Regulation 23 Calculation of income other than earningsI1
England, Wales and Scotland
For the purposes of regulation 14 (average weekly income other than earnings), the income of a claimant which does not consist of earnings to be taken into account shall, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), be his gross income and any capital treated as income under F1regulation 24 (capital treated as income).
There shall be disregarded from the calculation of a claimant’s gross income under paragraph (1) any sum, where applicable, specified in Schedule 3.
Where the payment of any benefit under the benefit Acts is subject to any deduction by way of recovery the amount to be taken into account under paragraph (1) shall be the gross amount payable.
For the avoidance of doubt there shall be included as income to be taken into account under paragraph (1) any payment to which regulation 18(2) applies (payments not earnings).
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in reg. 23(1) substituted (1.4.1989) by The Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/361), regs. 1(1)(b), 6