Rental income and carer's allowance

antrobus

weanie wrote: »

... but really what I needed to know precisely is "Do they regard investment income as earnings?"
We have looked at the onlie forma nd it requests details of owned property and we wondered why....

There is an old discussion here on Rightsnet -
http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forum-archive/index2336.html - which seems to suggest that the rental income will not indeed count as earnings for the purposes of CA.

weanie

antrobus wrote: »

There is an old discussion here on Rightsnet -
http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forum-archive/index2336.html - which seems to suggest that the rental income will not indeed count as earnings for the purposes of CA.

Thank you very much for digging this out. I have been able to find nothing online regarding my query!!

sleepless_saver

weanie wrote: »

what I needed to know precisely is "Do they regard investment income as earnings?"
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Just adding the source I used in case you want to check it out. This is the DWP decision makers guide - chapter 15, paras 15743 to 15746 which deal with whether rental income is considered as being a business or an investment; and para 15275 on the treatment of investments.