# The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Regulations 2001, Regulation 7: Further circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person who is a person in hardship


(1) This regulation applies to a person in hardship within the meaning of regulation 5(2) and is subject to the provisions of regulations 8 and 9.
(2) An income-based jobseeker’s allowance shall be payable to a person in hardship even though section 7(2) of the Act prevents payment of a jobseeker’s allowance to the offender or section 9 of the Act prevents payment of a jobseeker’s allowance to an offender’s family member but the allowance shall not be payable under this paragraph—
(a) where the offender is the claimant, in respect of the first 14 days of the disqualification period;
(b) where the offender’s family member is the claimant, in respect of the first 14 days of the relevant period,
and shall be payable thereafter only if and so long as the claimant satisfies the conditions for entitlement to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2001/0110388712/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-loss-of-benefit-regulations-2001/regulation-7
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