The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Further circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a couple in hardship

13.—(1) This regulation applies to a couple in hardship falling within regulation 11(3) and is subject to the provisions of regulations 14 and 15.

(2) A joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance shall be payable to a couple in hardship even though section 7(2) of the Act prevents payment of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance to the couple or section 7(3) of the Act reduces the amount of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance payable to the couple but the allowance—

(a) shall not be payable under this paragraph in respect of the first 14 days of the prescribed period; and

(b) shall be payable thereafter only where the conditions of entitlement to a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance are satisfied or where one member satisfies those conditions and the other member comes within any paragraph in Schedule A1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (categories of members not required to satisfy conditions in Article 3(2B)(b) of the Order).