Regulation 5 Meaning of “engaged in caring”

(1)

For the purposes of subsection (3)(c) of section 23A, a person is engaged in caring in a week—

(a)

if that person is the partner of a person who is awarded child benefit for any part of that week in respect of a child under the age of 12;

(b)

if that person is caring for another person or persons for a total of 20 or more hours in that week and—

(i)

that other person is, or each of the persons cared for are, entitled to a relevant benefit for that week; or

(ii)

the Secretary of State considers that level of care to be appropriate;

(c)

if that person is one to whom any of paragraphs 4 to 6 (persons caring for another person) of Schedule 1B (prescribed categories of person) to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987^f1 applies.

(2)

Paragraph (1) is subject to regulations 6 to 8.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1987/1967. Schedule 1B was inserted by S.I. 1996/206. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1996/1517, S.I. 2000/681, S.I. 2001/859, S.I. 2002/490 and S.I. 2002/2497.