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Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations

6.  In the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1)—

(a)after paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

4A.  Where the claimant is a member of a joint-claim couple for the purposes of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and his partner is on an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, the whole of the claimant’s income.;

(b)after paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 (capital to be disregarded), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

5A.  Where the claimant is a member of a joint-claim couple for the purposes of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and his partner is on an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, the whole of the claimant’s capital..