{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-bereavement-benefits-regulations-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-bereavement-benefits-regulations-2000/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2239",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Amendment (Bereavement Benefits) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-amendment-bereavement-benefits-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.\n(2) In Schedule 1 (applicable amounts)—\n(a) in paragraph 5 , for the words “paragraphs 10\" there shall be substituted the words “ paragraphs 9A ”;\n(b) after paragraph 8 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“ Bereavement Premium\n9A (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the condition is that the claimant—\n(a) had, as at 9th April 2001, attained the age of 55 but not the age of 60;\n(b) was in receipt of, but is no longer entitled to, a bereavement allowance under section 39B of the Benefits Act in respect of the death of a spouse who died on or after 9th April 2001; and\n(c) is claiming a jobseeker’s allowance as a single claimant.\n(2) A premium under sub-paragraph (1) shall not be applicable in respect of a claimant who claims a jobseeker’s allowance more than 8 weeks after the last day on which he was entitled to a bereavement allowance.\n(3) Where a claimant to whom a premium under sub-paragraph (1) is applicable, ceases to be entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or to be a single claimant, a premium under sub-paragraph (1) shall only again be applicable to that claimant where he claims a jobseeker’s allowance as a single claimant no more than 8 weeks after the date on which he ceased to be entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or to income support or, as the case may be, to be a single claimant.”;\n(c) immediately before sub-paragraph (2) in the table in paragraph 20 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph respectively in each column—\n“\n(1A)Bereavement Premium.\n(1A)£15.30.\n”.\n(3) After sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 17 of Schedule 7 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—\n“(d) any widowed mother’s allowance paid pursuant to section 37 of the Benefits Act;\n(e) any widowed parent’s allowance paid pursuant to section 39A of the Benefits Act.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Paragraph 5 was amended by S.I. 1996/1803."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2239/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:39:51.343569+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."
}