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The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

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Regulation 86C

[F1SCHEDULE 5AAPPLICABLE AMOUNTS OF JOINT-CLAIM COUPLES IN SPECIAL CASES

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Sch. 5A: sums confirmed (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with art. 1(2)(k)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/632), arts. 1(2)(k)(ii), 24(9), Sch. 18

C2Sch. 5A para. 3: sum maintained (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/457), arts. 1(2)(h), 19(1)(8), Sch. 12

Column (1)Column (2)

Patients

F21.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F21.  . . .

F31A.  . . .

F31A.  . . .

Joint-Claim Couple Without Accommodation

2.  A joint-claim couple who are without accommodation.

2.  The amount applicable to the couple under regulation 86A(a) (personal allowance) only.

Members of Religious Orders

3.  A joint-claim couple who are both members of and fully maintained by a religious order.

3.  Nil.

Specified Cases of Temporarily Separated Joint-Claim Couples

4.  A joint-claim couple who are temporarily separated where—

(a)one member is—

[F4(i)not a patient but is residing in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital, or]

(iii)resident in premises used for the rehabilitation of alcoholics or drug addicts;

(iv)resident in accommodation provided under section 3 of, and Part II of the Schedule to, the Polish Resettlement Act 1947 (provision of accommodation in camps);

(v)participating in arrangements for training made under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973, or section 2 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 or participating in an employment rehabilitation programme established under that section of the Act of 1973, where the course requires him to live away from the dwelling occupied as the home; or

(vi)in a probation or bail hostel approved for the purpose by the Secretary of State, and

(b)the other member is—

(i)living in the dwelling occupied as the home;

(ii)a patient;

[F5(iii)residing in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital.]

(iv)resident in a residential care home or nursing home.

4.  Either—

(a)the amount applicable to the joint-claim couple under regulation 86A; or

(b)the aggregate of the applicable amounts of both claimants assessed under the provisions of these Regulations as if each of them were a single claimant,

whichever is the greater.

Polygamous Marriages where one or more members of the marriage are temporarily separated

5.  A joint-claim couple where one member is a member of a polygamous marriage and is temporarily separated from a partner of his, where one of them is living in the home while the other member is—

[F6(a)not a patient but is residing in a care home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital, or]

(c)resident in premises used for the rehabilitation of alcoholics or drug addicts;

(d)attending a course of training or instruction provided or approved by the Secretary of State where the course requires him to live away from home; or

(e)in a probation or bail hostel approved for the purpose by the Secretary of State.

5.  Either—

(a)the amount applicable to the joint-claim couple under regulation 86B; or

(b)the aggregate of the amount applicable for the joint-claim couple in respect of the members of the polygamous marriage who remain in the home under regulation 86B and the amount applicable in respect of those members not in the home calculated as if each of them were a single claimant, whichever is the greater.

Joint-claim couples and members of polygamous marriages where one member is, or all are, temporarily in local authority accommodation

F76.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F76.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Joint-claim couples where one member is absent from the United Kingdom

7.  A joint-claim couple where one member is temporarily absent from the United Kingdom—

(a)in the circumstances prescribed in regulation 50(6B);

(b)in any other circumstances.

7.(a) The amount applicable to them as a couple under regulation 86AF8... for the relevant period prescribed in regulation 50(6B).

(b)For the first four weeks of that absence, the amount applicable to them as a couple under regulation 86AF8... as the case may be and thereafter the amount applicable to the claimant in Great Britain under regulation 83F8... as the case may be as if that claimant were a single claimant.

Polygamous marriages where any member of the marriage is abroad

8.  A joint-claim couple where one member is a member of a polygamous marriage and—

(a)he, the other member or one of his partners is;

(b)he, the other member and one or more of his partners are; or

(c)the other member and one or more of his partners or two or more of his partners are,

temporarily absent from the United Kingdom.

8.  For the first four weeks of that absence, the amount applicable to the joint-claim couple under regulations 86B to [F986C], as the case may be, and thereafter, if the joint-claim couple are in Great Britain the amount applicable to them under regulations 86B to [F986C], as the case may be, as if any member of the polygamous marriage not in the United Kingdom were not a member of the marriage.

Members of joint-claim couples in residential accommodation

F109.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F10. . .

Members of joint-claim couples temporarily absent from a hostel, residential care or nursing home

F1110.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F11. . .

Members of joint-claim couples in residential care or nursing homes who become patients

F1111.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F11. . .

Textual Amendments

F2Sch. 5A para. 1 omitted (for specified purposes and with effect in accordance with reg. 1(d) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3360), reg. 6(6)(a)

F3Words in Sch. 5A omitted (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(6) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/719), regs. 1(6), 3(10)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C3Sch. 5A para. 3: sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(l)(ii) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/780), arts. 1(2)(l)(ii), 25(8), Sch. 16

C4Sch. 5A para. 3: sum confirmed (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(k) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/260), arts. 1(2)(k), 24(1)(8), Sch. 12

Rounding of Fractions

12.  Where any calculation under this Schedule or as a result of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance being awarded for a period of less than one complete benefit week results in a fraction of a penny, that fraction shall be treated as a penny.]

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C5Sch. 5A para. 3: 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

C6Sch. 5A para. 3: sum maintained (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)(h) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/516), arts. 1(2)(h), 19(1)(8), Sch. 12

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