Commentary on Sections Glossary Part 3: Employment income: earnings and benefits etc. treated as earnings Section 64: Relationship between earnings and benefits code
263.This section provides a rule for the case where two amounts would otherwise be treated as earnings in respect of the same benefit, one under section 62 (earnings) of this Act and the other under the benefits code.
264.Subsections (1) and (2)  derive from Inland Revenue practice, as set out in SE 21640. See Change 15 in Annex 1.
265.Subsections (3) to (5)  deal with the exceptions to the rule in subsections (1) and (2), giving the provisions which apply within the relevant chapters of the benefits code.