The Social Security (Incapacity, Earnings and Work Trials) Pilot Schemes Regulations 1999

Work Trials

5.—(1) A person to whom this regulation applies shall be treated as incapable of work on any day, in whole or in part as the case may be, on which he does any approved work in a period of incapacity for work consisting of days, or part days, as the case may be, aggregated to not more than 15 days.

(2) This regulation applies to a person—

(a) who has been incapable of work or treated as incapable of work for a period of incapacity for work of more than 196 days;

(b) who is receiving a prescribed benefit; and

(c) who is engaged in approved work on a trial basis.

(3) In this regulation—

• “approved work” means, in relation to a person, work arranged in writing by the Employment Service of the Department for Education and Employment with an employer in respect of that person;

• “a period of incapacity for work” means—

  (a)

  a period of 4 or more consecutive days each of which is a day on which a person is incapable of work and any two such periods separated by a period of not more than 8 weeks is to be treated as one period of incapacity for work, or

  (b)

  such larger number of weeks as is prescribed under section 30C(4)(b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act; and

• “trial basis” means such trial period and other related matters as may be agreed between the person, the Department for Education and Employment and an employer in relation to the approved work.