Having established the assessment period the decision maker
should consider whether to disregard any weeks to calculate normal
weekly earnings from the self-employment, noting that
1) only whole weeks (DMG32053) during which
no activities have been carried out for the purpose of the
business may be disregarded
2) if the claimant works in partnership or has employees, it
is unlikely that there would be any period to disregard even though
the claimant may personally be unable to work for a time due to
illness or other reasons
3) where the person works alone there may be periods when no
trading was done, but if time was spent on some other activity
connected with the business for example
the decision maker should not disregard that period.
