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Housing Benefit Guidance Manual: Amendment 17 December 2008

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Chapter BP2 - Assessment of income

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P2.00 - About this chapter
P2.10 - The meaning of 'income'
P2.20 - Disregards
- P2.30 - Effect on income of changes in tax, NI contributions, etc
P2.50 - Calculating income on a weekly basis
- P2.52 - Variable work patterns
P2.60 - Employed earners
- P2.60 - Definition of employed earner
- P2.70 - Definition of earnings
  - P2.71 - Payments excluded from the definition of earnings
- P2.80 - Special types of earnings
- P2.120 - Due date of payment
- P2.130 - Disregarded earnings
  - P2.131 - Childcare disregard
  - P2.132 - Additional earnings disregard (formerly known as 30 hour earnings disregard)
    - P2.138 - 50 plus element of WTC
- P2.150 - Main earnings disregards
- P2.160 - Childcare charges
- P2.190 - Earnings paid on termination of work
  - P2.192 - Claimant absent from work before date of claim
  - P2.193 - Claimant was in part-time employment before date of claim
- P2.210 - Claimant receives Pension Credit (guarantee credit)
- P2.211 - Parental contributions to students
- P2.212 - Payment made in currency other than sterling
- P2.220 - Assessment of income from earnings
  - P2.225 - Claimant has been in employment less than four weeks/two months
- P2.240 - Ancillary school workers
  - P2.242 - Impact on HB and CTB
    - P2.246 - Option 1: Using past earnings
    - P2.247 - Option 2: Using future earnings
- P2.248 - Verification of earnings
- P2.260 - Calculation of net earnings
- P2.280 - Earnings of children and young people
P2.310 - Self-employed earners
- P2.310 - Earnings of self-employed earners
- P2.330 - Average weekly profit of self-employed earners
- P2.340 - Incentive schemes
  - P2.340 - Single Regeneration Budget payments
  - P2.343 - The Prince’s Trust
- P2.350 - Deductions from gross profit
  - P2.352 - When deductions should not be made
- P2.360 - Depreciation
- P2.370 - Converting chargeable income to net profit
- P2.390 - Drawings
- P2.410 - Deduction of tax and contributions for self-employed earners
- P2.440 - Earnings payable abroad or in a foreign currency
- P2.450 - Starting up in business
- P2.460 - Particular forms of self-employment
P2.490 - Other income
- P2.500 - Types of income to be taken fully into account
- P2.510 - Calculation of income other than earnings
- P2.530 - Items to be disregarded
- P2.570 - Treatment of special types of income
P2.670 - Notional income
- P2.680 - Possible entitlement to other retirement income/deferred income from occupational pension schemes
- P2.682 - Trivial commutation of an occupational pension
- P2.684 - Occupational/personal pensions: money purchase benefits and annuities
- P2.720 - Deferred Retirement Pension
P2.750 - Deprivation of income
P2.790 - Uprated changes in social security benefits
P2.840 - Payments to, or in respect of, a third party
P2.860 - Income of children and young persons
P2.890 - Trust Funds
P2.920 - Loans and overdrafts
Annex A - Examples of calculating self-employed earnings
Annex B - Other Income (Does not apply to pensioners)
Annex C - New Deal - Participants and assistance available (Does not apply to Pensioners)
Annex D - Notional deductions for Income Tax
Annex E - Tax credits - general information
Annex F - Meaning of terms used in childcare charges
Annex G - Pension Credit case studies
Annex H - Registered or approved childcare providers

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