Regulation 14 Further circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a couple in hardship
This regulation applies to a couple in hardship falling within regulation 12(2) and is subject to the provisions of regulations 15 and 16.
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 them or section 63(3) of the Act reduces the amount of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance payable to them but the allowance—
shall not be payable under this paragraph in respect of the first 14 days of the prescribed period; and
shall be payable thereafter only if and for so long as the conditions of entitlement to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance are satisfied or where 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).