This chapter explains the rules for working out your weekly income for income-related employment and support allowance (ESA) and working-age housing benefit (HB). The rules on how earnings are calculated also apply to your (but not your partner’s) earnings for contributory ESA and new-style jobseeker’s allowance. For pension credit and pension-age HB rules if you and your partner are over pension age, see Chapter 17. 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 (UC), see Chapter 7.