Regulation 15 Suspension of a reduced benefit decision when a modified applicable amount is payable (income-based jobseeker’s allowance)

Where a reduced benefit decision is given or is in operation at a time when an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to, or in respect of, the parent concerned but her applicable amount falls to be calculated under the provisions mentioned in paragraph (4), that reduced benefit decision shall be suspended for so long as the applicable amount falls to be calculated under those provisions, or 52 weeks, whichever is the shorter.

Where a reduced benefit decision is given or is in operation at a time when an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to, or in respect of, the parent concerned but her applicable amount includes a residential allowance under regulation 83(c) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (persons in residential care or nursing homes)^f1, that reduced benefit decision shall be suspended for so long as the applicable amount includes such a residential allowance, or 52 weeks, whichever is the shorter.

Where a case falls within paragraph (1) or (2) and a reduced benefit decision has been suspended for 52 weeks, it shall cease to be in force.

The provisions of paragraph (1) shall apply where the applicable amount in relation to the parent concerned falls to be calculated under—