{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-joint-claims-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/schedule-2/paragraph-54",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2000/350",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-joint-claims-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/54",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Schedule 2 (housing costs) shall be amended in accordance with sub-paragraphs (2) to (8).\n(2) In paragraph 1A (previous entitlement to income support), after sub-paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(1A) Where either member of a joint-claim couple was in receipt of or treated as being in receipt of income support not more than 12 weeks before the couple becomes entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance, or, where either member is a person to whom paragraph 13(2) or (10) (linking rules) refers, not more than 26 weeks before becoming so entitled and—\n(a) the applicable amount for income support included an amount in respect of housing costs under paragraph 15 or 16 of Schedule 3 to the Income Support Regulations (loans on residential property and for repairs and improvements to the dwelling occupied as the home), and\n(b) the circumstances affecting the calculation of those housing costs remain unchanged since the last calculation of those costs,\nthe applicable amount in respect of housing costs for joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance shall be the applicable amount in respect of those costs current when entitlement to income support was last determined.”.\n(3) In paragraph 2(1) (circumstances in which a person is liable to meet housing costs), in both heads (a) and (c), after “or his partner” there shall be inserted “or, where that person is a member of a joint-claim couple, the other member of that couple,”.\n(4) In paragraph 4 (housing costs not met)—\n(a) for “the claimant” wherever those words occur, there shall be substituted “a claimant”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2)(c), for head (ii) there shall be substituted the following head—\n“(ii) who becomes, or whose partner becomes or, where that person is a member of a joint-claim couple, that couple become, entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance after 6th October 1996 and that entitlement is within 26 weeks of an earlier entitlement to income support for the claimant or his partner or, as the case may be, either member of the joint-claim couple.”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (4A)—\n(i) for “or his partner”, wherever those words occur, there shall be substituted “, his partner or, where that person is a member of a joint-claim couple, the other member of that couple”;\n(ii) in head (b), for “or in Article 5(1)(a)” there shall be substituted “, 5(1)(a) or 5A(1)(a)”;\n(d) in sub-paragraph (7)(b), after “most favourable to him” there shall be inserted “or, as the case may be, to the joint-claim couple of which he is a member”;\n(e) in sub-paragraph (8)(ii), for “or 84(1)(g)” there shall be substituted “, 84(1)(g), 86A(d) or 86B(e)”.\n(5) In paragraph 6 (existing housing costs) after sub-paragraph (3) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—\n“(4) Where either member of a joint-claim couple ceases to be in receipt of or treated as being in receipt of income support and that couple then become entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance in a case to which paragraph 1A(1A) applies, the eligible capital for the time being owing shall be recalculated on each anniversary of the date on which the housing costs were first met for whichever of the benefits concerned either member of the couple was first entitled to.”.\n(6) After paragraph 7(2A) (new housing costs) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(2B) Where either member of a joint-claim couple ceases to be in receipt of or treated as being in receipt of income support and that couple then become entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance in a case to which paragraph 1A(1A) applies, the eligible capital for the time being owing shall be recalculated on each anniversary of the date on which the housing costs were first met for whichever of the benefits concerned either member of the couple was first entitled to.”.\n(7) In paragraph 8(1)(a) (general exclusions from paragraphs 6 and 7), after “or his partner” there shall be inserted “or either member of a joint-claim couple”.\n(8) In paragraph 13 (linking rule)—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) after sub-paragraph (1)(d), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(dd) where the applicable amount of a member of a joint-claim couple was determined in accordance with paragraph 1(1) (single claimant) or (2) (lone parent) of Schedule 1 (applicable amounts) in respect of a past period, provided that the claim was made within 12 weeks of the joint-claimant becoming a member of the joint-claim couple, the joint-claim couple shall be treated as having been in receipt of a jobseeker’s allowance for the same period as that member of the joint-claim couple had been treated, for the purposes of this Schedule, as having been;”;\n(c) after sub-paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—\n“(2A) Where a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable to one member of a joint-claim couple in accordance with Article 5B of the Order (joint-claim couples: the nominated member), both members of the couple shall be treated as receiving, or having received, a jobseeker’s allowance for the purpose of this paragraph.\n(2B) Where both joint-claimants claiming a jobseeker’s allowance in respect of themselves have not been in receipt of a jobseeker’s allowance for a period before they became a joint-claim couple, sub-paragraph (1) shall have effect in respect of that couple in relation to the period which is most favourable to the couple for the purposes of this Schedule.”;\n(d) in sub-paragraph (3), after “or his partner”, in both places where those words occur, there shall be inserted “or, where a claimant is a member of a joint-claim couple, the other member of that couple”;\n(e) in sub-paragraph (3A)—\n(i) after “or his partner”, wherever those words occur, there shall be inserted “or, where a claimant is a member of a joint-claim couple, the other member of that couple”;\n(ii) in head (b), for “or Article 5(1)(a)” there shall be substituted “, 5(1)(a) or 5A(1)(a)”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 54(5) revoked (1.4.2016) by The Social Security (Housing Costs Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/44), reg. 1(1), Sch. (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 54(8)(a) revoked (11.4.2011) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/135), reg. 1(1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 54 in operation at 19.3.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 1A was inserted by regulation 5(2) of S.R. 1997 No. 435"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (4A) was inserted by regulation 13(2) of S.R. 1997 No. 541"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (3) was added by regulation 5(4) of S.R. 1997 No. 435"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (2A) was inserted by regulation 5(6) of S.R. 1997 No. 435"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (3) was substituted by regulation 7(2) of S.R. 1997 No. 165"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (3A) was inserted by regulation 13(3)(b) of S.R. 1997 No. 541"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/350/schedule/2/paragraph/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:58.038745+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}