{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1973",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-credit-general-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Calculation of weekly amount of income",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of regulation 14 (normal weekly earnings of employed earners) and 16 (normal weekly income other than income other than earnings), where the claimant’s pay period or, as the case may be, the period in respect of which a payment is made—\n(a) does not exceed a week, the weekly amount shall be the amount of that payment;\n(b) exceeds a week, the weekly amount shall be determined—\n(i) in a case where that period is a month, by multiplying the amount of the payment by 12 and dividing the product by 52;\n(ii) in a case where that period is 3 months, by multiplying the amount of the payment by 4 and dividing the product by 52;\n(iii) in a case where that period is a year, by dividing the amount of the payment by 52;\n(iv) in any other case, by multiplying the amount of the payment by 7 and dividing the product by the number equal to the number of days in the period in respect of which it is made.\n(2) For the purposes of regulation 15 (normal weekly earnings of self-employed earners) the weekly amount of earnings of a claimant shall be determined—\n(a) except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, by multiplying by 7 his earnings\n(i) received in the assessment period, or\n(ii) estimated for the assessment period, or\n(iii) both received in and estimated for that period,\nas the ease may be, and dividing the product by the number equal to the number of days in that period;\n(b) in a case where regulation 15(1)(b) applies, by multiplying his earnings relevant to the assessment period (whether or not received in that period) by 7 and dividing the product by the number equal to the number of days in that period.\n(3) For the purposes of regulation 14A (normal weekly earnings of directors) the weekly amount of earnings of a claimant shall be determined by dividing his earnings—\n(i) received in the assessment period, or\n(ii) estimated for the assessment period, or\n(iii) both received in and estimated for that period,\nas the case may be, by the number equal to the number of weeks in that period.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(1) substituted (7.1.1997) by The Disability Working Allowance and Family Credit (General) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/3137), regs. 1, 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 18(2) substituted (5.12.1988) by Family Credit (General) Amendment No. 4 Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1970), reg. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 18(2)(a) substituted (12.4.1994) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(c), 15(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 18(3) added (12.4.1994) by The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/527), regs. 1(1)(c), 15(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1973/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:34:16.817264+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}