F1SCHEDULE 1ACIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH A PERSON AGED 16 OR 17 IS ELIGIBLE FOR INCOME SUPPORT

PART IPERS0NS ELIGIBLE UNTIL 18

1.

A person who is not required to be available for employment under any of the following paragraphs of Schedule 1 (persons not required to be available for employment)–

paragraph 1

(lone parents)

paragraph 2

(single persons looking after foster children)

paragraph 3

(persons temporarily looking after another person)

paragraph 4

(persons caring for another person)

paragraph 8

(blind persons)

paragraph 9

(pregnancy)

paragraph 10

(persons in education)

paragraph 11

(training allowances)

paragraph 16

(refugees)

paragraph 20

(persons from abroad).

paragraph 22

(member of couple looking after children while other member temporarily abroad).

2.

A person who is incapable of work and training under the youth training scheme, by reason of some disease or bodily or mental disablement if, in the opinion of a medical practitioner, that incapacity is unlikely to end within 12 months because of the severity of that disease or disablement.

3.

A person who is a member of a couple and is treated as responsible for a child who is a member of his household.

4.

A person who is temporarily laid off employment and is available to be re-engaged in that employment.