The Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and Supply of Information (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996

Amendment of regulation 2 of the Supply of Information Regulations

52.—(1) Regulation 2 of the Supply of Information Regulations (information to be supplied by the Secretary of State to an authority)(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a) in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) after the words “income support” in each place where they occur there shall be inserted the words “or a jobseeker’s allowance”;

(b) in sub-paragraphs (d) to (f), (l) and (m), after the words “income support” in each place where they occur there shall be inserted the words “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”;

(c) in sub-paragraphs (g) to (j), after the words “income support” in each place where they occur there shall be inserted the words “or is a person on an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”;

(d) after sub-paragraph (s) there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs—

“(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 Act 1995 (waiting days) applies;

(u) in the case of a claimant on whom a sanction is imposed under section 19 of the Jobseekers Act 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.”.

(3) In paragraph (2) after the words “income support” there shall be inserted the words “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.

(4) After paragraph (2), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a person is on an income-based jobseeker’s allowance on any day in respect of which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to him and on any day—

(a) in respect of which he satisfies the conditions for entitlement to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance but where the allowance is not paid in accordance with section 19 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (circumstances in which a jobseeker’s allowance is not payable); or

(b) which is a waiting day for the purposes of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to that Act and which falls immediately before a day in respect of which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to him or would be payable to him but for section 19 of that Act.”.

(1)

Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/1843, 1992/432, 1994/1925 and 2137, 1995/626 and 1996/194.