Regulation 5 Reduction of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance

(1)

In respect of any part of the prescribed period for which section 63(2) of the Act does not apply but subject to paragraph (2), the reduced rate of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance payable to the member of that couple who is not the offender for the prescribed period shall be—

(a)

in any case in which the member of the couple who is not the offender satisfies the conditions set out in section 2 of the Jobseekers Act (contribution-based conditions), a rate equal to the amount calculated in accordance with section 4(1) of that Act;

(b)

in any case where the couple are a couple in hardship for the purposes of regulation 12, a rate equal to the amount calculated in accordance with regulation 17;

(c)

in any other case, a rate calculated in accordance with section 4(3A) of the Jobseekers Act^f1 save that the applicable amount shall be the amount determined by reference to paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations which would have been the applicable amount had the member of the couple who is not the offender been a single claimant.

(2)

Paragraph (1) shall only apply to the extent that the member of the joint-claim couple who is not the offender is not also subject to sanctions for the purposes of section 20A of the Jobseekers Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 4(3A) was inserted by section 59 of, and paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 7 to, the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30).