{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/regulation-79.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/79",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Weekly amounts of contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance",
  "text": "(1) In the case of a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance, the age-related amount applicable to a claimant for the purposes of section 4(1)(a) shall be—\n(a) in the case of a person who has not attained the age of 25, £75.65 per week.\n(c) in the case of a person who has attained the age of 25, £95.55 per week.\n(2) Where the amount of any contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance would, but for this paragraph, include a fraction of one penny, that fraction shall be treated as one penny.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 79(1)(a) substituted for reg. 79(1)(a)(b) (29.10.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2536), regs. 1(1), 6(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in Reg. 79(1)(a) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3)(i) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/148), arts. 1(3)(i), 25(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sum in Reg. 79(1)(c) substituted (coming into force in accordance with arts. 1(3)(i)(5), 7 of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/148), arts. 1(3)(i), 25(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/regulation/79",
    "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."
}