Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999

This section has no associated Explanatory Notes

11In section 17 (reduction of allowance payable to young persons), after subsection (1) insert—

(1A)Regulations may provide for the amount of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance payable in respect of any joint-claim couple where a member of the couple is a young person to whom this section applies to be reduced—

(a)in such circumstances,

(b)by such a percentage, and

(c)for such a period,

as may be prescribed.