Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 1973

The Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1987 No. 1973

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987

Made	20th November 1987

Coming into force

11th April 1988

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

PART I
General
1.	Citation and commencement
2.	Interpretation
PART II
Presence in Great Britain and remunerative work
3.	Circumstances in which a person is treated as being or as not being in Great Britain
4.	Remunerative work
5.	Engagement in remunerative work and normal engagement
PART III
Membership of a family
6.	Persons of a prescribed description
7.	Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another
8.	Membership of the same household
9.	Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being no longer a member of the same household
PART IV
Income and Capital
CHAPTER I:
GENERAL
10.	Calculation of income and capital of members of claimant's family and of a polygamous marriage
11.	Calculation of income and capital of students
12.	Disregard of fractions
CHAPTER II:
NORMAL WEEKLY INCOME
13.	Calculation of income on a weekly basis
14.	Normal weekly earnings of employed earners
15.	Normal weekly earnings of self-employed earners
16.	Normal weekly income other than earnings
17.	Periods to be disregarded
18.	Calculation of weekly amount of income
CHAPTER III:
EMPLOYED EARNERS
19.	Earnings of employed earners
20.	Calculation of net earnings of employed earners
CHAPTER IV:
SELF-EMPLOYED EARNERS
21.	Earnings of self-employed earners
22.	Calculation of net profit of self-employed earners
23.	Deduction of tax and contributions for self-employed earners
CHAPTER V:
OTHER INCOME
24.	Calculation of income other than earnings
25.	Capital treated as income
26.	Notional income
27.	Modifications in respect of children and young persons
CHAPTER VI:
CAPITAL
28.	Capital limit
29.	Calculation of capital
30.	Disregard of capital of child or young person
31.	Income treated as capital
32.	Calculation of capital in the United Kingdom
33.	Calculation of capital outside the United Kingdom
34.	Notional capital
35.	Capital jointly held
36.	Calculation of tariff income from capital
CHAPTER VII:
STUDENTS
37.	Interpretation
38.	Calculation of grant income
39.	Calculation of covenant income where a contribution is assessed
40.	Covenant income where no grant income or no contribution is assessed
41.	Relationship with amounts to be disregarded under Schedule 2
42.	Other amounts to be disregarded
43.	Disregard of contribution
44.	Disregard of tax refund
45.	Disregard of changes occurring during summer vacation
PART V
Calculation of entitlement
46.	Determination of appropriate maximum family credit
47.	Applicable amount of family credit
48.	Entitlement to family credit where income exceeds the applicable amount
PART VI
Changes of circumstances
49.	Death of claimant
50.	Prevention of duplication of awards of family credit and income support
51.	Overlapping awards of family credit

SCHEDULES
	1.	Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings
	2.	Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings
	3.	Capital to be disregarded
	4.	Determination of maximum family credit: adult, child and young person credits

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