# The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 2013, Regulation 60: Earnings of self-employed earners


(1) Subject to paragraph (2), “earnings”, in the case of employment as a self-employed earner, means the gross receipts of the employment.
(2) “Earnings” does not include—
(a) where a claimant is involved in providing board and lodging accommodation for which a charge is payable, any payment by way of such a charge;
(b) any payment made to the claimant with whom a person is accommodated by virtue of arrangements made—
(i) under section 22C(2), (3), (5) or (6)(a) or (b) of the Children Act 1989 (provision of accommodation and maintenance for a child whom the local authority is looking after);
(ii) by a local authority under section 26 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (manner of provision of accommodation to child looked after by local authority); or
(iii) by a local authority under regulation 33 or 51 of the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (fostering and kinship care allowances and fostering allowances); or
(iv) by a voluntary organisation under section 59(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989 (provision of accommodation by voluntary organisations);
(c) any payment made to the claimant for a person (“the person concerned”), who is not normally a member of the claimant’s household but is temporarily in the claimant’s care, by—
(i) the National Health Service Commissioning Board;
(ii) a local authority but excluding payments of housing benefit made in respect of the person concerned;
(iii) a voluntary organisation;
(iv) the person concerned pursuant to section 26(3A) of the National Assistance Act 1948;
(v) a clinical commissioning group established under section 14D of the Health Service Act; or
(vi) a Local Health Board established by an order made under section 11 of the Health Service (Wales) Act;
(d) any sports award.
(3) In this regulation, “board and lodging accommodation” means—
(a) accommodation provided to a person or, if they are a member of a family, to them or any other member of their family, for a charge which is inclusive of—
(i) the provision of that accommodation; and
(ii) at least some cooked or prepared meals which are cooked or prepared (by a person other than the person to whom the accommodation is provided or a member of their family) and consumed in that accommodation or associated premises; or
(b) accommodation provided to a person in a hotel, guest house, lodging house or some similar establishment,
except accommodation provided by a close relative of theirs or of any other member of their family, or other than on a commercial basis.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111531921/regulation/60 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-jobseekers-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-60
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