The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996

Circumstances in which a person is liable to meet housing costs

2.—(1) A person is liable to meet housing costs where–

(a) the liability falls upon him or his partner [F1 or, where that person is a member of a joint-claim couple, the other member of that couple,] but not where the liability is to a member of the same household as the person on whom the liability falls;

(b) because the person liable to meet the housing costs [F2 is not meeting them], the claimant has to meet those costs in order to continue to live in the dwelling occupied as the home and it is reasonable in all the circumstances to treat the claimant as liable to meet those costs;

(c) he in practice shares the housing costs with other members of the household none of whom are close relatives either of the claimant or his partner, [F1 or, where that person is a member of a joint-claim couple, the other member of that couple,] and

(i) one or more of those members is liable to meet those costs, and

(ii) it is reasonable in the circumstances to treat him as sharing responsibility.

(2) Where any one or more, but not all, members of the claimant’s family are affected by a trade dispute, the housing costs shall be treated as wholly the responsibility of those members of the family not so affected.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(a)(c) inserted (19.3.2001) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Joint Claims) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1978), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 54(3)

F2 Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(b) substituted (7.10.1996) by The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1516), reg. 1(1), Sch. Pt. 2