Regulation 13 Claimants subject to disqualification or reduction in benefit

Regulation 14 of the Transitional Provisions Regulations (claimants subject to disqualification or reduction in benefit) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

After paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(2A)

In the case of a person who on the relevant day had an award of income support and whose weekly applicable amount was reduced after the relevant day in accordance with regulation 21A of the Income Support Regulations—

(a)

any award of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance shall be reduced by a sum equal to an amount by which the weekly applicable amount would have been reduced; and

(b)

any denial of a jobseeker’s allowance in accordance with section 19 of the Act in respect of the period during which the weekly applicable amount would have been reduced shall be disregarded.”.

In paragraph (3) after the words “paragraph (2)” there shall be inserted the words “or (2A)”.

In sub-paragraph (3)(b) at the end there shall be added the words “in the claimant’s favour”.

After paragraph (3) the following paragraph shall be inserted—

“(3A)

In the case of a person to whom a jobseeker’s allowance is not payable in accordance with section 19 or paragraph (1) for a period ending before or during the benefit week which includes 6th April 1997—

(a)

where the period during which a jobseeker’s allowance was not payable ends during a benefit week, any award of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance under section 20(4) or paragraph (2) shall end on the last day of the previous benefit week;

(b)

where the period during which a jobseeker’s allowance was not payable ends on the last day of a benefit week, any award of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance under section 20(4) or paragraph (2) shall end on that day.”.