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38.—(1) Regulation 62 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations (time and manner in which claims are to be made) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (4) in sub-paragraphs (a) and (c) after the words “income support” in each place where they occur there shall be inserted the words “or a jobseeker’s allowance”.
(3) In paragraph (5)—
(a)for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(a)in a case where an award of income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance has been made to the claimant or his partner and the claim for council tax benefit is made within 4 weeks of the date on which the claim for that income support or jobseeker’s allowance was received at the appropriate social security office, the first day of entitlement to income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance arising from that claim; and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph a person who has an award entitling him to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance shall be treated as also entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance for any days which immediately precede the first day in that award and on which in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Jobseekers Act 1995 (waiting days) he would not be entitled to that allowance;”;
(b)in sub-paragraph (b)—
(i)after the words “claimed income support” there shall be inserted the words “or a jobseeker’s allowance”; and
(ii)after the words “entitlement to income support” there shall be inserted the words “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”; and
(c)in sub-paragraph (c) after the words “income support” there shall be inserted the words “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.
(4) In paragraph (15)(a) after the words “income support” there shall be inserted the words “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.
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