The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Transition from unemployment benefit to a jobseeker’s allowance

6.  In regulation 5 of the Transitional Provisions Regulations (transition from unemployment benefit to a jobseeker’s allowance) for paragraphs (1) and (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(1) In a case where, except where paragraph (1A) applies, in accordance with a notice issued to him under regulation 19 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to, the Claims and Payments Regulations(1) (time for claiming benefit), a person claims unemployment benefit on or after 7th October 1996 but before 20th October 1996, any claim made for unemployment benefit which the claimant is required to make in accordance with that notice—

(a) on a day falling on or after 7th October 1996 but before 13th October 1996 shall be treated also as a claim for a jobseeker’s allowance for a period commencing on, and including, the day after the date of claim and, where an award of unemployment benefit is made and benefit is payable in respect of the relevant day, that award shall be treated also as an award of a jobseeker’s allowance for a period commencing on, and including, the day after the date of claim and continuing until such date as the claimant fails to satisfy, or in respect of which he ceases to be treated as satisfying, any condition of entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance which applies in his case, or

(b) on a day falling on or after 14th October 1996 but before 20th October 1996 shall be treated as a claim for unemployment benefit for the first benefit week falling within the period of that claim and as a claim for a jobseeker’s allowance for the subsequent week and for any week thereafter and, where an award of unemployment benefit is made and benefit is payable in respect of the relevant day in the first benefit week, shall be treated also as an award of a jobseeker’s allowance for the subsequent week and continuing until such date as the claimant fails to satisfy, or in respect of which he ceases to be treated as satisfying, any condition of entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance which applies in his case.

(1A) In a case where, in accordance with a notice issued to him under regulation 19 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to, the Claims and Payments Regulations, a person claims unemployment benefit on a day in the benefit week which includes 7th October 1996, any claim for unemployment benefit which the claimant is required to make in accordance with that notice shall be treated as a claim for unemployment benefit and not for a jobseeker’s allowance for the remaining days of that benefit week.

(2) An award of unemployment benefit—

(a) made in accordance with regulation 17(4)(b) of the Claims and Payments Regulations (duration of awards), or

(b) which is made on or after 7th October 1996 for a period commencing before 7th October 1996,

and which extends beyond the benefit week which includes the relevant day shall terminate at the end of that benefit week.”.

(1)

Regulation 19 was amended by S.R. 1988 No. 141, S.R. 1989 No. 398, S.R. 1991 No. 488 and S.R. 1992 Nos. 7, 83 and 453