Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations3

In regulation 8A(5) of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 197520 (credits for unemployment)—

a

after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

cc

a week in respect of which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance was not payable or was reduced pursuant to Article 22A of that Order (denial or reduction of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance) because the person was subject to sanctions for the purposes of that Article, even though the couple of which he was a member satisfied the conditions for entitlement to that allowance;

b

after sub-paragraph (d) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

dd

a week in respect of which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance was payable in respect of a joint-claim couple of which the person is a member only by virtue of regulation 146C21 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable where a joint-claim couple is a couple in hardship);