUMS TO BE DISREGARDED IN THE CALCULATION OF INCOME OTHER THAN EARNINGS
7.The mobility component of disability living allowance, or any mobility...
8.Any concessionary payment made to compensate for the non-payment of—...
9.Any mobility supplement or any payment intended to compensate for...
10.Any attendance allowance or the care component of disability living...
12.Any– education maintenance allowance payable by virtue of regulations made...
14.In the case of a claimant participating in arrangements for...
15.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) and paragraphs 38, 39 and...
16.(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, in...
16A.(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), where a claimant—...
18.Where a claimant receives income under an annuity purchased with...
20.Where the claimant occupies a dwelling as his home and...
21.Where the claimant occupies a dwelling as his home and...
22.(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), except where regulation...
23.(1) Any income derived from capital to which the claimant...
30.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any payment received under an...
31.(1) Except where paragraph 30 or 31A applies, and subject...
31A.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any payment received under an...
32.(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), in the case...
34.Any payment of income which under regulation 110 (income treated...
35.Any payment under Part X of the Benefits Act (pensioner’s...
39.Notwithstanding paragraph 38, where two or more payments of the...
40.Any resettlement benefit which is paid to the claimant by...
41.(1) Any payment made under the Macfarlane Trust, the Macfarlane...
42.Any payment made by the Secretary of State to compensate...
45.Any payment in consequence of a reduction of a personal...
47.(1) Any payment or repayment made– (a) as respects England...
50.Any payment (other than a training allowance) made, whether by...
53.Any supplementary pension under article 29(1A) of the Naval, Military...
56.Any payment made under the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act...
57.(1) Subject to paragraph 58, any Career Development Loan paid...
58.Any Career Development Loan paid to the claimant pursuant to...
59.(1) Any payment specified in sub-paragraph (2) to a claimant...
60.Any mandatory top-up payment made to a person pursuant to...
61.Any discretionary payment to meet, or to help to meet,...
63.(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any discretionary payment made pursuant...
64.Any payment which falls to be treated as notional income...
65.Any child care expenses reimbursed to the claimant in respect...
66.Any top-up payment made to a person (“the participant”) pursuant...
69.In the case of a claimant participating in an employment...
1.The dwelling occupied as the home but, notwithstanding regulation 88,...
2.Any premises acquired for occupation by the claimant which he...
3.Any sum directly attributable to the proceeds of sale of...
5.Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly...
6.Any premises where the claimant is taking reasonable steps to...
7.Any premises which the claimant intends to occupy as his...
8.Any premises which the claimant intends to occupy as his...
10.Any future interest in property of any kind, other than...
12.Any arrears of, or any concessionary payment made to compensate...
14.Any sum— (a) deposited with a housing association as defined...
15.Any personal possessions except those which have or had been...
25.Any capital which under regulation 104, 106(1) or 136 (capital...
27.(1) Any payment made under the Macfarlane Trust, the Macfarlane...
33.Any payment made by the Secretary of State to compensate...
35.Any payment in consequence of a reduction of a personal...
36.(1) Any payment or repayment made– (a) as respects England...
39.Any arrears of special war widows payment which is disregarded...
40.Any payment (other than a training allowance, or a training...
45.Any mandatory top-up payment made to a person pursuant to...
46.Any discretionary payment to meet, or to help to meet,...
48.Any discretionary payment made pursuant to section 2 of the...
49.Any child care expenses reimbursed to the claimant in respect...
50.Any top-up payment made to a person (“the participant”) pursuant...
52.Any education maintenance allowance payable by virtue of regulations made...
53.In the case of a claimant participating in an employment...
54.Any arrears of subsistence allowance paid as a lump sum...
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