Regulation 2 Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987

The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987^f1 are amended as follows.

In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), after the definition of “enactment”^f2 insert-

• ““first year of training” means a period of one year beginning with a person’s first day of training.”

For regulation 29(2C) (calculation of earnings derived from employed earner’s employment and income other than earnings)^f3 substitute—

“(2C)

(a)

This paragraph applies where earnings are derived by a claimant as a member of a reserve force prescribed in Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Contributions Regulations—

(i)

in respect of a period of annual continuous training for a maximum of 15 days in any calendar year; or

(ii)

in respect of training in the claimant’s first year of training as a member of a reserve force for a maximum of 43 days in that year.

(b)

Earnings, whether paid to the claimant alone or together with other earnings derived from the same source, are to be taken into account—

(i)

in the case of a period of training which lasts for the number of days listed in column 1 of the table in sub-paragraph (c), over a period of time which is equal to the number of days set out in the corresponding row in column 2 of that table; or

(ii)

in any other case, over a period of time which is equal to the number of days of the training period.

(c)

This is the table referred to in sub-paragraph (b)(i)—

Column 1 Period of training in days	Column 2 Period of time over which earnings are to be taken into account in days
8 to 10	7
15 to 17	14
22 to 24	21
29 to 31	28
36 to 38	35
43	42

”

In Schedule 8 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings)^f4—