# The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Homeless Claimants) Amendment Regulations 2014, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the provisions in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207) which require claimants to be treated as available for employment when suffering a domestic emergency.
In particular, regulation 1(3) inserts paragraph (2ZC) into regulation 14 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations to provide that claimants who have recently become homeless are to be treated as available for employment only where they take reasonable steps to find living accommodation. This regulation also inserts paragraph (2ZD) into regulation 14 to provide that claimants to whom paragraph (2ZC) applies may be treated as available for employment under paragraph (2)(b) for periods of longer than one week and on more than four such occasions in any period of 12 months.
An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on businesses and civil society organisations. The instrument has no impact on the public sector.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1623/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-homeless-claimants-amendment-regulations-2014/note
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