{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Additional Conditions for Higher Pensioner and Disability Premium",
  "text": "(1) The additional conditions specified in this paragraph are that\n(a) the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, is in receipt of the disability element or the severe disability element of working tax credit as specified in regulation 20(1)(b) and (f) of the Working Tax Credit (Entitlement and Maximum Rate) Regulations 2002 or mobility supplement;\n(b) the claimant’s partner is in receipt of severe disablement allowance;\n(c) the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, is in receipt of attendance allowance , pension age disability payment or disability living allowance or is a person whose disability living allowance is payable, in whole or in part, to another in accordance with regulation 44 of the Claims and Payments Regulations (payment of disability living allowance on behalf of third party);\n(ca) the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, is in receipt of personal independence payment or is a person whose personal independence payment is payable, in whole or in part, to another in accordance with regulation 58(2) of the Universal Credit etc. Claims and Payments Regulations (payment to another person on the claimant’s behalf);\n(caa) the claimant or, as the case may be, the claimant’s partner, is in receipt of adult disability payment or is a person whose adult disability payment is payable, in whole or in part, to another in accordance with regulation 33 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (making payments);\n(cb) the claimant or, as the case may be, the claimant’s partner, is in receipt of armed forces independence payment or is a person whose armed forces independence payment is payable, in whole or in part, to another in accordance with article 24D of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011;\n(cc) the claimant or, as the case may be, the claimant's partner, is in receipt of Scottish adult disability living allowance or is a person whose Scottish adult disability living allowance is payable, in whole or in part, to another in accordance with regulation 28 (making payments) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025;\n(d) the claimant’s partner is in receipt of long-term incapacity benefit or is a person to whom section 30B(4) of the Benefits Act (long term rate of incapacity benefit payable to those who are terminally ill) applies ;\n(e) the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, has an invalid carriage or other vehicle provided to him by the Secretary of State under section 5(2)(a) of and Schedule 2 to the National Health Service Act 1977 or under section 46 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 or provided by the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland under article 30(1) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 , or receives payments by way of grant from the Secretary of State under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act of 1977 (additional provisions as to vehicles) or, in Scotland, under section 46 of the Act of 1978;\n(f) the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, is a person who is entitled to the mobility component of disability living allowance but to whom the component is not payable in accordance with regulation 42 of the Claims and Payments Regulations (cases where disability living allowance not payable);\n(fa) the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, is a person who is entitled to the mobility component of personal independence payment but to whom the component is not payable in accordance with regulation 61 of the Universal Credit etc. Claims and Payments Regulations (cases where mobility component of personal independence payment not payable);\n(fb) the claimant or, as the case may be, the claimant’s partner, is a person who is entitled to the mobility component of adult disability payment but to whom the component is not payable in accordance with regulation 34(6) of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (amount and form of adult disability payment);\n(fc) the claimant or, as the case may be, the claimant's partner, is a person who is entitled to the mobility component of Scottish adult disability living allowance but to whom the component is not payable in accordance with regulation 29(6) (amount and form of Scottish adult disability living allowance) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025;\n(g) the claimant’s partner was either–\n(i) in receipt of long term incapacity benefit under section 30A(5) of the Benefits Act immediately before attaining pensionable age and he is still alive; ...\n(ii) entitled to attendance allowance or disability living allowance but payment of that benefit was suspended in accordance with regulations under section 113(2) of the Benefits Act or otherwise abated as a consequence of the partner becoming a patient within the meaning of regulation 85(4) (special cases); ...\n(iii) entitled to personal independence payment but no amount is payable in accordance with regulations made under section 86(1) (hospital in-patients) of the 2012 Act ;...\n(iv) entitled to adult disability payment but no amount is payable in accordance with regulation 28 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Adult Disability Payment) of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022 ...\n(v) entitled to pension age disability payment but no amount is payable in accordance with regulation 20 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to pension age disability payment) of the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024;or\n(vi) entitled to Scottish adult disability living allowance but no amount is payable in accordance with regulation 23 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Scottish adult disability living allowance) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025,\nand in any of the cases described in sub-paragraphs (i) to (vi) , the higher pensioner premium or disability premium had been applicable to the claimant or his partner;\n(h) the claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, is certified as severely sight impaired or blind by a consultant ophthalmologist.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(h), a person who has ceased to be certified as severely sight impaired or blind on regaining his eyesight shall nevertheless be treated as severely sight impaired or blind, as the case may be, and as satisfying the additional condition set out in that sub-paragraph for a period of 28 weeks following the date on which he ceased to be so certified.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(a) substituted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(9) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/455), Sch. 2 para. 20(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(c) inserted (21.10.2024) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/919), arts. 1(1), 6(7)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(ca) inserted (8.4.2013) by The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/388), reg. 2, Sch. para. 16(7)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(caa) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 5(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(cb) inserted (8.4.2013) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme (Consequential Provisions: Subordinate Legislation) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/591), art. 2(2), Sch. para. 10(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(cc) inserted (21.3.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 7(7)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Section 30B was inserted by the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c.18) section 2(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "1977 c.49."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "1978 c.29."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(fa) inserted (8.4.2013) by The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/388), reg. 2, Sch. para. 16(7)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(fb) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 5(7)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(fc) inserted (21.3.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 7(7)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Section 30A was inserted by the Social Security (Incapacity for Work)and) Act 1994 section 1(1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g)(i) omitted (8.4.2013) by virtue of The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/388), reg. 2, Sch. para. 16(7)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g)(ii) substituted (7.10.1996) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1516), reg. 1(1), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g)(iii) and word inserted (8.4.2013) by The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/388), reg. 2, Sch. para. 16(7)(b)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g)(ii) omitted (21.3.2022) by virtue of The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 5(7)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g)(iii) omitted (21.10.2024) by virtue of The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/919), arts. 1(1), 6(7)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g)(iv) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 5(7)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F21",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g) omitted (21.3.2025) by virtue of The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 7(7)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F22",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g)(v) inserted (21.10.2024) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/919), arts. 1(1), 6(7)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F23",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g)(vi) and word inserted (21.3.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 7(7)(b)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F24",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g) substituted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 5(7)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F25",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(g) substituted (21.3.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/227), arts. 1(1), 7(7)(b)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F26",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(1)(h) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 3(3)(a)(i)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F27",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 14(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Universal Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments (No.2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2888), regs. 1(1), 3(3)(a)(i)(bb)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/schedule/1/paragraph/14",
    "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."
}