Explanatory note

These Regulations amend regulation 63A of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1801) which concerns review of jobseeker’s allowance.

The amendments make provision in respect of those treated as having been awarded a jobseeker’s allowance in accordance with regulation 7 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1996 whereby jobseeker’s allowance replaces income support and unemployment benefit. They provide for the date on which a determination on a review is to have effect in relation to a person’s claim to jobseeker’s allowance where reductions in capital outstanding on a loan have occured generally to be the first and subsequent anniversaries of the date on which housing costs were first met in relation to that person’s claim to income support.

These Regulations do not impose any costs on business.