The Employment and Support Allowance (Exempt Work & Hardship Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 No. 205

PART 2Hardship Amounts

Amendment of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008

5. In regulation 64D of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008(1) (the amount of a hardship payment) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) A hardship payment is either—

(a)80% of the prescribed amount for a single claimant as set out in paragraph (1)(a) of Part 1 of Schedule 4(2) where—

(i)the claimant has an award of employment and support allowance which does not include entitlement to a work-related activity component under section 4(2)(b) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 as in force immediately before 3rd April 2017; and

(ii)the claimant or any other member of their family is either pregnant or seriously ill; or

(b)60% of the prescribed amount for a single claimant as set out in paragraph (1)(a) of Part 1 of Schedule 4 in any other case.”.

(1)

Regulation 64D inserted by S.I. 2012/2756.

(2)

Part 1 of Schedule 4 was substituted by Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2013/574. The figures in paragraph 1(a) were substituted by Welfare Benefits Up-rating Order 2015/30.