SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Supplementary Provisions

F1 Continuity of claims and awards: persons ceasing to be a joint-claim couple

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(1)

Regulations may make provision about the entitlement to a jobseeker’s allowance of persons (“ex-members”) who cease to be members of a joint-claim couple.

(2)

Regulations under this paragraph may, in particular, provide—

(a)

for treating each or either of the ex-members as having made any claim made by the couple or, alternatively, for any such claim to lapse;

(b)

for any award made in respect of the couple to be replaced by an award (a “replacement award") in respect of each or either of the ex-members of the couple or, alternatively, for any such award to lapse.