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Regulation 8 Further circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to an offender who is a person in hardship

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(1)

This regulation applies to a person in hardship within the meaning of regulation 6(2) and is subject to the provisions of regulations 9 and 10.

(2)

An income-based jobseeker’s allowance shall be payable to a person in hardship even though section 62(2) of the Act prevents payment of a jobseeker’s allowance to him but the allowance—

(a)

shall not be payable under this paragraph in respect of the first 14 days of the prescribed period; and

(b)

shall be payable thereafter only if and for so long as he satisfies the conditions for entitlement to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance.