Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order provides that, for the purposes of Part I of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4) and the Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18) and of the subordinate legislation specified in the Schedule to the Order, a person using facilities provided in pursuance of the employment programme known as “the New Deal for Lone Parents self-employment route”and receiving or entitled to receive in connection with the use of those facilities a top-up payment or assistance with the expenses of participation or both shall be treated as being in receipt of a training allowance for the purposes of the remunerative work rule in income support and as in receipt of a training premium for all other purposes.
The effect of the Order is that receipt of the top-up payment and expenses by a person using those facilities does not affect his entitlement to income support or the amount of income support he is entitled to.
This Order does not impose any charge on business.