{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-4-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2305",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-4-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987",
  "text": "(1) The Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraph.\n(2) In Schedule 3 (housing costs)—\n(a) after paragraph 1 the following paragraph shall be inserted—\n“Previous entitlement to income-based jobseeker’s allowance\n1A (1) Where a claimant or his partner was in receipt of or was treated as being in receipt of income-based jobseeker’s allowance not more than 12 weeks before one of them becomes entitled to income support or, where the claimant or his partner is a person to whom paragraph 14(2) or (8) (linking rules) refers, not more than 26 weeks before becoming so entitled and—\n(a) the applicable amount for that allowance included an amount in respect of housing costs under paragraph 14 or 15 of Schedule 2 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996; and\n(b) the circumstances affecting the calculation of those housing costs remain unchanged since the last calculation of those costs,\nthe applicable amount in respect of housing costs for income support shall be the applicable amount in respect of those costs current when entitlement to income-based jobseeker’s allowance was last determined.\n(2) Where, in the period since housing costs were last calculated for income-based jobseeker’s allowance, there has been a change of circumstances, other than a reduction in the amount of an outstanding loan, which increases or reduces those costs, the amount to be met under this Schedule shall, for the purposes of the claim for income support, be recalculated so as to take account of that change.”;\n(b) in paragraph 6(1A) (existing housing costs) after the words “sub-paragraph (1)” there shall be inserted the words “and subject to sub-paragraph (1B)”;\n(c) after paragraph 6(1A) the following sub-paragraph shall be inserted—\n“(1B) Where a claimant or his partner ceases to be in receipt of or treated as being in receipt of income-based jobseeker’s allowance and one of them becomes entitled to income support in a case to which paragraph 1A applies, the eligible capital for the time being owing shall be recalculated on each anniversary of the date on which the housing costs were first met for whichever of the benefits concerned the claimant or his partner was first entitled.”;\n(d) in paragraph 8(1A) (new housing costs) after the words “sub-paragraph (1)” there shall be inserted the words “and subject to sub-paragraph (1B),”;\n(e) after paragraph 8(1A) the following sub-paragraph shall be inserted—\n“(1B) Where a claimant or his partner ceases to be in receipt of or treated as being in receipt of income-based jobseeker’s allowance and one of them becomes entitled to income support in a case to which paragraph 1A applies, the eligible capital for the time being owing shall be recalculated on each anniversary of the date on which the housing costs were first met for whichever of the benefits concerned the claimant or his partner was first entitled.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1967; relevant amending instruments S.I. 1995/1613 and 2927."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Schedule 3 was substituted by S.I. 1995/1613."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Paragraph 6(1A) was inserted in Schedule 3 by S.I. 1995/2927."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Paragraph 8(1A) was inserted in Schedule 3 by S.I. 1995/2927."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2305/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:51:17.824382+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."
}