{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/207",
  "legislation_title": "The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "General exclusions from Paragraph 7",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 7 shall not apply where–\n(a) the claimant or his partner or either member of a joint-claim couple has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit;\n(b) the housing costs are payments–\n(i) under a co-ownership agreement;\n(ii) under or relating to a tenancy or licence of a Crown tenant; or\n(iii) where the dwelling occupied as the home is a tent, in respect of the tent and the site on which it stands.\n(2) In a case falling within sub-paragraph (1), the housing costs to be met are–\n(a) where head (a) of sub-paragraph (1) applies, an amount–\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ii) equal to the payments which qualify under paragraph 16;\n(b) where head (b) of sub-paragraph (1) applies, an amount equal to the payments which qualify under paragraph 16(1)(d) to (f).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(1) substituted (1.4.2016) by The Social Security (Housing Costs Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1647), regs. 1, 3(2)(d)(i) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(1)(a) inserted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 54(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (Equalisation of State Pension Age) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1488), regs. 1, 14(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(2)(a)(i) omitted (with effect in accordance with regs. 19-21 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 3(f)(ix)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 8 heading substituted (1.4.2016) by The Social Security (Housing Costs Amendments) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1647), regs. 1, 3(2)(d)(ii) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 applied (with modifications) (5.1.2009) by The Social Security (Housing Costs Special Arrangements) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3195), regs. 1(3), 11(e)(i) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8(1) applied (with modifications) (5.1.2009) by The Social Security (Housing Costs Special Arrangements) (Amendment and Modification) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3195), regs. 1(3), 11(e)(ii) (with reg. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/207/schedule/2/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."
}