Chapter 20: Income: under pension age
This chapter covers:
1. Whose income counts (
here)
2. What counts as income (
here)
5. Notional income (
here)
6. Working out weekly income (
here)
This chapter explains the rules for working out your weekly income for income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance and income-related employment and support allowance. It also covers working-age housing benefit (HB) rules if you and your partner are under pension age. For pension credit and pension-age HB rules if you and your partner are over pension age, see
Chapter 21. If you are in a couple and one of you is over pension age but not the other, see
here for whether the working-age or pension-age HB rules apply. For universal credit, see
Chapter 7; for tax credits, see
Chapter 62; for carer’s allowance, see
Chapter 26; and for health benefits, see
Chapter 31.