We will take most of your income into account when we calculate your benefit. Some types of income can be ignored, we will do this automatically.

If you are working we will take into account your net weekly earnings. Net weekly earnings is your gross earnings less tax and National Insurance. We will also take off half of any contribution you make to a pension scheme.

If you have savings and you are under 60, we will ignore the first £6000. If you have savings over £6000 we will take into account £1.00 of income for every £250.00 of savings. For example, if you have savings of £7000 we will add £4.00 to your weekly income.