[F1Applicable amount in hardship cases for joint-claim couples
146G.—[F2(1) The weekly applicable amount of the joint-claim couple to whom a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable in accordance with this Part of these Regulations shall be reduced by a sum equivalent to—
(a)20% of the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 1 in a case where a member of a joint-claim couple is—
(i)either pregnant or seriously ill, or
(ii)a member of a polygamous marriage and one of the members of that marriage is pregnant or seriously ill, or
(b)40% of the amount specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 1 in all other cases.]
(2) A reduction under paragraph (1) shall, if it is not a multiple of 5p, be rounded to the nearest such multiple or, if it is a multiple of 2.5p but not of 5p, to the next lower multiple of 5p.]
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 9A inserted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), regs. 1(1), 2(3)
F2Reg. 146G(1) substituted (13.4.2010) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/641), regs. 1(4)(b), 4(11)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Regs. 146E-146H modified (22.11.2010) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Work for Your Benefit Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1222), regs. 1(2), 11
C2Reg. 146G(1): sum maintained (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(j)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/574), art. 1(2)(j)(ii), Sch. 12