I have client on incapacity benefit (not income support) and industrial injuries benefit, client is on no means tested benefits.
Client wants to rent out his own house at £70 per week whilst he goes into a more suitable property. Client wants to know if this will affect his incapacity benefit and industrial injuries benefit ? Unable to find this information anywhere ?

IIDB is not a means tested benefit so it won't affect that.

Neither is incapacity benefit. The only form of income that directly affects incapacity benefit is private pensions (leaving aside the issue of any non-permitted work). IIDB can be claimed by soemone in full-time high-paid work with a large fortune!

I don't know the answer to this question it's just something that popped into my head as I read the initial post-

Would he then be classed as a landlord? And could that impact on his assessment of being unable to work?

had not thought of that aspect, something to think about
thanks
Sarah

Reg 16(1) of the Incapacity for Work Regs is in the following terms:

“A person shall be treated as capable of work on each day of any week during which he does work”.

A landlord letting out a property in the above scenario where the rent probably is paid directly into his bank account at monthly intervals (as opposed to a landlord with a portfolio of properties who is clearly running a business) could hardly be said to be doing work.

Even if those other activities involved in being a landlord such as creating the tenancy agreement, arranging a contractor on rare occasions to carry out minor repairs, could be classed as doing work (which I doubt) then they would, in my view, be de minimis and excluded from account.