Regulation 155A Absence where His Majesty’s Government provides public information to advise British nationals to leave a country or territory or arranges the evacuation of British nationals from that country or territoryF1

A claimant is to continue to be entitled to an employment and support allowance during the first 26 weeks of a temporary absence from Great Britain if—

(a)

the claimant was present in a country or territory outside Great Britain immediately before His Majesty’s Government—

(i)

provided public information to advise British nationals to leave that country or territory, or

(ii)

arranged the evacuation of British nationals from that country or territory;

(b)

any of regulations 152 to 155 applied to the person when the public information was issued or the evacuation began;

(c)

the Secretary of State is satisfied that it would be unreasonable to expect the claimant to return, or have returned, to Great Britain; and

(d)

the claimant did not enter that country or territory when His Majesty’s Government’s public information was to advise British nationals to leave that country or territory.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 155A inserted (18.7.2025) by The Social Security (Habitual Residence, Past Presence and Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/884), regs. 1(1), 9(3)

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1: Section 3(3) is cited for the power to prescribe a payment under paragraph (b) of the definition of “pension payment”.
F2: Section 22 is cited insofar as it relates to paragraphs 1 to 3, 6, 7, 8(1), 9 and 10 of Schedule 2.
F3: Section 24(1) is cited for the definition of “employment” and “employed”, “period of limited capability for work”, “prescribed”, “regulations” and “week”.
F4: Paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 1 is cited for the definition of “couple”, “education” and “remunerative work”.
F5: 2007 c. 5.
F6: 1992 c. 5.
F7: 1998 c. 14.