The Family Credit (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1988
These Regulations further amend the Family Credit (General) Regulations 1987. They provide for work to be treated as remunerative work only if the person is employed at the date of claim (regulation 2); for the disregard of any period in the assessment period of self-employed earners to be not less than complete weeks (regulation 3); and for the weekly earnings of such earners to be determined by dividing earnings over the assessment period by the number of weeks in that period (regulation 4). They also provide for members of the family to be treated as possessing income or capital used for ordinary clothing or footwear (regulation 5); for an increase in the student disregard for books or equipment (regulation 7); for the disregard of payments made by the Secretary of State to compensate for the loss of housing benefit, any payment in kind made by a charity, and payments to persons participating in training (regulations 8 and 9(c)); and for certain other minor amendments (regulations 6 and 9(a) and (b)).