PART 1EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT ALLOWANCE

Miscellaneous

17Income and capital: general

1

In relation to a claim for an employment and support 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, which may provide for the calculation to be made by reference to an average over a period (which need not include the week concerned).

3

Circumstances may be prescribed in which—

a

a person is to be 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.

4

Regulations may provide that a person’s capital shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part to yield him an income at a prescribed rate.