PART 6Assessment of income and capital

SECTION 4Self-employed earners

Earnings of self-employed earners38.

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2), “earnings”, in the case of employment as a self-employed earner, means the gross receipts of the employment F1....

(2)

“Earnings” in the case of employment as a self-employed earner does not include—

(a)

where a claimant occupies a dwelling as his home and he provides in that dwelling board and lodging accommodation for which payment is made, those payments;

(b)

any payment made by a local authority to a claimant—

(i)

with whom a person is accommodated by virtue of arrangements made under section 23(2)(a) of the Children Act 1989 F2 (provision of accommodation and maintenance for a child whom they are looking after) or, as the case may be, section 26(1) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 F3; or

F4(ii)

with whom a local authority foster a child under the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 or who is a kinship carer under those Regulations;

(c)

any payment made by a voluntary organisation in accordance with section 59(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989 (provision of accommodation by voluntary organisations);

(d)

any payment made to the claimant or his partner for a person (“the person concerned”) who is not normally a member of the claimant's household but is temporarily in his care, by—

(i)

a health authority;

(ii)

a local authority, but excluding payments of housing benefit made in respect of the person concerned;

(iii)

a voluntary organisation;

(iv)

the person concerned pursuant to section 26(3A) of the National Assistance Act 1948 F5; F6...

F7(iva)

a clinical commissioning group established under section 14D of the National Health Service Act 2006;

F7(ivb)

the National Health Service Commissioning Board; or

F8(v)

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(vi)

F9a Local Health Board established under section 16BA of the National Health Service Act 1977 or established by an order made under section 11 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006;

(e)

any sports award.