{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-8.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/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule, once a premium is applicable to a claimant under this Part, a person shall be treated as being in receipt of any benefit—\n(a) in the case of a benefit to which the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979 applies, for any period during which, apart from the provisions of those Regulations, he would be in receipt of that benefit; ...\n(b) for any period spent by a claimant in undertaking a course of training or instruction provided or approved by the Secretary of State ... under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973, or by Skills Development Scotland, Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise under section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 or for any period during which he is in receipt of a training allowance and\n(c) in the case of carer support payment, for any period during which, apart from regulation 16 of the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023, he would be in receipt of that benefit.\n(2) For the purposes of the carer premium under paragraph 17, a person shall be treated as being in receipt of carer’s allowance by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(a) or carer support payment by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)(c) only if and for so long as the person in respect of whose care the allowance or payment has been claimed remains in receipt of attendance allowance , pension age disability payment, the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 72(3) of the Benefits Act , the care component of child disability payment at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with regulation 11(5) of the DACYP Regulations , the care component of Scottish adult disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate in accordance with regulation 6(4) of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025 , armed forces independence payment , the daily living component of personal independence payment at the standard or enhanced rate prescribed in accordance with section 78(3) of the 2012 Act , or the daily living component of adult disability payment at the standard or enhanced rate prescribed in accordance with regulation 5 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/597."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 8(1)(a) omitted (19.11.2023) by virtue of The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 8(9)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 8(1)(b) substituted (28.10.1996) by The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2538), regs. 1, 2(11)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(1)(b) omitted (14.4.2008) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/698), regs. 1(1), 4(14)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(1)(b) inserted (6.4.2009) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/583), regs. 1(2), 4(3)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 8(1)(b) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 8(9)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 8(1)(c) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 8(9)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 Pts. 3-4B substituted (1.4.2003) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/511), regs. 1, 3(4)(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(2) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 8(9)(a)(iv)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(2) inserted (19.11.2023) by The Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1218), arts. 1(2), 8(9)(a)(iv)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(2) 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)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(2) substituted (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)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(2) inserted (26.7.2021) by The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Disability Assistance for Children and Young People) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/786), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(2) 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)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(2) 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)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 8(2): comma substituted for word (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)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 8(2) 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)(a)(ii)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}