nevip
welfare rights adviser, sefton metropolitan borough council, liverpool.
Member since 22nd Jan 2004
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RE: Incapacity Benefit and Private rental income
Thu 15-Apr-10 01:19 PM |
Reg 16(1) of the Incapacity for Work Regs is in the following terms:
“A person shall be treated as capable of work on each day of any week during which he does work”.
A landlord letting out a property in the above scenario where the rent probably is paid directly into his bank account at monthly intervals (as opposed to a landlord with a portfolio of properties who is clearly running a business) could hardly be said to be doing work.
Even if those other activities involved in being a landlord such as creating the tenancy agreement, arranging a contractor on rare occasions to carry out minor repairs, could be classed as doing work (which I doubt) then they would, in my view, be de minimis and excluded from account.
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