# The Social Security (Breach of Community Order) Regulations 2001, Regulation 13: Circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable where a joint-claim couple is a couple in hardship


(1) This regulation applies where a joint-claim couple is a couple in hardship within the meaning of regulation 12(1) and is subject to the provisions of regulations 15 and 16.
(2) A joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance shall be payable to a couple in hardship even though section 63(2) of the Act prevents payment of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance to the couple or section 63(3) of the Act reduces the amount of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance payable to the couple but the allowance shall be payable only if and for so long as—
(a) the joint-claim couple satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance; or
(b) one member satisfies those conditions and the other member comes within any paragraph in Schedule A1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (categories of members not required to satisfy conditions in section 1(2B)(b) of the Jobseekers Act).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110290666/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-breach-of-community-order-regulations-2001/regulation-13
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