Claimants are treated as being incapable of work on any day that they are-
- undergoing treatment as an in-patient in hospital or similar institution.
- pregnant and must not work in order to avoid serious risk of damage to their health or to the health of the unborn child
- excluded from work on the certificate of a Medical Officer for Environmental Health and is under observation because they are a carrier or have
been in contact with an infectious or contagious disease
- Pregnant but not entitled to a maternity allowance or to statutory maternity pay from the
first day of the sixth week before the expected week of confinement to the 14th day after actualy giving birth.
- receiving regular weekly treatment by way of haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis for chronic kidney failure
- receiving treatment by way plasmapheresis, by way of pareteral chemotherapy with cytotoxic drugs, anti-tumour agents
or immuno-suppressive drugs or by way of radiotherapy or
- recieiving regular weekly treatment by way of total parenteral for gross impairment of enteric function
- protected under the welfare to work linking rules whereby claimants can be treated
as incapable of work for 91 days if they are re-claiming benefit within their 104 week linmking rule.
