# The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996, Regulation 143: Conditions for hardship payments

Extent: N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) A jobseeker’s allowance shall not be payable in accordance with regulation 141 (circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person in hardship) or, as the case may be, 142 (further circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person in hardship), except where the claimant has—
(a) furnished on a form approved for the purpose by the Department or in such other form as it may in any particular case approve a statement of the circumstances he relies upon to establish entitlement under regulation 141 or, as the case may be, regulation 142, and
(b) signed the statement.
(2) The completed and signed form shall be delivered by the claimant to such office as the Department may specify.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/198/regulation/143 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/jobseekers-allowance-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-143
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