Regulation 5 Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) RegulationsI1C1

After regulation 30 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987^f1 (payments on death), there shall be inserted the following regulation—

“Payments of arrears of joint-claims jobseeker’s allowance where the nominated person can no longer be traced

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Where—

(a)

an award of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance has been awarded to a joint-claim couple;

(b)

that couple ceases to be a joint-claim couple; and

(c)

the member of the joint-claim couple nominated for the purposes of Article 5B of the Jobseekers Order^f2 cannot be traced,

arrears of the award of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance shall be paid to the other member of the former joint-claim couple.”.