The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

[F1 The amount of a reduction under section 19 and 19A and regulation 69B

70.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the amount of a reduction under section 19 or 19A or regulation 69B is—

(a) 100% of the allowance payable to the claimant; or

(b) in the case of a joint-claim couple—

(i) 100% of the allowance payable to the couple, where the reduction relates to a sanctionable failure by each member of the couple, or

(ii) an amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (3), where the reduction relates to a sanctionable failure by only one member of the couple.

(2) In a case where the following circumstances apply —

(a) a claimant’s award is already reduced in accordance with section 19 or 19A or regulation 69B; or

(b) in the case of a joint-claim couple, an award of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is already reduced in accordance with section 19 or 19A or regulation 69B as a result of a sanctionable failure by one or each member of the couple and the current sanctionable failure is by the same claimant,

no reduction is to be made for any days when those circumstances apply.

(3) The amount referred to in paragraph (1)(b)(ii) is such amount which, after its deduction from the full amount of the award of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance, leaves the following amount—

(a) in any case in which the member of the couple, who is not the member whose sanctionable failure led to the reduction, satisfies the conditions set out in section 2 of the Act (contribution based conditions), a rate equal to the amount calculated in accordance with section 4(1) (amount payable by way of a jobseeker’s allowance);

(b) in any case where the couple are a couple in hardship for the purposes of Part IXA, a rate equal to the amount calculated in accordance with regulation 146G (applicable amount in hardship cases for joint-claim couples);

(c) in any other case, a rate calculated in accordance with section 4(3A) (amount payable by way of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance) save that the applicable amount shall be the amount determined by reference to paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1 which would have been the applicable amount had the member of the couple who is not subject to sanctions been a single claimant.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 70 substituted (22.10.2012) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Sanctions) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2568), regs. 1(1), 2(3)