Regulation 92A Absence where His Majesty’s Government provides public information to advise British nationals to leave a country or territory or arranges 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 Northern Ireland if—
the claimant was present in a country or territory outside Northern Ireland immediately before His Majesty’s Government—
provided public information to advise British nationals to leave that country or territory, or
arranged the evacuation of British nationals from that country or territory;
any of regulations 88 to 92 applied to the person when the public information was issued or the evacuation began;
the Department is satisfied that it would be unreasonable to expect the claimant to return, or to have returned, to Northern Ireland; and
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.