These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 6th April 2001.
Specified date: 6 April 2001: see above.
In paragraph (1) of regulation 8 of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed), for the sum “£50”, in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the words “an amount equal to the lower earnings limit in force by virtue of regulations under section 5 of the Contributions and Benefits Act on the last day of that week”.
Specified date: 6 April 2001: see reg 1.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
P Hollis
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
23rd February 2001
These Regulations amend the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976.
Under section 70 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, a person is entitled to an invalid care allowance for any day on which he is engaged in caring for a severely disabled person if, among other things, he is not gainfully employed.
Regulation 8(1) of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 provides that a person is not to be treated as gainfully employed on any day in a week unless, and is to be treated as gainfully employed on every day in a week if, his earnings in the immediately preceding week have exceeded a specified sum.
These Regulations amend regulation 8(1) to replace that specified sum with an amount to be ascertained by reference to the lower earnings limit. Section 5 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 provides for the lower earnings limit for each tax year to be specified in regulations.
These Regulations do not impose any costs on business.
