The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I GENERAL

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

   2. 2. Disqualification period

3. PART II REDUCTIONS

   1. 3. Reduction of income support

   2. 4. Reduction of joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance

4. PART III HARDSHIP

   1. 5. Meaning of “person in hardship”

   2. 6. Circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person who is a person in hardship

   3. 7. Further circumstances in which an income-based jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a person who is a person in hardship

   4. 8. Conditions for payment of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance

   5. 9. Provision of information

   6. 10. Applicable amount in hardship cases

5. PART IV HARDSHIP FOR JOINT-CLAIM COUPLES

   1. 11. Application of Part and meaning of “couple in hardship”

   2. 12. Circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable where a joint-claim couple is a couple in hardship

   3. 13. Further circumstances in which a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance is payable to a couple in hardship

   4. 14. Conditions for payment of a joint-claim jobseeker’s allowance

   5. 15. Provision of information

   6. 16. Applicable amount of joint-claim couple in hardship cases

6. PART V HOUSING BENEFIT

   1. 17. Circumstances where a reduced amount of housing benefit is payable

   2. 18. Circumstances where housing benefit is payable

7. PART VI DEDUCTIONS FROM BENEFITS AND DISQUALIFYING BENEFITS

   1. 19. Social security benefits not to be sanctionable benefits

   2. 20. Deductions from benefits

8. PART VII OTHER AMENDMENTS

   1. 21. Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations

9. Signature

10. Explanatory Note