SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Universal credit and other working-age benefits

Earnings tapers

5

In section 4 of the Jobseekers Act 1995 (amount payable by way of a jobseeker's allowance), in subsection (1)(b)—

a

after “making” there is inserted—

i

deductions in respect of earnings calculated in the prescribed manner (which may include multiplying some or all earnings by a prescribed percentage), and

ii

b

“earnings,”(before “pension payments“) is repealed.