The Social Security and Child Support (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Amendment of the Family Credit (General) Regulations

14.—(1) The Family Credit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (6).

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) after the definition of “the Contributions and Benefits Act”(2) there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the Jobseekers Order” means the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;”.

(3) In regulation 6(2)(3) (persons of a prescribed description) after sub-paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

“(aa)who is entitled to income-based jobseeker’s allowance or would, but for Article 5(1)(d) of the Jobseekers Order (provision against dual entitlement of members of family), be so entitled;”.

(4) In regulation 50(4) (prevention of duplication of awards of family credit, disability working allowance and income support) for “or income support” there shall be substituted “, income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.

(5) In Schedule 2 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—

(a)in paragraph 3 after “housing benefit” there shall be inserted “, income-based jobseeker’s allowance”, and

(b)in paragraph 5(b) after “income support” there shall be inserted “or income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.

(6) In Schedule 3 (capital to be disregarded)—

(a)in paragraph 8(b) after “income-related benefit” there shall be inserted “or income-based jobseeker’s allowance,”, and

(b)after paragraph 47(5) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“48.  The amount of any back to work bonus payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance or income support in accordance with Article 28 of the Jobseeker’s Order, or a corresponding payment under section 26 of the Jobseekers Act 1995(6), but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt.”.