Effect of ESA or JSA sanction on escalation of UC sanctionN.I.
3. Where—
(a)a reduction in relation to an award of an employment and support allowance or an award of a jobseeker's allowance is applied to an award of universal credit by virtue of paragraph 1 or 2;
(b)there is a subsequent sanctionable failure under Article 31 or 32 of the Order; and
(c)the failure giving rise to the reduction in relation to the award of an employment and support allowance or a jobseeker's allowance (“the previous failure”) and the reduction period determined for that failure correspond with a failure specified under Article 31 or 32 of the Order to which the same reduction period would apply under Chapter 2 of Part 8 of these Regulations,
for the purposes of determining the reduction period for that subsequent failure, the previous failure is to be treated as if it were the corresponding failure under Article 31 or 32 of the Order