14.—(1) In relation to a claim for a jobseeker’s allowance, the income and capital of a person shall be calculated or estimated in such manner as may be prescribed.
(2) A person’s income in respect of a week shall be calculated in accordance with prescribed rules.
(3) The rules may provide for the calculation to be made by reference to an average over a period (which need not include the week concerned).
(4) Circumstances may be prescribed in which—
(a)a person is treated as possessing capital or income which he does not possess;
(b)capital or income which a person does possess is to be disregarded;
(c)income is to be treated as capital;
(d)capital is to be treated as income;
15.—(1) No person shall be entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance if his capital, or a prescribed part of it, exceeds the prescribed amount.
(2) Where a person claiming an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is a member of a family, the income and capital of any member of that family shall, except in prescribed circumstances, be treated as the income and capital of the claimant.
(3) Regulations may provide that capital not exceeding the amount prescribed under paragraph (1), but exceeding a prescribed lower amount, shall be treated, to a prescribed extent, as if it were income of a prescribed amount.