Article 5 Definition of qualifying benefit

“Qualifying benefit” means any of the following—

(a)

income support;

(b)

working tax credit, provided that—

(i)

child tax credit is being paid to the applicant, or otherwise following a claim made jointly by the applicant and another person as a couple pursuant to section 3(3) of the Tax Credits Act 2002^f1; or

(ii)

there is a disability element or severe disability element (or both) to the tax credit received by the applicant;

and that the gross annual income taken into account for the calculation of the working tax credit is £15,050 or less;

(c)

income-based jobseeker’s allowance under—

(i)

the Jobseekers Act 1995^f2; or

(ii)

the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995^f3;

(d)

guarantee credit under—

(i)

the State Pension Credit Act 2002^f4; or

(ii)

the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002^f5.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2002 c. 21.
f2: 1995 c. 18.
f3: S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)
f4: 2002 c. 16.
f5: 2002 c. 14.