PART 4Treatment and calculation of income

Earnings to be disregardedI114

1

Earnings derived from employment as an employed earner or a self-employed earner are to be disregarded in the calculation of the adult’s income for the purposes of the financial assessment.

2

For the purposes of this regulation—

a

earnings in relation to an employed earner has the same meaning—

i

as in regulation 35 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 200620;

ii

where the earner has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit, as in regulation 35 of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (earnings of employed earners)21; and

b

earnings in relation to a self-employed earner has the same meaning as in regulation 37 of the Income Support Regulations (earnings of self-employed earners)22.