The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

[F1Period when a person is not a person in hardship

140A.—[F2(1) A claimant who is not a person in hardship by virtue of regulation 140(4A) shall not be a person in hardship throughout the period beginning on the day on which a New Deal decision has effect by virtue of regulation 69 or, as the case may be, by virtue of regulation 7(8) of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 and ending—

(a)on the last day on which he is required to participate in a New Deal option [F3or in the Intensive Activity Period specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(iv)] [F4or in the Flexible New Deal]; or

(b)on the day which is 14 days after the day on which the New Deal decision had effect,

whichever is the later.]

(2) Where a claimant who is not a person in hardship by virtue of regulation 140(4A) was a person in hardship for the purposes of regulation 142 immediately before the commencement of the period referred to in paragraph (1), that claimant shall, subject to paragraph (3), again become a person in hardship for the purposes of regulation 142 on the day following the expiration of that period.

(3) A claimant to whom paragraph (2) applies shall not again become a person in hardship for the purposes of regulation 142 if—

(a)the day following the day the period referred to in paragraph (1) expires is a day within a period in respect of which a subsequent New Deal decision applies by virtue of paragraph (1); or

(b)on the day following the expiry of the period referred to in paragraph (1), he is not a person in hardship for the purposes of regulation 142.]

[F5(4) In this regulation, “New Deal decision” means a decision that section 19(5)(b) or (c) applies by virtue of an act or omission relating to one of the New Deal options] [F6or to the Intensive Activity Period specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(iv)] [F7or to the Flexible New Deal.]

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