{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-146G",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-146G.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/146G",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "146G",
  "heading": "Applicable amount in hardship cases for joint-claim couples",
  "text": "(1) The weekly applicable amount of the joint-claim couple to whom a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable in accordance with this Part of these Regulations shall be reduced by a sum equivalent to—\n(a) 20% of the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 1 in a case where a member of a joint-claim couple is—\n(i) either pregnant or seriously ill, or\n(ii) a member of a polygamous marriage and one of the members of that marriage is pregnant or seriously ill, or\n(b) 40% of the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 1 in all other cases.\n(2) A reduction under paragraph (1) shall, if it is not a multiple of 5p, be rounded to the nearest such multiple or, if it is a multiple of 2.5p but not of 5p, to the next lower multiple of 5p.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 9A inserted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 146G(1) substituted (13.4.2010) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/641), regs. 1(4)(b), 4(11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. 146E-146H modified (22.11.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1222), regs. 1(2), 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reg. 146G(1): sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(k) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(k), 24(1)(8), Sch. 12"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/regulation/146G",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:53:28.715055+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."
}