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Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 1967

The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1987 No. 1967

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

Made20th November 1987
Coming into Force11th April 1988


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

PART I
General
1. Citation and commencement
2. Interpretation
3. Definition of non-dependant
PART II
Conditions of Entitlement
4. Temporary absence from Great Britain
5. Persons treated as engaged in remunerative work
6. Persons not to be treated as engaged in remunerative work
7. Meaning of employment
8. Persons not required to be available for employment
9. Persons treated as available for employment
10. Persons treated as not available for employment
11. Registration for employment
12. Relevant education
13. Circumstances in which persons in relevant education are to be entitled to income support
PART III
Membership of a family
14. Persons of a prescribed description
15. Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another
16. Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the same household
PART IV
Applicable amounts
17. Applicable amounts
18. Polygamous marriages
19. Persons in residential care or nursing homes
20. Persons in board and lodging accommodation and hostels
21. Special cases
22. Reductions in applicable amounts in cases of voluntary unemployment
PART V
Income and capital
CHAPTER I: GENERAL
23. Calculation of income and capital of members of claimant's family and of a polygamous marriage
24. Treatment of charitable or voluntary payments
25. Liable relative payments
26. Calculation of income and capital of students
27. Disregard of fractions
CHAPTER II: INCOME
28. Calculation of income
29. Calculation of earnings derived from employed earners employment and income other than earnings
30. Calculation of earnings of self-employed earners
31. Date on which income is treated as paid
32. Calculation of weekly amount of income
33. Weekly amount of charitable or voluntary payment
34. Incomplete weeks of benefit
CHAPTER III: EMPLOYED EARNERS
35. Earnings of employed earners
36. Calculation of net earnings of employed earners
CHAPTER IV: SELF-EMPLOYED EARNERS
37. Earnings of self-employed earners
38. Calculation of net profit of self-employed earners
39. Deduction of tax and contributions for self-employed earners
CHAPTER V: OTHER INCOME
40. Calculation of income other than earnings
41. Capital treated as income
42. Notional income
43. Notional earnings of seasonal workers
44. Modifications in respect of children and young persons
CHAPTER VI: CAPITAL
45. Capital limit
46. Calculation of capital
47. Disregard of capital of child or young person
48. Income treated as capital
49. Calculation of capital in the United Kingdom
50. Calculation of capital outside the United Kingdom
51. Notional capital
52. Capital jointly held
53. Calculation of tariff income from capital
CHAPTER VII: LIABLE RELATIVES
54. Interpretation
55. Treatment of liable relative payments
56. Period over which periodical payments are to be taken into account
57. Period over which payments other than periodical payments are to be taken into account
58. Calculation of the weekly amount of a liable relative payment
59. Date on which a liable relative payment is to be treated as paid
60. Liable relative payments to be treated as capital
CHAPTER VIII: STUDENTS
61. Interpretation
62. Calculation of grant income
63. Calculation of covenant income where a contribution is assessed
64. Covenant income where no grant income or no contribution is assessed
65. Relationship with amounts to be disregarded under Schedule 9
66. Other amounts to be disregarded
67. Disregard of contribution
68. Income treated as capital
69. Disregard of changes occurring during summer vacation
PART VI
Applicable amounts and assessment of income and capital in urgent cases
70. Urgent cases
71. Applicable amounts in urgent cases
72. Assessment of income and capital in urgent cases

SCHEDULES

 1. Persons not required to be available for employment

 2. Applicable amounts

 3. Amounts in respect of housing costs

 4. Applicable amounts of persons in residential care or nursing homes

 5. Applicable amounts of persons in board and lodging accommodation

 6. Board and lodging areas

 7. Applicable amounts in special cases

 8. Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings

 9. Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings

 10. Capital to be disregarded

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