The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Amendment Regulations 1995
Regulation 8(1) of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976 provides that a person is not to be treated as gainfully employed on any day in a week unless his earnings in the immediately preceding week have exceeded a specified amount. Paragraph (2)(b) of that regulation provides that there is to be disregarded for the purposes of paragraph (1) a person’s earnings for any week throughout which he is absent from his employment with the authority of his employer.