4. In Schedule 7 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations M1 (income to be disregarded)—
(a)for paragraph 60, there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“60. Any mandatory top-up payment made to a person pursuant to section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 in respect of that person’s participation in an employment programme specified in—
(a)regulation 75(1)(a)(ii)(aa)(ii) (self-employment route of the Employment Option of the New Deal);
(b)regulation 75(1)(a)(ii)(bb) (Voluntary Sector Option of the New Deal); or
(c)regulation 75(1)(a)(ii)(cc) (Environment Task Force Option of the New Deal).”;
(b)at the end there shall be added the following paragraph—
“62.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), in the case of a person who is receiving, or who has received, assistance under an employment programme specified in regulation 75(1)(a)(ii)(aa)(ii) (self-employment route of the Employment Option of the New Deal), any payment to that person—
(a)to meet expenses wholly and necessarily incurred whilst carrying on the commercial activity;
(b)which is used or intended to be used to maintain repayments on a loan taken out by that person for the purpose of establishing or carrying on the commercial activity,
in respect of which such assistance is or was received.
(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall apply only in respect of payments which are paid to that person from the special account as defined for the purposes of Chapter IVA of Part VIII.”.
Marginal Citations
M1Paragraphs 60 and 61 were inserted by S.I.1997/2863.