The Housing Benefit (General and Supply of Information) (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

• “the benefit Acts” means the Contributions and Benefits Act and the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;

• “an income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 by virtue of Article 3(4) of that Order;

e

where the claimant has also claimed a jobseeker’s allowance, the amount of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance to which he would have been entitled in respect of the benefit week to which paragraph (2) refers but for the application of regulation 113 of the Jobseekers Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (notional capital);

e

if the claimant would, but for regulation 113 of the Jobseekers Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996, have been entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance in respect of the benefit week, within the meaning of regulation 2 of those Regulations (interpretation), which includes the last day of the relevant week, the amount to which he would have been entitled and, for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, if the amount is in respect of a part-week, that amount shall be determined by dividing the amount of the income-based jobseeker’s allowance to which he would have been so entitled by the number equal to the number of days in the part-week and multiplying the quotient so obtained by 7.

a

in a case where an award of income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance has been made to the claimant or his partner and the claim for housing benefit is made within 4 weeks of the date on which the claim for that income support or jobseeker’s allowance was received at the appropriate office, the first day of entitlement to income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance arising from that claim; and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph a person who has an award entitling him to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance shall be treated as also entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance for any days which immediately precede the first day in that award and on which in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (waiting days) he would not be entitled to that allowance;

2

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), an addition to a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance under regulation 9(4) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 shall be treated as an increase of a benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act arising under Part IV of that Act.

e

that the claimant had been entitled to and in receipt of income support or a jobseeker’s allowance for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks until the relevant day in any of, or any combination of, the circumstances set out at sub-paragraph (c), and for the purpose of this sub-paragraph—

i

any period of entitlement to and receipt of unemployment benefit shall be taken to be entitlement to and receipt of income support, and

ii

for the avoidance of doubt a claimant satisfies the conditions of this sub-paragraph if he has been entitled to and in receipt of income support for at least 26 weeks, or a jobseeker’s allowance for at least 26 weeks, or a combination of income support and a jobseeker’s allowance for at least 26 weeks.

t

in the case of a claimant entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, details of any days falling immediately before that entitlement to which paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (waiting days) applies;

u

in the case of a claimant on whom a sanction is imposed under Article 19 of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, details of any period covered by the sanction in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance would be payable to him but for the sanction.