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One-parent family payment— disregard of earnings.
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31.—The Principal Act is hereby amended by:
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(a) the substitution for section 158(3) (as substituted by section 17 of the Act of 1996) of the following subsection:
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“(3) Subject to this Act, a one-parent family payment shall not be payable to a qualified parent whose gross weekly earnings (including wages and profit from any form of self-employment) exceed £230.76.”,
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(b) the substitution of paragraph (j) of Rule 1(4) of Part II of the Third Schedule (as inserted by section 26(1)(c) of the Act of 1997) for the following paragraph:
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“(j) in the case of a qualified parent, within the meaning of section 157, subject to paragraph (7) any moneys received by way of earnings (including wages and profit from any form of self-employment),”,
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and
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(c) the insertion after Rule 1(6) of Part II of the Third Schedule of the following paragraph:
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“(7) (a) in the case of a qualified parent, within the meaning of section 157, who has earnings (including wages and profit from any form of self-employment), the gross weekly earnings, calculated in accordance with subparagraph (b), shall be deemed to constitute the weekly means of that parent from earnings for the purposes of Chapter 9 of Part III.
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(b) in calculating the gross weekly earnings of a qualified parent for the purposes of subparagraph (a), an amount of £115.38 together with half the gross weekly earnings in excess of that amount shall be disregarded.”.
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