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Part IX HARDSHIP

  1. 140Meaning of “person in hardship"
  2. 140APeriod when a person is not a person in hardship
  3. 141Circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person in hardship
  4. 142Further circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person in hardship
  5. 143Conditions for hardship payments
  6. 144Provision of information
  7. 145Applicable amount in hardship cases
  8. 146Payments made on account of suspended benefit

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

1995 c.18.

F2

Section 35(1) is an interpretation provision: it is cited because it contains powers exercised in these Regulations in the definitions of “employment", “jobseeker's period", “pensionable age", “pensionable payments", “training" and “work" and because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed" and “regulations".

F3

1992 c.5; section 191 is an interpretation provision and it is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed".

F4

1992 c.4; sections 171D and 171G(2) were inserted by the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c.18), section 6(1) and have effect for the purposes of the Jobseekers Act 1995 by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to that Act. Section 171G(2) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning ascribed to the word “prescribed".

F5

See section 173(5)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5).