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The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations 2017

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2017-03-13
State In force
Department King's Printer of Acts of Parliament
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Made: 13th March 2017

Laid before Parliament: 16th March 2017

Coming into force: 10th April 2017

The Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it[^f00002].

Citation and commencement

1

Amendment of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976

2

In regulation 8(1) of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976[^f00003] (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed), for “£110”, in both places where it occurs, substitute “£116”.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Penny Mordaunt — Minister of State — Department for Work and Pensions — 13th March 2017

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/409) (“the principal Regulations”).

Under section 70 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4), a person is entitled to a carer’s allowance for any day on which that person is caring for a severely disabled person provided that, among other things, the person claiming the carer’s allowance is not gainfully employed.

Regulation 8(1) of the principal Regulations prescribes that a person is only to be treated as gainfully employed on any day in a week if their earnings in the immediately preceding week have exceeded a prescribed amount. The amendment made by regulation 2 raises that amount to £116.

An impact assessment has not been published for this instrument as it has no impact on business or civil society organisations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1992 c. 4. Amendments not relevant to these Regulations have been made to section 175(1).

[^f00002]: See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1976/409. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/470, 1993/316, 1996/2744, 2001/538, 2002/2497, 2007/2618, 2010/510, 2014/904 and 2015/162.

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