The Child Support (Maintenance Calculation Procedure) Regulations 2000

Modification of reduction under a reduced benefit decision to preserve minimum entitlement to relevant benefit

12.  Where in respect of any benefit week the amount of the relevant benefit that would be payable after it has been reduced following a reduced benefit decision would, but for this regulation, be nil or less than the minimum amount of that benefit that is payable as determined—

(a) in the case of income support, by regulation 26(4) of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987;

(b) in the case of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, by regulation 87A of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations(1),

the amount of that reduction shall be decreased to such extent as to raise the amount of that benefit to the minimum amount that is payable.

(1)

S.I. 1996/207; regulation 87A was inserted by S.I. 1996/1517.