# The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976, Regulation 8: Circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed


(1) For the purposes of section 70(1)(b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (condition of a person being entitled to a carer’s allowance for any day that he is not gainfully employed) a person shall not be treated as gainfully employed on any day in a week unless his earnings in the immediately preceding week have exceeded £204 and, subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, shall be treated as gainfully employed on every day in a week if his earnings in the immediately preceding week have exceeded £204.
(2) There shall be disregarded for the purposes of paragraph (1) above a person's earnings—
(a) for any week which under paragraph (2) of regulation 4 of these regulations is treated as a week in which that person satisfies the requirements of paragraph (1) of that regulation; ...
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(3) The Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations 1974, as amended, except regulations 5 to 7 thereof, shall apply in relation to invalid care allowance as they apply in relation to invalidity pension.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/409/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-invalid-care-allowance-regulations-1976/regulation-8
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