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Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1999

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 37 Cited in Amendments 20 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1999/2556
Year1999
  • These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (
    • (1) The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (2) At the end of regulation 5 Subject to paragraph (9) , a person who has not been treated as engaged in remunerative work in accordance with regulation 6(2) as a consequence of his commencing work shall be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period specified in paragraph (10) where he ceased to be engaged in that work within the period of five weeks beginning on the date on which he commenced it.Paragraph (8) shall not apply in the case of a person who is temporarily absent from the work referred to in regulation 6(2) (a) .A person to whom paragraph (8) applies shall be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period commencing on the day after the day on which he was last engaged in the work referred to in regulation 6(2) (a) and ending on the day on which the length of that period corresponds with the length of the period in respect of which he had not been treated as engaged in remunerative work in accordance with regulation 6(2) .(3) Regulation 6 (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) shall be renumbered paragraph (1) of regulation 6 and after the renumbered paragraph (1) there shall be added the following paragraphs—
    • (2) A lone parent shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period specified in paragraph (3) in so far as—
    • (a) he is engaged in work which—(i) is remunerative work; and(ii) he is expected to be engaged in for a period of no less than five weeks; and
    • (b) he had been, for a continuous period of 26 weeks ending on the day before the day on which he commenced the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) —(i) entitled to and in receipt of income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance; and(ii) a lone parent.
    • (3) A person referred to in paragraph (2) shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period of 14 days commencing with the day on which he was first engaged in the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph.
    is remunerative work; andhe is expected to be engaged in for a period of no less than five weeks; andentitled to and in receipt of income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance; anda lone parent.A person referred to in paragraph (2) shall not be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period of 14 days commencing with the day on which he was first engaged in the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph.(4) In the definition of “part-time employment" in both regulation 29(4D) (a) (calculation of earnings derived from employed earner’s employment) and regulation 35(3) (c) (earnings of employed earners) (5) In regulation 36(2) (calculation of net earnings of employed earners) , after “13" there shall be inserted “ , 15A or 15B ”.(6) In regulation 38(2) (calculation of net profit of self-employed earners) , after “13" there shall be inserted “ or 15B ”.in paragraph 8, for the words “regulation 6(a) " there shall be substituted the words “ regulation 6(1) (a) ”;in paragraph 9, for the words “regulation 6(g) " there shall be substituted the words “ regulation 6(1) (g) ”.(8) After sub-paragraph (6) in paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 to whom regulation 6(2) (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies; andwhose applicable amount immediately before he was engaged in the work referred to in regulation 6(2) (a) , included a premium applicable under paragraph 11(a) ,(9) After paragraph 15A in Schedule 8 In the case of a person to whom regulation 6(2) (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies, any earnings which derive from the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph but only to the extent that they relate to work performed during the period specified in regulation 6(3) .(10) At the end of Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) there shall be added the following paragraph—
    • (70) In the case of a person to whom regulation 6(2) (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies, any working families tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit to which section 128 or as the case may be 129 of the Contributions and Benefits Act refers which is paid to that person.
    In the case of a person to whom regulation 6(2) (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies, any working families tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit to which section 128 or as the case may be 129 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (11) At the end of Schedule 10 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of capital) there shall be added the following paragraph—
    • (57) In the case of a person to whom regulation 6(2) (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies, the amount of any—
    • (a) back to work bonus payable to that lone parent by way of a jobseeker’s allowance or income support in accordance with section 26 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 or a corresponding payment under article 28 of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 ; or
    back to work bonus payable to that lone parent by way of a jobseeker’s allowance or income support in accordance with section 26 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 child maintenance bonus payable to that lone parent by way of a jobseeker’s allowance or income support in accordance with section 10 of the Child Support Act 1995
  • At the end of regulation 52 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996
    • Subject to paragraph (5) , a person who has not been treated as engaged in remunerative work in accordance with regulation 6(2) of the Income Support Regulations (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) as a consequence of his commencing work shall be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period specified in paragraph (6) where he ceased to be engaged in that work within the period of five weeks beginning on the date on which he commenced it.Paragraph (4) shall not apply in the case of a person who is temporarily absent from the work referred to in regulation 6(2) (a) of the Income Support Regulations.A person to whom paragraph (4) applies shall be treated as engaged in remunerative work for the period commencing on the day after the day on which he was last engaged in the work referred to in regulation 6(2) (a) of the

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