Hi All,
A bit of advice required please…..
For the purposes of the child care disregard certain people are treated as in remunerative work even when they are not. A person on maternity, paternity or adoption leave is treated as in remunerative work if they:-
• Were in remunerative work in the week before the leave started,
• Are incurring relevant child care charges; and
• Are eligible to statutory maternity, paternity or adoption pay, maternity allowance or income support because of paternity leave
However this person is not entitled to the additional earnings disregard because they do not meet the criteria.
We are a Northgate site so in order for the child care disregard to still apply we are having to insert the customer on 16hrs whether on SSP or not- so that the computer thinks the person is in remunerative work.
The only problem with this is that it is then awarding the additional earnings disregard when the person is not entitled to it.
Can anyone shed any light?
Thanks
Stuart