# The Employment and Support Allowance (Exempt Work & Hardship Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2017, Regulation 5: Amendment of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008


In regulation 64D of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 (the amount of a hardship payment) for paragraph (1) substitute—
“(1) A hardship payment is either—
(a) 80% of the prescribed amount for a single claimant as set out in paragraph (1)(a) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 where—
(i) the claimant has an award of employment and support allowance which does not include entitlement to a work-related activity component under section 4(2)(b) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 as in force immediately before 3rd April 2017; and
(ii) the claimant or any other member of their family is either pregnant or seriously ill; or
(b) 60% of the prescribed amount for a single claimant as set out in paragraph (1)(a) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 in any other case.”.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/205/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-exempt-work-hardship-amounts-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-5
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.