Amount of extended reduction (qualifying contributory benefits): persons who are not pensioners
41.—(1) For any week during the extended reduction period the amount of the extended reduction (qualifying contributory benefits) payable to an applicant is to be the greater of the amount of reduction under an authority’s scheme —
(a)to which the applicant was entitled by virtue of falling within class C or D in the last reduction week before the applicant or the applicant’s partner ceased to be entitled to a qualifying contributory benefit;
(b)to which the applicant would be entitled by virtue of falling within class C or D for any reduction week during the extended reduction period, if paragraph 39 (extended reductions (qualifying contributory benefits): persons who are not pensioners) did not apply to the applicant; or
(c)to which the applicant’s partner would be entitled by virtue of falling within class C or D, if paragraph 39 did not apply to the applicant.
(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply in the case of a mover.
(3) Where an applicant is in receipt of an extended reduction (qualifying contributory benefits) under this paragraph and the applicant’s partner makes an application for a reduction under an authority’s scheme, no amount of reduction is to be allowed by the appropriate authority during the extended reduction period.