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Regulations 96(2) and 98(2)

SCHEDULE 7N.I.Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings

1.—(1) In the case of a claimant who has been engaged in remunerative work as an employed earner or, had the employment been in Northern Ireland, would have been so engaged—N.I.

(a)any earnings, other than items to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, paid or due to be paid from that employment which terminated before the first day of entitlement to an income-related allowance;

(b)any earnings, other than a payment of the nature described in [F1sub-paragraph (2)(a) or (b)(ii)] , paid or due to be paid from that employment which has not been terminated where the claimant is not—

(i)engaged in remunerative work, or

(ii)suspended from employment.

(2) This sub-paragraph applies to—

[F2(a)any payment of the nature described in—

(i)regulation 95(1)(e) or (l) (in so far as it relates to regulation 95(1)(e)) (earnings of employed earners), or

(ii)Article 60, 96 or 100 of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (guarantee payments, suspension from work on medical or maternity grounds); and]

(b)any award, sum or payment of the nature described in—

(i)regulation 95(1)(g), (i) or (l) (in so far as it relates to regulation 95(1)(g) or (i)), or

(ii)Article 66 or 102 of the Employment Rights Order (guarantee payments and suspension from work: complaints to employment tribunals),

including any payment made following the settlement of a complaint to an employment tribunal or of court proceedings.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in Sch. 7 para. 1(1)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(d) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/338), reg. 8(17)(a)

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 7 para. 1 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

2.—(1) In the case of a claimant to whom this paragraph applies, any earnings (other than a payment of the nature described in [F3paragraph 1(2)(a) or (b)(ii)] ) which relate to employment which ceased before the first day of entitlement to an income-related allowance whether or not that employment has terminated.N.I.

(2) This paragraph applies to a claimant who has been engaged in part-time employment as an employed earner or, had the employment been in Northern Ireland, would have been so engaged; but it does not apply to a claimant who has been suspended from employment.

Textual Amendments

F3Words in Sch. 7 para. 2(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2)(d) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/338), reg. 8(17)(c)

Commencement Information

I2Sch. 7 para. 2 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

3.  If the claimant’s partner has been engaged in remunerative work as an employed earner or, had the employment been in Northern Ireland, would have been so engaged, any earnings paid or due to be paid on termination of that employment by way of retirement but only if—N.I.

(a)on retirement the partner is entitled to a retirement pension under the Contributions and Benefits Act; or

(b)the only reason the partner is not entitled to a retirement pension under that Act is because the contribution conditions are not satisfied.

Commencement Information

I3Sch. 7 para. 3 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

[F43A.  If the claimant’s partner has been engaged in remunerative work as an employed earner or, had the employment been in Northern Ireland, would have been so engaged, any earnings paid or due to be paid on termination of that employment by way of retirement but only if—N.I.

(a)on retirement the partner is entitled to a state pension under Part 1 of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015; or

(b)the only reason the partner is not entitled to a state pension under Part 1 of that Act is because the partner does not have the minimum number of qualifying years.]

Textual Amendments

4.  In the case of a claimant who has been engaged in remunerative work or part-time employment as a self-employed earner or, had the employment been in Northern Ireland, would have been so engaged and who has ceased to be so employed, from the date of the cessation of the claimant’s employment any earnings derived from that employment except earnings to which regulation 92(2) (royalties, etc.) applies.N.I.

Commencement Information

I4Sch. 7 para. 4 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

5.  In the case of a claimant who is undertaking work which falls within one of the categories in regulation 45(2) to (4) any earnings derived from that work which do not exceed the limits specified for that work of £20 in regulation 45(2) or, as the case may be, [F516 times the national minimum wage] in regulation 45(3) or (4).N.I.

Textual Amendments

F5Words in Sch. 7 para. 5 substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/135), regs. 1(3), 14(11)

Commencement Information

I5Sch. 7 para. 5 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

[F65A.  In the case of a claimant who receives a payment to which regulation 92(2) applies, £20, except where regulation 45(2) to (4) applies to the claimant, in which case the amounts specified in paragraph 6 shall apply, but only up to a maximum of £20.]N.I.

Textual Amendments

6.  Where regulation 45(2), (3) or (4) applies to the claimant and that claimant’s earnings are less than—N.I.

(a)in a case to which regulation 45(2) applies, £20;

(b)in a case to which regulation 45(3) or (4) applies, £88∙50,

the earnings of the claimant’s partner are to be disregarded to the extent that the claimant’s earnings are less than £20 or, as the case may be, [F716 times the national minimum wage] , but only up to a maximum of £20.

Textual Amendments

F7Words in Sch. 7 para. 6 substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/135), regs. 1(3), 14(11)

Commencement Information

I6Sch. 7 para. 6 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

7.—(1) In a case to which this paragraph applies, £20; but notwithstanding regulation 83 (calculation of income and capital of members of claimant’s family and of a polygamous marriage), if this paragraph applies to a claimant it shall not apply to the claimant’s partner except where, and to the extent that, the earnings of the claimant which are to be disregarded under this paragraph are less than £20.N.I.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), this paragraph applies in the case of a claimant to whom regulation 40(2)(a), (b) or (e), 43(1)(a), (d), (e) or (f) or (2) or 45(5) applies.

(3) Where a claimant is doing the work set out in regulation 40(2)(b) and is also undertaking any of the categories of work set out in regulation 45(2) to (4), this paragraph applies only to the extent that the claimant’s earnings are less than the limit of—

(a)£20 set out in regulation 45(2); or

(b)[F816 times the national minimum wage] set out in regulation 45(3) or (4),

as the case may be.

(4) This paragraph applies, in a case where the claimant’s partner is in part-time employment and paragraph 6 does not apply.

Textual Amendments

F8Words in Sch. 7 para. 7(3)(b) substituted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending Rule) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/135), regs. 1(3), 14(11)

Commencement Information

I7Sch. 7 para. 7 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

8.  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, where 2 or more payments of earnings of the same kind and from the same source are to be taken into account in the same benefit week, because it has not been practicable to treat the payments under regulation 93(1)(b) (date on which income treated as paid) as paid on the first day of the benefit week in which they were due to be paid, there is to be disregarded from each payment the sum that would have been disregarded if the payment had been taken into account on the date on which it was due to be paid.N.I.

Commencement Information

I8Sch. 7 para. 8 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

9.  Any earnings derived from employment which are payable in a country outside the United Kingdom for such period during which there is a prohibition against the transfer to the United Kingdom of those earnings.N.I.

Commencement Information

I9Sch. 7 para. 9 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

10.  Where a payment of earnings is made in a currency other than sterling, any banking charge or commission payable in converting that payment into sterling.N.I.

Commencement Information

I10Sch. 7 para. 10 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

11.  Any earnings which are due to be paid before the date of claim and which would otherwise fall to be taken into account in the same benefit week as a payment of the same kind and from the same source.N.I.

Commencement Information

I11Sch. 7 para. 11 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

[F911A.—(1) In the case of an income-related employment and support allowance, where earnings to which sub-paragraph (2) applies (in aggregate with the claimant's other income (if any) calculated in accordance with this Part) exceed the applicable amount (calculated as specified in section 4(2) and (3) of the Act) less 10 pence, the amount of those earnings corresponding to that excess.

(2) This paragraph applies to earnings, in so far as they exceed the amount disregarded under paragraph 7, derived by the claimant's partner from employment as a member of any F10...reserve force prescribed in Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 2001 in respect of annual continuous training for a maximum period of 15 days in any calendar year [F11or in respect of training in the claimant’s partner’s first year of training as a member of a reserve force for a maximum of 43 days in that year] .]

Textual Amendments

12.  In the case of a claimant who—N.I.

(a)has been engaged in employment as a member of any F12...reserve force prescribed in Part 1 of Schedule 1; and

(b)by reason of that employment has failed to satisfy any of the conditions for entitlement to an income-related allowance other than paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Act (income not in excess of the applicable amount),

any earnings from that employment paid in respect of the period in which the claimant was not entitled to an income-related allowance.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I12Sch. 7 para. 12 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

13.  In the case of a person to whom regulation 6(5) of the Income Support Regulations (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies, any earnings.N.I.

Commencement Information

I13Sch. 7 para. 13 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)

14.  In this Schedule—N.I.

“part-time employment” means, if the person were entitled to income support, employment in which the person is not to be treated as engaged in remunerative work under regulation 5 or 6(1) or (4) of the Income Support Regulations (persons treated, or not treated, as engaged in remunerative work);

“remunerative work”, for the purposes of this paragraph and paragraphs 1, 3 and 4, has the meaning given by regulation 5 of the Income Support Regulations, except for paragraphs (3B) and (4) of that regulation.

Commencement Information

I14Sch. 7 para. 14 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)